WESTERN FRONT.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 February 1918, Page 5

WESTERN FRONT.

THE COMING BATTLE. HOST COLOSSAL 01'' ALL TIME. GERMANS USE TANKS. PROBABLE LOCALE OF ATTACK. Received Feb. 20, 1.50 a.m. London, Feb. 10. Tlie United Pros-; correspondent stales that civilisation in on the threshold of the most colossal buttle of all time. The Merman offensive is expected monientarily. The Germans, for the first time, will use tanks.' Some are like tile British, but equipped with mortars, while inhere have machine guns. They have a speed of almost four miles un hour, and will probably attempt to smash the British between Arras and St. Quentiu, with synchronised blows elsewhere. Trench mortars will be directed at entanglements, and from support trendies guns will be playing on battery positions, roads, railways, suspected concentration points and approaches. There will be a heavy percentage of gas sheila everywhere against the troops, and endless waves of infantry will follow like cattle through holes, in the hope thus to tear a way in. Officers arc telling the men the wildest stories of the infallibility of the scheme, : but. according to prisoners, the men are I doubtful.