THE WESTERN FRONT
[l'Ell PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] RAIDING OPERATIONS. LONDON, September 12. This evening’s French report says: North of the river Ailette w e raided and took prisoners. Two enemy raids Have been repulsed in the Champagne and the Vosges. Artillerying is going on in the region of Rheims and Fresnes.
FOCH’S TACTICS. PARIS, September 12. Military critics here are discussing the Allied prospects of a further advance now that the German refloat has stopped at the Ilindenburg lino. Floods and wide trenches prevent the use of tanks, so there is a reversion to the old system of artillery preparation. This is necessary to shatter immense stretches of entanglements. Vast numbers of aeroplanes ai'e dropping great quantities of explosives, and thus will assist , the artillery and probably will . help towards affecting a surprise . The actual fronts attacked may bo limited but. surprise and secrecy are necessary so as to avoid the Germans massing troops at threatened points. General Ludendorff is labouring under a delusion if lie believes that General Foeh will not attack before the spring.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1918, Page 3
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