October 2, 19i5. 
LAND AND WATER. 
THE GREAT OFFENSIVE. 
By HILAIRE BliLLOC. 
NOTE — Thii article has been submitted to the Press Bureau, whicli cl»e« flat object t(> the publii:atiaii as censared, and takes irid 
responsibility for the correctness ol the statements. 
In accordance with the requirements of the Press Bureau, the positions ol troops on Plans illiistratinv; this Article must only be 
regarded as approximate, and no detinile strength at any point is indicated. 
THE great offensive in the West, which was 
refused last June on account of the situa- 
tion in Galicia, has begun. 
For some reason rather puzzling to a 
student of war, not a few authorities in this 
country, even among the instructed, imagined that 
the various offensive movements that had taken 
place in the spring and early summer were each 
of them an abortive attempt to develop the great 
offensive, and the belief that each had failed was 
an unfortunate aid to those who have made it 
their practice, for reasons of their own, to depress 
opinion in this country. 
It should have been perfectly clear all through 
what the great offensive would be, and bow it 
might be distinguished. Its marks have been fre- 
quently repeated in these columns. It would be 
preceded by an intense bonibardment throughout 
the line. It would open with attacks developed 
upon several distant points at once; the niai^i 
attempt to effect a breach would be made over a 
sector, not of two or four miles, but sixteen or 
twenty. These weie the three marks of a move- 
ment intended to be decisive. All three have bccii 
present this week in France. 
After j^rolonged lx)mbardmeiit, a specially in- 
[Capyrighi in Anwrica by "The Xen' York Anwrican."] 
Ypres 
Main 
British 
Attack. 
French / 
Attack 
coordinate 
with British 
The Action near Kooqe 
Xa Bassee 
The Crown Truices 
Counter Attack. 
I 
rke great liairi: LSt Mihiel 
Attack in Champagne 
Action in /^ 
The Ban deSapt 
/Swiss 
Frontier 
