Show ALLIES CONFIDENT OF HOLDING LINE AMERICAN ARMY WILL NOT BE NEEDED AT PRESENT IT HAS BEEN DECIDED strategy of general foch seems fully justified by the enormous price the huns have paid for the ground they have gained ottawa so confident Is the entente of its ability to withstand any drive the germans can launch that it has been decided not to use the american army until it becomes a complete and powerful force according to n cable sum mary of operations on the western front received here sunday from the war commission of the british cabinet the position now Is said the sum mary that the germans determined to concentrate every available unit on one enormous offensive are draining their country dry to force a decision before it Is too late alie entente are so confident that having been div en the choice of a small immediate am erlean army for defense or walten till they are reinforced by a complete powerful self supporting american army aliey have chosen the latter germans suffer heavy losses to the sledgehammer sledge hammer uses of mass es of men by the enemy the allies are opposing the strategy of meeting the blow with the smallest force capable of standing up to the chock while keeping the strongest reserve possible troops on the wings are permitted to belve ground within limits wherever the cuemy ins been made to pay n greater price than the ground Is worth the whole aim being to reduce the enemy to such a state of exhaustion that our at the right moment can restore the situation in the present operations the sum enry adds the british army has withstood many times its own weight of enemy masses it has retired slowly exacting the fullest price mean n alle foch holds the bulk of the french tn reserve sending units only to points hard pressed this strategy has justified itself in that in three weeks it has seen the enemy brought ta a stand still without a single strategic objective being fulfilled and with losses so am mense that his reserve Is in danger of proving inadequate to his policy kaiser forced to call halt the german commander seeing how nearly he is delivering himself to the reserve has been compelled to accept temporarily failure and call n halt ills position Is tactically ex posed to two dangerous salientes on waterlogged ground his countrymen ore dangerously dissatisfied at the am anene price paid for his failure to terminate their sufferings his allies are on the verge of surrendering and dally exhibit their growing dislike and distrust of the taskmaster who robs them of their lives and food the allies may have complete con in the result for the enemy alie issue Is a desperate endeavor to avoid defeat for the allies the issue Is only that of victory deferred |