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Years After-

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WHEN

WENTY-TWO years ago to-day Britain went

they were warned by the railway chiefs that the only way of im- proving their position was to gain possession of Reims, on the other flank, and of the railways that ran through it.

Hence Hindenburg and Luden- great offensive to widen

the

to war, on a Monday Bank dort drew up plans for another Holiday. In this article, we salient by breaking through it. tell how, with the Second this corner, Battle of the Morne in 1918, It was a stroke, not to win the the Germans, who had with, war, but to safeguard themselves. stood the armed forces of the After it had succeeded, Luden- whole world for four years, dorit intended to switch his re- couver began to crample and finally serves northward and make Then cunc the war-winning throat against

British in Flanders. Arrive collapse

Armistice.

was never to be That dream HE tide of the war filler. was finally turned in Two Tricks Up favour of the Allies

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Sept. 21 during the week that began 7 on July 15 and ended on July 1922, 1918.

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his Ure

Their Sleeve

The German offensive was to he untrashed on July 15,

But before this all chance of

This decisive event took place Nov. 16 in the same way and at the same surprise had disappeared." Thi

place as, nearly four years before. French

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the tide of the original German raught napping before, and this

they were quick to invasion he first been demnard time

cles that s thr Botter

were Examina- und turned back.

abundantly provided.

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The Second Battle

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The Second Battle of the Marne, tions of photographs taken behini

Germana

Krims lines near like the first, was decided by a the

| runteral rake a form of action showed great dumps of ammuni-

hide which proved far more effective fian which camouflage had failed from the searching under the conditions of 1914-18 To

scrutiny of the photographie lens, than any offensive,

The opening was provided in carb Fase by tieran move.

In 1914 the Germa right wing had wheeled inward across face of Paris in a premature at- tempt to roll up the flank of the french armies and close the net around them.

An Imperial War Museum photograph taken at the Battle of the Marne.

Prisoners whe were taken ad- German attack completely broke mitted that vast preparations were down. in progresa.

So he accepted Petain's ani gestion, but with the idea of strik Historically, it had an amusing in at Sulssons before the Ger- Then, on the evening of the 14th, side, and it came to be christened mang could strike,

Petada. however, 1345 French raid bright in a "Gonrad's manoeuvre," after the

as he had dired re cautious, and rummander who local army prisoner who broke down under gruelling cross-examination and

still in waiting when the German Kave away the exact time when the eived the plaudits of his country charge of the forces, they were

men for his clever ruse.

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The mug had exposed their own German

of Paris, login, Bank to the garrison

bombardment

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which, anddenly emerging from „Kat the French were forearmed the Paris defences, had struck su as well as forewarned. They and

1WD tricks up their sleeve ahrewdly as to upset the German machte.

enter the coming German dal

A Huge

New Salient

1918 live opportunity In July

German may be traced to the offensive of May 27.

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The truth, however, is that the attack of July 15 was delivered, gallan toured, a man who bad Masses Of

spirit of a medieval knight-

errant, had only adopted it with

real reluctance and after much persuasion by Potain, who made

Smull Tanks

The advine soon slackened off when the opening supprise Was over, and the Germans managed to

hold Soisso118.

But by the 20th the other French armies had joined in the offen. sallent from Solssons to Reima. sive along the whole cirenit of the

Compelled To

Abandon Gains This many-sided pressure com- Three days later, on July 18, pelled the Germaus to abandon the The first WIN AL new form of war as a business rather than as a they were launched to the attack, ground they had gained in order

and their blow was all the more to save themselves.

Fighting desperately to hold the Plastic defence, and the second a knightly tournament. concealed concentration of, tanks

With the failure of the German deadly because it enought the Ger- n the other side of the salient, offensive, the way was open for mans when they were deeply com- two corners, they managed to with draw to a shorter line along the near Soissons.

the French to complete their dis. mitted on the other flank.

Led by masses of small tanka Vesle, although they left 25,000 The first came into operation un romliture by revealing the seconi

nearly four hundred in all-the prisoners and vast quantities of The French forward trump.

Weeks beforehand Petain had French and American infantry of stores in the Allies' hands.

They had escaped a disaster, but This has smashed a great hole July 15, in the French frost north of the position was hell by few men-

of defeat. Alsne, had swept over this river only sufficient to deceive the at- asked Foch to concentrate & large Mangin's army advanced in the

Vagle, but had at last tackers and upset their smooth body of reserves on the western darkness and mist of the early, they hind only postponed the hour From this moment the initiative It nightfall

four passed to the Allies, and the Ger- come to a stop on reaching the advance-while the real resistance flank of the salient, ready to make morning.

they were Marns-leaving the Germans with waited for the enemy in a strong a counter thrust if and when the position behind, out of reach of Germans made their next attack.

Foch was more intent on tak miles, forward and menacingly man morale would rapidly decline a huge new salient to hold.

end came in November. Their forces inside it were de- the mass of the German artillery.

This trick was most successful, ing the offensive himself than on close to the vital rail centre of under repented blows, until the single rallway pendent through Soissong an oje flank, and especially east of Reims, where the retarting to the enemy's.

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A city law in Topeka limits any The percentage of suleides among

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