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• JIAUuRICE APPEALS TO THIS DOtMINIONiS. Received this day, 10.40 a.m. ■London, August 30. '■General Maurice writes: Tlie present offensive is great in promise though it lacks ;:he weight to carry us to complete victory. . The American amies will give the necepsary weight, but the will' must bo prolonged unless the British armiep are kept up. The question anxiously ,'i.skcd in Franco isr Will they keep up the drafts? If we reply with the annual contingent of nfineteen-year-olds and tlie recovered rack ana wounded, we cannot maintain our forces at full strength and the war will be prolonged. Evei-v able-bodied man. possible must be senl; to the front. While Ireland is out of the war we are not doing our best. Our overseas expeditions must be reduced to vital .necessjfcl We must appeal to the Dominions lodk to tlheir man power. If Austral)", could see at work. her glorious troops * who saved Amiens in April and now wi-fah reduced ranks are cfrmng emv the Somme, the Austrian ranks WJnld nwb Jong remain unfilleil. , . j*- • ■■■■''
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 31 August 1918, Page 3
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