PROGRESS OF THE WAR

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 83, 5 October 1914, Page 8

PROGRESS OF THE WAR

ALLIES' TURNING MOVEMENT FIERCE FIGHTING AT ROVE. Geographically, all the positions reported in to-day's cablegrams support the statement that the turning movement of the Allies' left against the German right is steadily proceeding. As been explained, tho Germans have been fighting on the right to retain the command of tha route by which their right wing entered France from Belgium. One of the main roads leading out of Paris north-eastward divides into two sections at Senlis. which reunite just south of Cambrai, before entering North Belgium. The western section may be termed the Peronne road ; the eastern the St. Quentin road. Important points on or near the Peronne road are Laesigny, Royo, Chaulnes, and Peronne, which are situated in that order from south to north ; while further northward, or rather north-westward, is Cambrai. Last week the Germans held Lassigny, the Allies held Roye, then the Germans were in possession at Chauines, and Peronne was in dispute. Roye was the central point of the turning movement of the Allies, who were straining over toward Peronne and Cambrai. Failing to stop the progressive movement of the head of the Allies' enveloping columns, the Germans sought to find relief by striking hard at the centre of the movement ; hence the fierce attack upon the Allies at Roye. GERMANS RESIST ENVELOPMENT. A cablegram received on Saturday stated that the engagement at Roye had "fortunately turned ' out in the Allies' favour." A later message states that a violent action continues at Roye, "where the Germans have been further reinforced from the centre.'.' It is also made clear that reinforcements from the centre have been supplied to the right wing for days, and accounted for not only the attack upon Roye but for the retention of Lassigny and Chaulnes (on either side of Roye), and for the temporary recapture of Peronne. Thus it came to be a contest in numbers and mobility, the Germans fighting from the inner position, with a, view to'resisting the envelopment tactics which form their own favourite method of offence. The blows of the- Germans at the central portions of the enveloping movement nave not prevented the head thereof .from steadily advancing, for ii is now cabled that the northern end of the German line has been bent' back northeastward to Cambrai. If the Allies can win and hold Cambrai, without being forced to give ground at Roye and other points along the Peronne-road, the defeat of the Germans se*ms to be absolutely certain. Their positions along the Peronne and St. Quentin roads would be dominated from Cambrai, and their retreat by the road over which they entered France would be impossible. Failure to force the Allies back must inevi■tably mean a German retreat to the east and north-east. This is the position which has forced itself upon the Berlin press. GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS. To carry out the turning movement now in hand, the Allies must have superiority in numbers, or at any rate in the numbers that can be effectively used. It is possible that, if the German right wing becomes really enveloped by an enemy holding strong positions, numbers will not remedy the situation. The army in the inner position may become so cramped that reinforcements may become an embarrassment ; and one message suggests that General Yon- Klnck, in command of the German right, is being impeded rather than aided by the crowding in of supports. Something similar was said, Tiowever, about the earliei attacks' upon Liege. As soon as that fortress was masked^ the great armies that were said to be a cause of congestion, and confusion on the frontier swept across Belgium liko a thunderbolt. It would be unwise to rely on the possibility of the Germans crowding their 'reinforcements on the Aisne and the Oise. It is more likely that the side possessing the last reinforcements of fresh and fully-supplied troops' will win. Unless the Germans can drive back the Allies from the Peronne-Cambrai line, they will lose the battle, and they aro pouring in men from the centre for that supreme purpose. Efficiency of their inner lines of communication will stand for much, not only in manoeuvring the troops, but in supplying them in the firing line. A. collapse in the supply departments would prove as fatal a 6 it was on the Marne. GERMAN CRUISERS IN THE PACIFIC. The two most powerful ships of the German China Squadron, the Cruisers Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau, cut looge from Kaio-chau early in the war and were known to have entered the Pacific. Unlike their smaller sister the Emden, who has been so active in the Indian Ocean, no .tale of ..sunken shipß marked their progress until they reached the French island Tahiti, where the small French gunboat Zelee became their victim. Their bombardment of Papeete, the capital of Tahiti, as, reported in to-day's message, may have had for its purpose the destruction of a wireless station or some other specific object. Generally speaking, warships, unless they have easy mean 3of replenishing their magazines, do not bombard towns, because every shell fired is one less with which to carry on the ultimate fight with the enemy's warships. These German cruisers cannot have any ammunition base, and, since the ulestruction of the German wireless stations in the Pacific, they must find it increasingly difficult to arrange rendezvous with colliers. Living from hand to: mouth, their career must be limited unless they are lucky in capturing coal and evading pursuers. Their Tahiti exploit will probably hasten the arrival of Nemesis. The Scharnhorsfc and the Gneisenau are both over 11,000 tons, and each mounts eight B.2in guns. In armament they are therefore superior to the town class of cruiser, which in the Pacific is represented on the British side by the Melbourne type, an the Gernian side by the Leipzig type. The Leipzig and Nurnberg have been heard of much more than the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau. Of course, the German cruisers may have sunk ships whose loss Imw not yet been reported. As far as we know, none of them, except the Emden, has been successful on a big scale, and the task of convoying the Indian trpops may possibly account foi her comparative immunity.

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