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Show cxj REVIEW OF THE WAR On Friday, according to German report, re-port, tbe Kaiser's forces captured over 700 French soldiers and many guns in what is known as the Argonne region. re-gion. This Is the fourth or fifth Similar report of heavy capture of Frenob troopa, a if true- means that the Germans are working well down io the east of Verdun and are threatening to isolate that great series of fortifications constructed to keep back the Teuton Invasion from tha Rhiue provinces. The French official announcements do not contradict the German statements state-ments and the silence is somewhat g confirmation. Near Soissons which further Weil in northern France, the Germans Ger-mans have worked down to the Aisno river. La Bassee, still further west and on the frontier of France and Belgi' in the" hotel I V am, the Kaiser's troops have taken; trenches from the British. This all Indicates cre'nt strength on ihe part of the Teutons. At no point since the first of the yrvr have the allies made any considerable con-siderable headway, except In Alsace and tbe advances there have been checked. Xo one at this distance from the conflict., with piecemeal information cominc .through censors, can form any clear idea of the situation. There are a numtoer of reasons why the allies al-lies should' not press their offensive at this time, except to keep the Germans Ger-mans at all points thoroughly engaged to prevent a shifting and concentrating concentrat-ing of army corps, and still the defensive defen-sive of the French and British should be powerful enough to turn any German Ger-man offensive into utter failure. At present no one, not in the confidence con-fidence of the military headquarters of the warring nations, can forecast the outcome, but by May or June, after Kitchener's two million men are in the field, we may expect the allies to demonstrate their strength. At that time, if they fail to make prog ress. the nations can look forward to a struggle extending over a long period. on |
