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TWO YEARS AFTER

SOME THOUGHTS ON THE VICTORY CAMPAIGN OF 1918

November 1918 the World War, after raging on land, sea and in the air for over four years, came to a sudden d dramatic end. The German military monarchy, left Eolated and unsupported in the face of a host of vicrious enemies, its own armies exhausted by four years of duous effort and unavailing sacrifice, and now shattered y four months of defeat and retreat, had sent its pleniptentiaries to offer surrender. Assembled at night in the ain of the victorious Allied Commander, in the heart of le Forest of Compiègne, these plenipotentiaries, at 5 a.m. November 11th, affixed their signatures to their country's pitulation. Six hours later the final shots of the war hoed away into silence. They were the last volley over te grave of old Europe.

What the new era thus ushered in will eventually bring rth we cannot yet say, nor shall we be able to tell for any years to come. It is our purpose here merely to put wn some thoughts on the military events which led to e peace, and to estimate the share taken in those events the armies of the British Empire.

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We have now a certain amount of valuable material for is end-the revised edition of Lord Haig's despatches, the erman Government's account of the events preceding the mistice, an official pamphlet of the French Staff and le semi-official works of MM. Madelin and Recouly. But one of these can come up in value and interest to the onumental work of General Montgomery,* in which he tells, ith a wealth of detail and a sumptuousness of equipment ver yet surpassed in any military history, the story of e Fourth Army's achievements from Germany's black y" of August 8, 1918, to the final victory. It is to is work that we would direct all who wish to realize the ature of a modern offensive campaign and to gain an sight into present-day warfare. It would be a work of ipererogation to attempt again, in the limited compass of *The Story of the Fourth Army in the Battles of the Hundred Days, by ajor-General Sir Archibald Montgomery, K.C.M.G. (with a Foreword by neral Lord Rawlinson, G.C.B., A.D.C.), 2 vols., 3 guineas net; Hodder and Coughton, London.

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a magazine article, what General Montgomery and his sta have so well and truly accomplished. Some general reflec tions aroused by the perusal of his and the other above he mentioned works may, however, be set down briefly.

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The general course of the drama of 1918 is well known and It consisted of two distinct acts. The period of the first act ran from March 21st to July 17th, and included fi separate and well-marked scenes; namely, the Germa offensives in Picardy, in Flanders, on the Chemin d Dames and on the Matz, and the second Battle of the Mardi There followed a second act, from July 18th to Noved ber 11th, the scenes of which, though less sharply disti guishable, may be said to number five, as follows: Th counter-offensive on the Marne, the freeing of the Allies communications, the advance to the German fortified line the forcing of those lines and the pursuit of the German from France.

The first striking point about these operations of 191 is that they approached more nearly than anything sin the first few weeks of the war to a war of movement. Bo sides appear to have solved the problem, formerly so die cult, of overrunning fortified lines of trenches in one rus Between November 1914 and March 1918 no real brea through had ever occurred in the West; the most th either side had been able to accomplish was to force bac the enemy's line on a front more or less wide and to comp him to withdraw from his forward zone of defence to anothe further in rear. In 1918 all this was changed, an fortified systems, which for months on end had defied previous efforts to force them, were stormed in a few day or sometimes in a few hours.

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The methods, however, by which the opposing arm attained these ends were radically different. The Germa procedure was motived by the idea that, the trench syste having been so elaborated and brought to such a pitch perfection as to render its destruction by bombardme too lengthy and costly a process, surprise, that secret success, must be sought in paralysing its defenders at t moment of attack and rapidly overrunning them befo they could recover. The means used were an intensiv bombardment of short duration but of unparalleled violen against the enemy's forward zones, combined with a stor of gas shells over all his back areas and rearward communica tions for some ten or twelve miles behind the fighting-line This was followed by the rapid advance of the assaultin divisions, consisting mainly of picked troops, organized

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