WAR NOTES

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 20 July 1917, Page 3

WAR NOTES

NEXT ATTACK IN THE WEST. GERMAN ANTICIPATIONS. LONDON, July 6. The feeling that Britain’s maximum effort in the 1917 campaign on the western front has not yet come is especially strong in Germany. The menacing possibilities of Brussiloff’s thrust are also fully appreciated by the German High Command, but there arc the plainest indications that the latter regards as a still greater menace the possibilities of the Belgian front, where undoubtedly it expects a great blow soon. This is shown by the numerous reports of German war correspondents. For example, the correspondent of the Frankfurt Gazette says: "The battle of Flanders was conceived, not only as a menace to Lille, but as a break through on the whole Yser front There is no reason to suppose that Field-Marshal Haig will content himself with what has already been achieved. Reuter’s correspondent at Amsterdam states that the Prussian Minister for War, General von Stein, speaking in the Reichstag, said that the British had presumably planned greater actions north of Arras, Ke assorted that the French were exhausted, but admitted that the Russian offensive was now more energetic. The Minister declared that the abandonment of the Salonika enterprise was improbable.