ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1918, Page 3

ON THE WESTERN FRONT

■ - [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.] ALLIES PREPARED. LONDON, May 26. Router’s British headquarters correspondent says the overdue German attack is assuredly coming, hut every day the pause finds the Allies better prepared. Their confidence was never higher while the tramp of oncoming American troops is almost monotonously reassuring. A FRENCH OPINION. (Received This Dnv at 12.25. p.r- i LONDON, May 26. A French headquarters correspondent dwells on the difficulty of determining where the enemy is likely to attack, owing to the now method of employing assaulting troops and holding heavy masses of reserves, quickly moving to the striking point. The number of enemy divisions to-day is approximately known but the density of the enemy front affords no clue to his intentions. Fortunately with the unity of command massed of Anglo-Frehch-American reJserves will be i&vailable for instant services, wherever the front is threatened. THE REASON WHY. LONDON, May 26. The semi-official German newspaper “Norddentsch” explains that tho pause in the offensive is duo to the training of the storming divisions in fighting methods, with a view to diminishing the bloody loases. The pause is no? forced on the Germans, but is the outcome of the Commander’s own plans.