Though we find no special significance in the German attacks
of the past week on the Western front, it must not be supposed that we are not fully aware that the Germans mean business in the West. In our opinion, they are preparing for the greatest effort they have yet made, an effort which, in their view, wilt far outweigh any of their former attempts to break through. Further, this attempt, which we believe has been carefully prepared for, especially as regards men, guns, and other munitions, including of course gas, and perhaps some new device which will probably prove as fantastic as usual at the first surprise, and as negligible afterwards, is likely to come very soon. This opinion is not only backed up by competent first-hand observers of what is going on in Germany, but is strongly supported by the login of events. The Germans are nothing if not scientific and statistical in their methods. They are always estimating their own strength and comparing it with that of the Allies. Indeed, optimists as they are, they realize that their fetish of Will-Power cannot be fed by faint hearts, and they feel very strongly that "the will to power'' must be stuffed " with the certainty of victory."
