The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . But theyknew that the Allies could not be caught napping thistime; that the line they assailed would be strongly held,and that Allied reserves were close at hand. Behind theGerman lirst line were grouped Ludendorffs reserves. Ina battle like this failure to go forward meant defeat. Inconsequence, losses were ignored. Defenders and prisonersalike agreed that never, even at Verdun, had been seen suchwholesale slaughter. It was only the culmination of Ger-
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . But theyknew that the Allies could not be caught napping thistime; that the line they assailed would be strongly held,and that Allied reserves were close at hand. Behind theGerman lirst line were grouped Ludendorffs reserves. Ina battle like this failure to go forward meant defeat. Inconsequence, losses were ignored. Defenders and prisonersalike agreed that never, even at Verdun, had been seen suchwholesale slaughter. It was only the culmination of Ger-manys iron discipline that forced fresh waves forwardagainst machine-guns and artillery-barrages over groundevery foot of which had been registered by the fighting had been a rare occurrence in thiswar, -but here it was common all alojig the line. Menfought like dogs, with teeth and nails, said an eye-witness, describing the struggle for Courcelles. In a sense the attack signalized a critical period. TheGermans were now too near Paris not to become threateningwith every successful advance they -made, even tho it. © UN DERWOOD a UNDERWOOD. N. Y. GENERAL DEBENEY DECORATING AMERICAN SOLDIERSAt the left, in citizen dress, witli a soft hat, stands Premier Clemenceau V. V—11 153 ON THE WESTERN FRONT should be a relatively small one. The French were threat-ened with conditions in which they would have to make astand if Paris were to be saved from bomfbardment. Butthe assault had not met with the immediate success of theearlier attacks, and it had been accompanied with lossesmore considerable. We were not yet seeing the final episodein the gigantic battle, but only one of a series -of operationspreparatory to the final one. While the advance by com-parison had been much less than in the three previousattacks, the Germans were really pushing the French off thelast natural obstacles defending the roads to Paris, north ofthe Oise. The ground they had taken was im
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