WHY GERMANY QUITTED.
+ FOCH'S GREAT PLAN. LONDON, January 10. The Paris journal "Excelsior" confirms the statement that Marshal Foch s great offensive was timed to begin on November 12th. He would have carried the war into German territory. General Castelnau, commanding €00,000 French and American troops, with 3000 guns and 300 tank:* was preparing to attack on a 70-kilometro front in Lorraine, where the Duke of Wurtcmbergj commanded 160,000 men, with 1000 guns. Marshal Foch intended to cut off tho German armies fighting in the Ardennes and Belgium. The German command, learning of the proposed offensive, decided to ask for an armistice.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16428, 23 January 1919, Page 7
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102WHY GERMANY QUITTED. Press, Volume LV, Issue 16428, 23 January 1919, Page 7
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