Show OF MONT S UNDONE BY FOGH STRATEGY OF ALLIED LEADER TURNS TABLES ON THE GERMAN HOSTS wrests the initiative in operations operation from the huns huna and obliges them to order retreat or suffer s terrible losses loises parts alaris abe situation since the brittle brittie of the avre shows allows a change which 1 for rapidity and extent ls has rarely been approached in military history n marshal focha strategy will and the inua inas terly tactics have lit in three weeks wrested from tho the what required four months for them to obtain t tit nt n cost variously estimated at front from to inell tho the results of the coun ter er which will hill havo tho greatest hearing bearing on oil subsequent operations are the clearing of tile tho chateau SitI erry pocket ending tile tho menace to Bp ernay tind paris the liberation of Moril dIdler ending tile menace to Ain amlene lens the freeing ol of the alio important eastern railroad line from froin paris to chalons fin tind tho equally important northern line froin parts paris to akiens amiens restoring to tho allies nelles means of communication muti muni cation leation which give thein enormously y greater ease jn ili future movements of troops these successes render impossible any rupture of the line lit which would the french anniles of tile center from froin those to tile tho cast or a rupture of tho the junction between beten ellb french and british the most disastrous consequence to the germans inana aside front from tho the heavy losses they BUS stained in fit men anil and material Is tile collapse of their plan to drive wedges into tile allied lines nil and tho the subsequent widening and joining which would have threatened general dislocation j initiative wrested away marshal iochi strategy lit in reducing the he salient wedges wrested the initiative in operations from froin tho the Geri germans nans nt fit once obliging them either to order gendral gen cral retreat to it strong line such us as lie file domine So mine or to engage reserves tho enemy adopted tho second alternative which having failed makes i eventual retirement linin immensely ensely more inore difficult tho the first phase of tho the battle of the avro finds the french with it footing upon escourt plateau west aest of no yon which ann vital importance lit in future operations the ler inaus must cither capture at high cost it if lio lie can or abandon noyon boyon which means tile full fall of and which at read yare under imminent menace of tho al which ine paced general von on army lilt been averted for tho the the few narrow pas tinges which now are open for tile the withdrawal of ills his stores are so fco liar far assed by tile bombs of avin ti enters aviators tors and the fire of heavy artillery that alint prompt escape Is impossible rendering proba blo tt a desperate desper nto effort by the lie germans to cling to their 1014 lines |