COMPLAINTS OF CAMOUFLAGED REPORTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 300, 7 September 1918, Page 7

COMPLAINTS OF CAMOUFLAGED REPORTS

Under the continued pressure by the Frencn and American forces on the Vesle front, the enemy has retreated to the line of the dominating heights—which are now occupied by the Allies. A ■ 'further retreat by the enemy' to the Chemin des Dames, line is considered to he not unlikely. On the- British , front Ploegstecrt (the "Plug Street" of military parlance), arid Hill 63 are now in our hands. The .pressure on the German line before Cambrai is being, .'maintained.' The enemy ie attempting, with at some points a small degree of success, to flood the intervening country and so impede /our advance and is also heavily shelling our line from a big gun concentration, far in his rear. In' the last four days the British ■ ••'. have taken 16,000 prisoners and 100 guns. The strain of this prolonged series of reverses to the German armies is beginning to tell nn the German Press and public. The "Cologne Gazette" frankly admits tho gravity of the situation, and caudidly states that the reaction oh the public mind would have been less serious had the German authorities, in. their inspired propaganda, abstained from camouflaging the. situation—disguising the realities.