GERMAN ATTACK MAY HAVE BEEN FEINT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 173, 22 July 1918, Page 5

GERMAN ATTACK MAY HAVE BEEN FEINT.

POSSIBLE THAT REAL DRIVE MAY BE TO COME. (Received 9.15 a.m.) j NEW YORK, July 21. The New York '■Times" says that it is very encouraging that the speed of the German offensive is slower than in the first and second phases of their eunnner offensive. The Allies face the future with strong faith. The. New York "Herald" states that the reslilts of the second day's lighting show that the enemy drive has boon stopped within 30 hours of it? commencement. The costly failure will have its recoil at home, where the German people have been deluded by vain promises of victory. The New York "Sun" says that so far the German armies have failed in their objectives. Their initial movement was shattered, aud readjustment of their forces necessitated, which will materially affect the general plan. Mr. Frank Simmonds, writing in the New York "Tribune," says that the German offensive was not pursued with the violence of the March or May operations, hut it may be that only the preliminary feints preceding the real drive have been witnessed. The. immediate threat to Rheime was real, and considerable. The wisest comment to-day was, "So far so good." The New York ••World" says that whatever the eventual resnlt, the fact remains that the drive was blocked on the second day, and that the Germans have practically nothing to show for their enormous losses. Washington military students say that it is too early to make a final decision, but it looks as it the German offensive had broken to pieces.— (A. atd N.Z. Cable.)