The war in January 1918 . ome question of the balanceof these factors; but ther^ can be none aboutthe balance of the whole of the years United States, with its 100,000,000 in-habitants, has entered wholeheartedly into thewar on the side of the Allies, and the true bear-ing of the situation is not understood only bythose who held in 1914 that the British Armiesnever could leach their present size or , with the entry of the UnitedStates, practically all the States in the worldoutside Europe have espoused the cause of theAllies, and as they produce the main bulk o
The war in January 1918 . ome question of the balanceof these factors; but ther^ can be none aboutthe balance of the whole of the years United States, with its 100,000,000 in-habitants, has entered wholeheartedly into thewar on the side of the Allies, and the true bear-ing of the situation is not understood only bythose who held in 1914 that the British Armiesnever could leach their present size or , with the entry of the UnitedStates, practically all the States in the worldoutside Europe have espoused the cause of theAllies, and as they produce the main bulk of theraw material upon which the modern industrialstate depends, this represents an Allied victoryof the most decisive and far-reaching character. The Victories on the West. THE years fighting opened with the firstclear admission of the Germans thatthey could not stand up to the full forceof the Franco-British offensive for long. Theunrestricted submarine campaign was tanta- THE WAR IN JANUARY. 11 OSTENDE K11ometi-eszo 30. mount to such an admission, for it announcedunambiguously that the Germans would even risk the entrance of America into the fieldrather than face the unlimited continuance ofhammer blows like the Somme attacks. In March the Germans emphasised the admis-sion by falling back between Arras and theAisne to a depth which amounted in places toover 30 miles. This was the only retreat of anyextent of either side since the Battle of theMarnc, and no unbiased student of the warmissed its lesson. But the Battle of Arras followed hard uponthe withdrawal, and the Germans lost notonly the \imy Ridge with the positionsgiving observation over the Douai plain, butalso 19,500 prisoners, 257 guns, 227 trenchmortars, and 464 machine guns. Then camethe French attack on the Aisne. Further impor-tant positions were secured, and the Germanslost about 29,000 prisoners, and were reducedby constant counter-attacks to one of those longdefensives which are most wasteful in men anddepress
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