THE BIG BATTLE

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 141, 14 June 1918, Page 8

THE BIG BATTLE

ENEMY'S "SQUEEZING"

TACTICS

BIG ARMIES NORTH OP THE

SOMME

COLONEL REPINGTON'S COM

MENTS.

(UNITED PBKSS ASSOCIATION.—COPSRIQHT.) (ABSTEAUAN-NXW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received June 14, 1 p.m.) LONDON, 13th June. Colonel Repington (military correspondent of the Morning Post) says he does not suppose that Yon Ludendorff will be satisfied until he gains at least Mont Canelon, which overlooks Compiegne from the north, and so compel the French in the angle between the rivers'to cross to the south bank of the Aisne. / The fresh German offensive from the Soissons sector is obviously designed to aid the squeezing process by threatening the retreat of the French who are still north of the Aisne.

The enemy boasts that he has succeeded in engaging and scattering Foch's reserves ; but it is early to 'claim that the Allied Generalissimo has nothing under his hand. The more troops the enemy shows, the easier it will become for the defender to take precautions.

Colonel Repington says it seems certain that the enemy has four strong armies, under Yon Marwitz, Yon Below, Von\ Quast, and Yon Arnim, between the sea and the Somme. These have had a long rest, and must be ready to begin again.