HIDING TROOPS

Taihape Daily Times, 17 June 1918, Page 7

HIDING TROOPS

HUNS' GEEAT DIFFICULTY. What aircraft has compelled in the movements of troops preparatory to any great offensive is brought into Prominence in an article from the front by the special correspondent of the Times. Speaking of the extraordinary precautions necessitated by the untiring work of the allies' aircraft, it has, the corerspondent points out, become definitely known from staff orders captured that the great number of the divisions which the enemj' were able to throw into their offensive, had to be transferred from other parts of the frant and rear to the scene of operations by night. On arriving at each successive stage of their march the different regiments were ordered to appoint police patrols, whose duty was to guard in every way against detection from aircraft, to camouflage all vehicles and prevent any formation of groups of men in the streets or roads during the day. With the same object, a medical inspection was carried out company by company by the regimental surgeon, instead of all the i sick of the regiment going to his quarters. No units were allowed to move by day. No bivouac fires were allowed and all lights had to be carefully concealed. Any transgression, on which airmen had to report, was to be sever ey punished.