THE PUFF PRELIMINARY.
PARIS, February 20. (Received February 21, at 12.50 p.m.) A high British officer, interviewed by the newspaper 'Matin,' stated: "The Germans must precipitate an assault and make an effort to finish things at all costs in order to justify their promises to their troops. The Germans believed that thev could agitate us by their threat of an offensive and by their account*, of their pre parations: but we know the value of all these accounts."
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Evening Star, Issue 16664, 21 February 1918, Page 6
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