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new tanks and the new American I contingents. Now, when a force oses thus it fills the gaps by recruit lent

, from depots, and these depots in l urn are fed from two sources, nan I -sly.

v Bombs Says the Chicago Tribune: Bomb throwers are not inspired by the law abiding majority. The person who dropped explosives in the post office, killing four citizens and injuring thirty who were in no wise immediately concerned save in that they were respectable, orderly, and patriotic, may or may not have been of the I. W. W. may or may not have been of the dull witted, vengeful pro-enemy type. But it is certain he drew solace and comfort and perverted inspiration from the bombast of those who

rant against the government. Types of men who are prone to self-pity and mock heroics readily fall under the spell of demagogy. Unholy, whispered conferences in the. shroud of night, safe from the ears of honest men, are tokens of I. W. VV. ingenuity. They take fortitude in a veneer of citizenship, a mantle denied the known enemy, and forthwith assail the right of the majority to promote the common welfare. But their intrigues are no less venomous, their violence no less treasonable, and their propaganda no less insidious than the most smoothly concocted draught of enemy poison. Evidence i3 neither direct nor abundant that the I. W. W. conspired to wreck and slay in the Chicago postoffice. What precise rules of violence are laid down for the guidance of the I. W. W. we have no means of knowing, if, indeed there be such. But the weak mind needs no specifications. It is enough to affect his suggestible men

tality with grandiose visions. Neither need this be direct preachment, but only, the gak of discontent sprayed about by demagogues.

Sowers of 'sedition might almost be pardoned j SS their tratorious occupations were they publicly i f d recruits who have just ;inr - i ished their Drelitninnrv drilling '.She

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placarded as such and as such sell -ad vertised, tm they sometimes are to be found occupying places of public, trust, elected thereto upon appeals to the public weal, and turning to their questionable advantage thrusts, at the established order, blows at the government, and scandalous suggestions to the public in the guise of loyal apprehension and anxiety for the general well being.

We hesitate .to lay to the doubtful credit of any one the crime of the bomb thrower. Even the most artificial American would shudder to think that his sentiments inspired such unwholesome results. Yet before us lie the bodies of the dead, and. stands the scarred federal building that is to us the signs and token of our government. A hand had been raised against our peace. A weak, palsied, fretful, and misguided hand, to be sure. But an evil distillation set that hand to york. So long as the will of the majority continues to be assailed by such damnable methods there is but one remedy the majority must act quickly and firmly, by. placing in authority those whose motives and loyalty are so far above reproach as

to merit not the slightest question and who will J

swiftly carry out the majority command. , It is no time for men in office to lend the cloak of official protection and ill disguised sympathy to the Bolsheviks, the pacifists, and the pro-enemy groups. Those who oppose the war and its aims and are preaching class hatred, are fermenting a volatile dose that will again loose some murderous malcontent.

German Stock Going Down

From the New. Republic,

NE thing Is plain enough from the news about Spain, and Germany. Spain is quite willing to risk

a break with uermany by adopting the policy or

seizing one German ship in Spanish ports for every Spanish ship sunk by submarines. She is more than willing. She is courting a break with Germany. In other neutral countries signs of the same change of mind are appearing. The Dutch newspapers are commenting with a new frankness, unfavorable to Germany, upon her recent military performance and present military situation. Swiss papers written in German and hitherto pro-German in tone are reported as printing anti-German articles. Sweden, recognizing the Allied blockade in effect, is shutting down on trade with Germany, increasing her trade with the Allies, turning over to the Allies four hundred thousand tons of shipping. In other words, German stock is going down in Spain and in three of the countries nearest, her and. in a favorable position for estimating what is happening to her.

former source comes ta about 60 ier cent, of the. total casualties after ? a delay averaging from four to fl I e months counting the light cast h which are only a matter of days, arl the severe cases, which may mean ! year or more. Whatever the Germa i . losses were in the great battle i March, April and May when theil

missed their, decision a great deal less than half that total has been reclaimed. Of the losses since July 15 certainly not one-fifth have returned. Meanwhile the second source of supply is" only now becoming available. It consists of lads of the 1920 class

namely, those born in the course of the year 1910. Not all of them are yet eighteen years of age. Their total incorporated number, excluding a large proportion of undeveloped boys who have just come back out of the

very youngest classes for later examination, will be some 450,000 before the end of the year. None of these has yet appeared in the field, but will be there soon. Under the circumstances we know that there are from 180 to 190 available German divisions on the West front, somewhat under strength, though in exactly what degree we cannot tell. Theje may be 1,400,000 bayonets against us, maybe a few more or many less, but certainly not a full million and a half. Over against this force the Allied line now has a clear, though not yet a very large, superiority in numbers. It is a superiority which is rapidly growing through the continual arrival of American contingents. There, first, is the crudest element in the situation numbers. Now look at the second equally or more important factor ground. Here I must ask the reader to look at any map of France or eastern Germany if he would follow the argument. The line between the North Sea and Swiss frontier (now that Foch has reduced the two great enemy saliants at Montdidier and the Marne) runs in a shape which may be compared to the Hebrew letter Lameds, or again to the back, seat and front legs of a chair. There is roughly speaking, first, a north and south perpendicular, then an east and west horizontal, then another north and south perpendicular. The first north and south perpendicular, which is the back of the chair, starts at Nieuport, on the North Sea, and runs down past Ypres, Arras, Mapaume, Peronne to Noyon. The horizontal runs from Noyon past Soissons, and Rhiems through Argonne Forest to

Verdun. The last perpendicular, which J

the last German offensive, July 15 to 18, this "blistering" has kept up the congestion already begun by German concentration for that offensive. It has been possible to keep up this "blistering" because the Allied forces, thanks to the continually arriving American divisions, are continually in: creasing. The enemy has now for

nearly six weeks tried to redistribute

his forces. He has never been al

low to do so. Although as yet he has no prepared line, or at least no line fully prepared, he has determined to

retreat. He carried that determine

tion into effect, as we have seen, on the nights of August 26 and 27; In theory; a force retreating on a long determined plan should be able to get

away. It can start unobserved, es

pecially under trench conditions, if it

escapes by night. It leaves but a

hin rear cuard; it has already sent

'1 ack its heavy stuff; U breaks bridges a nd culverts and blows op crossroads behind It '"' Bit an attempt to retreat on a cer1 ei In sector when its flank Is still held I i in practice a difficult thing. Cpnsi Id'er that in retreating the great mass ol fcyour troops are out of action. They ai marching in a column. Your artillei ' is out of action, too. It is limbered up and on the road. You have no ammunition dumps to draw on. You dep nd for protection upon a rear gua d which screens you. It is suppose 1 1 that these rear guards are stroijjx enough to hold up the pursuit that . common under such conditions. The 4 atreat of the Germans all the way fsi om Lassigny to the Somme enjoyed uch conditions. It lost few prisonu s and no guns to speak of. Moreov r, the two southernmost echeions w-t re retired fourten miles in eighteen hours and the northernmost echelons were retired six miles In the last half of these eighteen hours. All went well. No bungler, however bad, could fa.tt in a simple covered retreat on a from of twenty miles. But what about fiaitks? The retreat of isolated armies is '; one thing; the retreat of a line joine 5 on either flank to further lines huntH eds of miles long is quite another. '.I he first, is like withdrawing your hand i 'rom a closing door. The second is li e trying to withdraw part of a rope tlii ? ends of which are fast. The momen the German retreat began Foch op med tremendous attacks above and li slow it. To the north Byng's Third i British Army' struck beyond the Sou irae and Albert. After him Home's Hi irst British Army struck on the Scarp a In the south Mangin, reinforced by Americans, moved forward again wit. h vigor. What was the result? The i atreat could not have

proved it was 1 halted on tbe second day. The stet I ly, orderly retirement conceived by L A dendorff changed into the desperate ne cessity of saving his left and right fka iks. For note that if either the Frem ' and Americans on the right and the south of the retreat.

or the British. oni the left and north,

the cavalry. "I'ee been knitting oir? it foh two weeks now," she said, "an d I gpects It will be three weeks mo'.fc efo' it's ready for occupancy I" A lawyer who for many years h 1 .d shocked a large number of his friei uls by his rather liberal views on religi D n recently died. A friend of the decedent, .who cK-.t short a trip to hurry back to town fur the purpose of attending the last rit e 3 of his colleague, entered the late la 9 -yer's home some minutes after t'.3 beginning of the service. "What part ol the service is this t " he Inquired In a whisper of anoth' tf legal .friend standing in the crowdeiU hallway. "I've Just come myself," said tfcn other, "but I believe they have ope: feed lor the defense."

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Retiring Enemy Forced to Fight

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By HILAIRE BELLOC 'Elements of the Great War" and Britain's Most Distinguished Military Critic

JUST after my last article was j The enemy, as we know, has rather completed, in the night between j less than 200 divisions on the western August 26 and August 27, the front. It is said he has 198 divisions, main German retreat, began. It has j counting the Austrians. These forces not proceeded as the enemy intended. he cannot seriously increase. These It has been checked in spite of his divisions, of course, are not all availplan. It has already proved disas-1 able for first line work. The number

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ments of three battalions each, a battalion at full strength being made up of. about 1,000 men. This force at present is short its full strength, how far short we do not know, but it is considerably depleted and; wilL not be at full strength again as long as it is being subjected to its present ordeal. We know that it is not at its full strength from a comparison between the losses and the recruitment It has lost since July IS that is, in

j forty-four days about 120,000 men in valid prisoners alone. It lost in three i days of its abortive offensive just be

fore an offensive conducted with over a quarter million infantrymen alone in the shock line, apart from

the immediate reserves some 50,000 men. Although the number of prisoners is large in this case compared with the total casualties, yet the total casualties can not be loss than 400,000 by the end of August.

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is the front Ire- f the chair, runs from had got a few nQ les forward the re

treating Germans Sin tne center wouia have been cut off. I To prevent such disaster the enemy allied command h 4 i to call back the men sent onward J n front of the retirement. He had to halt the retirement and fight ag inst his will. It matters little what lirogress was made

in these wings. " T S eN British are at Eterpigny, which m e ans that in the north the enemy cou to I not put men in fast enough. The lrench have advanced very little in ; the south, only to Leary and just bejnd Noyon, but that is not the point The point is that the Germans weiv compelled to turn and use their men, . and so far not a single division has bH'n able to get south and east of RheimB. That is the essential point. The great bend, or lfcnee, of .he southern half line, with ftie corner at Verdun, either side cf wlich the Al

lied command can strike lit pleasure, is still unfurnished on ti e enemy's side and is increasingly wet' furnisned by the rising American t le on our side. To keep the enemj? north of Rheims is the whole meaning of tbe great battles now proceedin g; between that town and Arras. So long as he is kept thei1 it matters little what other groundl is gained. Suppose the enemy makesa sharp retirement on a line now over", a hundred miles long. Then he lotte s inordinately at least in men and loiterial

because of the superior force which is intact and overlaps his litreat. Suppose he holds on? SupposeVihe is compelled to ho!d on? Better still. Then he leaves his fast flank tlrom Verdun westward vulnerable and flusters his men in the north to pre went disaster there. He uncovers ihe south flank. The tune of the strat ft";y is decided at Allied headquarters. There is determined the form of bati'da

and it will continue to be determine! there. Besides, the Allies have a corj tinualiy increasing force at their comw

mand, while the enemy, who has nevei

done anything without a superiority of

numbers, has a force which is de creasing.

THE WEAK SECTOR IN THE GERMAN LINE Foch' strategy i3 to keep most of the German troops in the west concentrated in the sector from the North Sea to the Argonne Forest, along the heavily shaded line. Thus the sector from the Argonne to Belfort, along the lightly shaded line, is held by comparatively weak German forces. Here the generalissimo is concentrating men for the break-through attack. In this assault the Americans are expected to play a prominent part. The positions in which they have fought are Indicated by black circles. . , trously expensive. It is not accom-J available is something between 1701 The enemy has had to counter atpllshing its purpose. The details of and ISO. That Is the only number that ' tack continually, his reads immediatethe movement have engaged public j concerns us, because the remainder !ly behind the front having been subattention, especially the recovery of j is only fit for garrison work and such Ejected most of the time to a ccntinu-

the ruins, the names cf which are fa-1 duties as relief guard behind the lines.

miliar, puch as Ronte, Chaulnes, Ba- At full strength the 1T0 or 180 divispaume and others. : But these detail ions would mean 1,530,000 to 1,620,tell us nothing unless we understand 000, the present establishment of a the whole scheme of operations, German divisioa being three regj-

ous bombardment from the air and from the artillery, moreover, he has suffered tactical inferiority as well as a numerical one from the presence of two new tactical instruments the

Verdun past St. Mihiel, Nancy and

Isoidie down to the Swiss frontier in front of Belfort. Now the interest capital interest in the present situation is this from

Argonne to the North Sea,, where on only half of the line, three-quarters of the enemy strength is drawn up. The only remaining quarter, and that not the most valuable in character, faces allies from Argonne to Switzerland. All the distance is virtually half the whole line. This fact, coupled with the state and the number of either side and the shape of the line, de-

j termines all the present strategy of

the campaign. . The reason the enemy finds himself thus congested upon the north of his line, and so ill supplied on the south is because he attempted a decision in the north last

spring and up to juiy to, ana yet failed. Having failed, he would have distributed his forces but Foch siezed the initiative at once and wouldn't let him. The Germans were thus kept congested in the north in spite of themselves'and sorely against their will, v Every attempt to save men by shortening "the line and relieving the crush in the north was mej by a new blow which compelled them to rush in divisions to met it. The enemy was right in trying to win in the north last March and April, at Metz in Jure and in July in front of Rheims. By' a victory in the north he could have separated the Allied armies and cut the great line of railway which is the lateral communication between Calais, Paris and Nancy.

This would politically have threatened Paris. Of the two hundred units he held the line with half and the other half he organized for shock, pursuit and relief. He struck his great

massed blows last, which fell on July 15 from Chateau 'Thierry to Argonne. It was the gathering of half his whole available strenath into a sort of club and the use cf that club always between Argonne and the North Sea that produced the congestion in the north. When the club missed its mark and the wrist and the hand that were holding it were suddnly gripped by a, counter offensive on July 18, the congestion was maintained at our dictation against the enemy's desire. He was prevented from redistributing his force and looking to the weakness beyond Argonne. First, in the Marne battle from July 18 to August 1, he was compelled to advance in quite sixty divisions to save himself from disaster. Then came the sudden blow In Tardenois on August 8, when sixteen divisions on the defensive had rapidly to call for aid until from first to last forty divisions were engaged by August 17. As that action stabilized with the

calling in of such forces, the blow fell again on August 21 in the north. The further' calling of divisions there to save disaster and Mangin's blow in the interval between Soissons and Noyon compelled the enemy to call in six divisions at first, which then swelled to ten and later tq fourteen. On August 26 came yet another blow, still further north on the Scarpe, and from three divisions there six, eight and finally ten moved up at speed to prevent a possible collapse " cf the German line. " ' Then was seen there a general "blis. tering" by the Allies, applied to the German front. 'Since the failure of

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