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Show SMASHING HINDENBURG H UNE. 9 Gradually tho British and French are making the Hindenburg lino unten- Hf able. They are hammering west of Cambral and south and north oC St. Quentin, with a bright promise of suc- Yesterday on ihe Cambrai front the British look S00O prisoners. This in-dicates in-dicates both a desperate resistance and a sudden breaking of the defense. Our Qpinion is the Germans are in distress on all the line from Cambrai to St. Quentin and that any day now wo may hear of a collapse of the enc-my enc-my front with a retreat to the "Par--Jfal" line, which, if .it occurs, will place Ludendorff in much tho same position as was Haig when the Brit-ish Brit-ish were fighting with their backs to the wall. Foch's strategy is working well. The H. generalissimo has his troops from Flanders to Serbia, harassing, bleed-ing, bleed-ing, destroying the enemy. Just as Ludendorff begins to lake a firm hold Hl on the Hindenburg line, there comes the threat of a big American offen-sive, offen-sive, either at Molz or on the hcad-waters hcad-waters of the Rhine, and the German Hj general staff must be sorely perplexed in planning to hold on at one point Hl while striving to prevent a disaster elsewhere. When the Americans begin lo move over the Vosges mountains, he Slandard cxpccls an official bulle- j tin from Berlin, laconically announce "We have taken up new positions In northern France." I The one most important move for Germany at present is to guard against the Americans carrying the war to Germany, and rather, than yiejd to the Yankees west of Mulhausen or Mctz, Ludendorff and Hindenburg would order or-der a retirement from in front of- the British and French. |