FROM OTHER SOURCES.
AN OPTIAIISTIC VIEW.
(United Service Telegrams.)
LONDON, April 18.
The “Pall Alall Gazette’s” war correspondent at the front states that the vUK tny hammer blows , are weakening and their morale is ebbing.
The Germans are withdrawing men from their munition works and from distant sectors and they are fighting with the-energy of despair, but no admission of failure is to he expected from General Ludeudorff, till every shred of hope lias vanished because the consequences of the-gamblers’ throw has been foreseen. y ,
A DAY OF DEFEAT
FOR. THE ENEMY,
fLCyXDCrJv, April IS. A semi-official message states that yesterday was a day of defeat for the' Germans, who had honed to overwhelm the. British, but- their plan was baffled. The French aro now effectively cooperating. Half the German divisions available ( oil 'the Western Front, are already engaged after only 26 days of battle. The cohesion is nowhere broken. Wo are now justified is asking, whether the tactical advan- j tages gained bv the Germans are in- ' no way disproportionate to their efforts and whether they are able to contnue to a finish. . \
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1918, Page 2
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