AMERICAN GENERAL'S VIEWS.
THE GERMANS BEATEN. MAY BE OUT OF FRANCE BY CHRISTMAS. THE TEST OF DISCIPLINE. • Received Sept. 22, 5 5 ■ p.m. New York, Sept. 21 Mr- Price Bell, the Chicago Daily News' correspondent on the West front, interviewed General Monash. He said: "German morale is low, yet we are, doubtless, a long way from the end ol the heavy fighting; but the Germans are beaten. If the weather continues favorable, it is conceivable the Germans will be pushed out of France by Christmas, t eannot say the same for Belgium. The HiDdenburg line will be taken in due course." While the correspondent was with General Monash he passed by some Australian soldiers working in a field, but they did not salute. General Monash said: "They did not salute me, but they are carrying on. We make too much of these symbols and signs of discipline. There is one supreme final test of discipline. It is that every man at the appointed time and place shall be on hand, resolute to do his job. By this test the Australian Army has passed a hundred per cent, clean:" Mr Price Bell continues: "You can travel fot two hours in a fast automobile due east of Amiens without reaching the end of the ground from which fee Australians have driven the Germans since April." He describes General Monash as being pre-eminently positive, with an unwavering confidence in his soldiers, his own ideas, and himself His military aspiration is a pertinacious offensive. General Monash said that the Australians' successes were clue largely to their junior officers, many of whom had risen from the ranks, and he particularly praised the speed of the engineers in bridge-building. Mr. Bell concludes: "General Monash has daring and renins written all across the landscape o? France, from Amiens to the Hindenburg line" Mr. Bell is one of the most brilliant pf the American correspondents in Europe.—Aus.-N.55. Cable Assoc. THE NEW GERMAN LINE. AMERICANS NEARIN& METZ. Received Sept. 22, 11 p.m. Washington, Sept. 21. General Marsh, in an interview, said: The Germans' new liue extends from Maizery to Vandieres, in the Moselle region, and has stopped further American advance. The Americans are now within ten miles of Metz, and an equal distance from Conflans. Major-General Reed, commanding the Fifteenth Scottish Division, highly praised the American artillery brigade for its effective co-operation with the Scots Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1918, Page 5
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