Show LOOK FOB ALLIED DRIVE EXPECT GEN FOCH TO BEGIN OFFENSIVE SOON WITH TROOPS OF SEVEN NATIONS strenuous efforts being made to get american troops overseas in time to share fully in battles this summer er washington events on oil the ilie western battle fr front ont tire are shaping n g t sel es offic officers ars 1 libie I believe li not 0 to only for defeat 11 of the german drive but for it a counteroffensive counter offensive by general 1 l kochs fochs armies that may ina y open the road to an all allied victory A wave of opahl optimism asin lias has swept siept over not only american officials hut but also the military nien of the allied missions in washington some of them thein think it will be some days yet before general leral foch can complete ills troop dispositions for a great thrust tit at the enemy but othe others rs look for word unit that lie inis ims struck any tinie time hun drive Is defeated the news front from the battle front was distinctly cheering tile the lines in the hard stricken flanders front were holding li firmly french reinforcements for cements bad arrived there ina making ing practically certain that the german germa 1 I drive toward the channel ports fro from that direction lias has been defeated at the same baine time official announcement came front from rome that ital italian lail troops were already pouring into france to share tit in tile crucial struggle there tills this added to the optimism for tt it means t harthe fighting binl men it of france italy great britain america belgium portugal gil tin anil the itus aan units tire are being massed under one le beul er for a mighty blow when ahe time thile coin comes LA s americans do their part there there are now many indications of increased pressure toward getting american troops overseas in time ifill to share fully in tile the battles tills this su summer linner upon which may anity rest tile issue it is rumored that henry ford may inny be selected to handle airplane production much in tile the way that charles AL schwab lias has been placed in fit diange iiara of shili building |