AUSTRALIANS RESTORE THE POSITION
PUZZLE OF DELAYED OFFENSIVE A HITCH WITH AUSTRIA THE OSTEND RAID OFFICIAL STORY OF THE DASH Tho war critics and others are trying* to read the riddle of fho Germans' delay in launching their next big offensive. Opinions point to iv hitch with Austria, who is reluctant to detach troops from the Italian front, and also is anxious about her internal condition and tho CzechSlav ferment. The Gormu'na cannot afford to thin their line on tho Russian front, as soma show of forca is wanted to compel tho delivery of food supplies. Into the middle of theso speculations conies news of a Gorman attack on the British lino at llorlancourt. The attack, which was delivered on. a mile of front after a heavy bombardment, was countered by tho Australians, who restored the line' after a sharp counter-attack. The Admiralty has published a finely-written description of the latest naval raid on Ostend,
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 203, 16 May 1918, Page 5
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155AUSTRALIANS RESTORE THE POSITION Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 203, 16 May 1918, Page 5
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