TO KEEP THE GERMANS ON THE MOVE.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 17 July 1916, Page 5

TO KEEP THE GERMANS ON THE MOVE.

EACH RETIREMENT MEANS WEAKER DEFENCE. BRITISH HAVE AMPLE DRIVING POWER. ENEMY’S GUNS SUCCESSFULL Y DEALT WITH. TROOPS IN GREAT HEART. PARIS, July 15. An outstanding feature of the new offensive was the extensive transferI ence of British guns, which was carried out with the utmost rapidity in order to enable the German positions , at the rear to be captured before the Germans had time to fully fortify. Sir Douglas Haig’s object is to keep the Germans on the move, knowing that successive positions afford increasingly less protection. As the advance continues it is no longer. Able for th* Germans to carry on, a rearguard Struggle with . detach-.

ments of machine-gunners while, the Infantry is massed at convenient statioiis for, counter-strokes. Subterranean machine-gune .. emplacements will soon be rare. , Trencher JC£ n be dug quickly, but underground shelters take weeks and months;,.to'Jink up into a systematic defence . The, splendid supplies, ammunition available put heart into the. British infantry. . There is- no chance of a repetition of the Loos and Neuv.e Ghapelle mischance. \ ' " The War Office announces that since July Ist, owing to the success of the bombardment the proportion of slight wounds as compared with serious has been very high, proving that the enemy’s artillery is being successfully dealt with. The troops ai Last are convinced that they have mastery of the Germans and advance to each assault with greater dash and coui*age.