AWAITING FAVOURABLE TIME FOR COUNTER-STROKE
The war news to-day, as Reuter's correspondent expresses it, is not so good as one vould wish. The British have had to withdraw from Bailleul and Wytschaete. The pressure in this region is affecting our hold on the Messines position. Reuter's correspondent nt British Headquarters invites his readers to consider the situation from a fresh point of view, not frorn the loss of ground to the enemy but from 'he enormous and appalling price paid by the enemy to capture that ground. A certain method i 3to be perceived in Haig's retirements, which indicate a prepared policy. The correspondent adds that General Foch is aiming not only at arresting tho German advance, but also at a counter-attack wjiieh shall defeat the Germans. In the meantime he has not 6hown his hand, • . ■ •
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 179, 18 April 1918, Page 5
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