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Show REVIEW OF THE WAR. There is a lull on the western battle bat-tle front, which is accepted by our military men in Washington and the British generals as marking a most Important Im-portant check to the Germans. At no point on the lines in Ficardy or around Ypres have the Teutons gone forward since Thursday, except east of Givcnchy, and there they were thrown back on Friday This is encouraging news, but not wholly reassuring. Have you read of the storms which have reduced the fighting area to quagmires' In all the low-lying country, the mud is so deep 'that the moving of artillery must be an almost Impossible task. What effect has this condition had on the two contending armies? Natur ally the aggressors are In a deplorable plight They cannot go forward or move backward They are caught in a trap and no doubt are being cut down Their losses must be stagger- Ing. If the British and French, taking ; full advantage of this condition, are ! in position to keep up the slaughter, tens of thousands of Germans will never nev-er leave the mud flats into which they have mired Then, bv the tine the roads dr so that artillery once more can be drawn Into the battle lines it may be possible for the allies to permanently per-manently hold and finally defeat the troops of Hindenburg. But, let us speculate a little. Suppose Sup-pose the mud, and not the allied guns, have stopped the enemy, what is to be expected when fair weather returns? Why, there will be a realigning of the big guns. Reorganized divisions will appear Another earth-shaking roar of artillery will start, and then will come the clash that, in our opinion, will de-1 cide the fate of nations If the Germans Ger-mans cannot then break through, the hand of death will be upon them. Germany must go through to Calais this spring or yield up to despair, for gradually the t'nited Stales is moving mov-ing in and eventually this country will he capable of hitting the fatal blow. |