So long as the enemy is kept away from Paris,
the loss of ground, though unfortunate, is not disastrous. General Foch's object is to make the Germans pay so heavily for each strip of land overrun by them that they will use up their reserves. As General Maurice points out in the Daily Chronklt, Marshal Hindenburg must now be calculating whether he has men enough left for two simultaneous offensives against Paris and against our Army in Flanders. Already our adversary, the Bavarian Crown Prince, has sent some divisions to help the German Crown Prince on the Oise and Aisne. If this process continues, one Crown Prince or the other will have to abandon his plans of attack on a grand scale. General Foch's anxious task would thus be simplified. The Allies must expect the German offensive to be maintained with the utmost violence until the autumn, but their work would be appreciably lightened if the enemy had to confine his tremendous onslaughts to one part of our Western Front.
