Life — September 19, 1918 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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SEPTEMBER 19, 1915 “While ther Mi PUBLISHING COMPANY LIFE A, Mutat West Thi All at this reached the writing, have virtually Hindenburg e, except for twenty southeast of miles, Lens, where they have s to spread considerably east of it so What we all wonder, press, is threaten Cam therefore, as Lire goes to whether the where they seemed etter Germans, having got to be going, will staying have lately had in Can they hold the have any success in there than stopping on their way. Hindenburg line? ‘That is stion, and of course we loyal for don't they their next rooters they can. But the back to guns, which have lately heen too busy humanity helieve mapers say they have got the protection of their hig creeping to the rear to do much busi- ness. That difference. It is possible we have come to a pause may make a in proceedings on the western front, It is much more least, to but let us hope not satisfactory, to readers at have proceedings go on steadily while observation continues to be cheerful and which us therefore intent, than to have pauses in cold. Let xpect Hindenburg more than a surmount- catches the one’s ardor line to prove ne able ridge or gully which th ffensive will presently sweep over, and send the Germans back towards Rhi y tell us, is a town very suitable for the Allies to hold as a step to more, and then Cambrai and Laon, and whatever is between, and next whatever is he- yond, and so on to Berlin. We shall know the geography of this hurrying the where they he Donai, th vis Life there's Hope xo VOL. 72 1873 Sec’y and Treas t Street, New York don, F.C. dgs.. Leo part of France after a while. Mature minds facts in geograph. with reluctance, and are apt to forget towns and courses of ‘ast as they acquire them. accept new locations of streams as But the daily lessons of the Allied ad- vance that th us, with r mind or memory escape. be insisted that we shall papers have been giving »s, for weeks past, let no Tt seems to know and town by village by hill oof France th remember, village, hill hy and stream hy stream, that re has sacrificed on the altar of hu manity. And we shall hy son soon again about Belgium, where, been ve a like les- as the Germans retreat, the record of her suffe: freshed in our memories. ings will be reviewed and re- UT sessions of hesides these northerly super- Hindenburg’s bar- rier we have lately been taught to ex- pect a drive through it farther south, below Verdun, where it runs close frontier, so that a vigor- tall erritory the German ous intrusion through Lorraine w German hulk of the carry the war into For Ameri this enterprise the 1 troops are supposed to have i v heen gathered somewhere convenient. and to prosper it is one reason for the thumping farther north by both For Hil- at war sharp, steac the British and the French. laire Belloc, who is a gr says that three quarters of the total available German force of 1,400,000 men is north of Soissons, and that the southern half of the line is weak, and that the hammering on the northern end has been so steady that it has not heen possible to send back the forces that h that if right helong farther south, So our gentlemen do get started through Lorraine, and the going turns out to be reasonably good, it may he very interesting to watch them. ardently et somewhere, and that keep on punching through up north and south of Lens, and the admirable French a little And of course we all hoy that they may Haig 1 i arther down, so that the hig job will keep on seem- ing to get for'eder. how tiresome it is! and how expensive ! and how trying to the affe everybody's habits For, stars above! tions and to life, and with what glows of joy we all will sce it jolting to a finish! ‘OR really, even here, this war is past a joke, The new draft will mean military education for a couple of millions more of us, and adjustment and novel activities for all And taxes, and incidenta the rest. economies, nda general closing of the ranks in industry and housekeeping, and a grand scramble to put the job over ny comfort to the Germans to we don't like their infernal war, let them get w gener: it solace they can out of that, for we do not like it, even though we have enough to eat and fair Prospects of winter coal, But we do like, in the main, the way our end of The recent dragnet proceedings here, that held up many, it is going along many thousand perfectly innocent men, and exposed them to undeserved deri sion, seemed far But that has blown over, and the pa tience with which it was all borne wa marvellous. from well-advised. The new the training the trained men keep going over tl the quite already men are going to camps, seas, tay Dill is getting along through Congress, and is said to he the main, for all it is so drastic ntless. And people are getting to buy more bonds, and. ships and guns and even airplanes are mak- ing in ever increasing quantities, and ough thousands of details are not they should be, and human nature in every branch of service exhibits the comicbooks.com