THE WAR SITUATION.
REVIEYvED KY BRITISH
"EXPJSHT
"EVJE-IIY HKASON TO OSS
PLEASED."
(ReivtxKr's Telegrams.^ (Received "Oct. 12, 7M ip.m.) LONDON-, «)ct. 11. # General Maurice, Director of Military Operations, reviewing the situation, sajps: "We have >every reason to be pteased with Urn latest advance." He describes Colonel Morality statement that since September the British -iop-t half a million men <*is grotesque. (Chere were no** that dumber of m&a. engaged in -th>'s serfe* of battles, "Since January our total casualties in all theatres h«*e not exceeded half -a million. TiHe submarines *iave not delayed our jsfens in Franae ;one hour, nor kept liack a single -sound of ammunition. The British ape better fed and more iliberally suppiitsd and equipped than ever before, "ffhe importation of war materials h#x> France was eleven tons an hour. It had risen to twenty-four tons in the last week^ot September. -Railway and canal facilities -for ttransportin-g -supplies have enormously improved."
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Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 243, 13 October 1917, Page 5
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