The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . hroad from Roye toLassigny. Boehm had beenput in command of the twoGerman armies between theSomme and Oise, replacingMarwitz and Hutier, each ofwhom had been acting inde-pendently under a separatechief — Marwitz under theCrown Prince of Bavaria andHutier under the CrownPrince of Prussia. Boehm, who had conducted the re-treat out of the Marne pocket to the Vesle, had seemed toLudendorff the man of the hour for a similar withdrawalbehind the Peronne-Noyon
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . hroad from Roye toLassigny. Boehm had beenput in command of the twoGerman armies between theSomme and Oise, replacingMarwitz and Hutier, each ofwhom had been acting inde-pendently under a separatechief — Marwitz under theCrown Prince of Bavaria andHutier under the CrownPrince of Prussia. Boehm, who had conducted the re-treat out of the Marne pocket to the Vesle, had seemed toLudendorff the man of the hour for a similar withdrawalbehind the Peronne-Noyon line. Belief was growing thatthe Germans were, much nearer the end of their tether thanthe rest of the world had been allowed to guess. It wasknown that to make up for the awful wastage in the Marnesalient and on the Somme they had practically emptied ofmen their depots in the interior, and that many thousandsof the class of 1920, still in the training stage, had beendrafted into garrison-work. The key to their condition layprobably in Russia, where their greed for expansion hadled them to bite off more than they could swallow. Their. General Rawlixson V. V—21 313 ON THE WESTERN FRONT *conquests in Russia bade fair to hasten their ruin on theWestern ^ The Allies had now definitely abolished the menace toParis presented by the Montdidier salient; the Oise, like the]\rarne, was not only barred, but doubly barred. They hadcleared the Germans out of the Amiens front, thus insuringunion between British and Frencharmies, had reopened allvital railroad-lines which met in that city, including the mainParis-Amiens-Calais line, which had been cut ever since theGerman March offensive, a gain comparable to the clearingof the Paris-Chalons-Nancy railroad, and incalculable bothwith respect to the future security of Anglo-French com-munications and the greater efficiency of Allied only serious consequences of all the German gains of thespring and early summer had bee
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