FROM OFFENCE TO DEFENCE
ENEMY'S UNCOMFORTABLE POSITION
LONDON, 17th August. General Maurice writes : "A month ago the whole German front between the Argonne and Ypres was an offensive rfront. To-day the -withdrawals show that the greater part has become defensive. It is now a question of the Germans balancing loss of prestige against loss of men. If the enemy likes he can. stay in the Roye-Lassigny-Noyon-Nesle quadrilateral at a price, but the position is most uncomfortable.' We are able to render the railway communications useless and to bomb the Somme bridges incessantly. The Lassigny massif dominates the positions along the Divette, which are taken in reverse from the high ground at Boulogne la Grasse. Whatever the result, we shall watch the enemy's solution of the problem with quiet satisfaction."
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 43, 19 August 1918, Page 7
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