The story of the great war . public get theresafely and in time? That was the question all the Alliedworld was asking. Thank Heaven, it did, but at the ex-pense of tremendous labor. And Heaven is to bethanked, too, that such a soldier with the genius of Gen-eral Foch stood between the Germans and defeat untilthe Americans were ready, nearly three months later, tobe sent in at the Marne to turn defeat into victory. We left the Germans at the end of their first blow atthe gates of Amiens. The exertion which carried themfifty miles in ten days had worn them out. They werefar beyond their supplies
The story of the great war . public get theresafely and in time? That was the question all the Alliedworld was asking. Thank Heaven, it did, but at the ex-pense of tremendous labor. And Heaven is to bethanked, too, that such a soldier with the genius of Gen-eral Foch stood between the Germans and defeat untilthe Americans were ready, nearly three months later, tobe sent in at the Marne to turn defeat into victory. We left the Germans at the end of their first blow atthe gates of Amiens. The exertion which carried themfifty miles in ten days had worn them out. They werefar beyond their supplies, ammunition and guns. In spiteof their gains they had been badly used by the terrific fireof the British and French. It was necessary for them tostop, reorganize and replenish their units with food andshells. In the meantime another German drive was preparingto the north. Blocked on the Somme, Ludendorif soughtto break through in Flanders. On April 9th, after an un-successful attack against Arras, the forces of Crown Prince. THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1918 227 Rupprecht smashed through on the front between Armen-tieres and Dixmude Ridge along the Lys valley south ofYpres. The advance was in a westerly direction towardsthe Channel ports. A corps of Portuguese troops wasbroken through and the Germans swept forward. All theimportant ridges that the British had captured at suchsacrifice during the summer and autumn of the previousyear in the Third Battle of Ypres were taken. Poel-cappelle, Passchendaele and Messines passed into theenemys hands. Yet still further west the Germans pushedright up to the summit of INIt. Kemmel, the key positionto Ypres itself. Still they did not stop, but, swaying alittle to the south, passed beyond Merville on the road toHazebrouck. The capture of this place with a further ad-vance westward to the range of hills, Mounts Noir, Rouge,Vidaigne and Scherpenberg beyond Mt. Kemmel, and theBritish would have to give up Ypres and the road openedto the Channel. At this
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