GREAT BATTLE.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2886, 4 March 1916, Page 4

GREAT BATTLE.

LONDON WAITING ANXIOUSLY

FRENCH CENSOR SHUTS DOWN NEWS.

GERMANS' NEW PLAN CAUSING ALARM.

OPINIONS OF EXPERTS

London, Mlurch 1. Despite tllro optimistic tone of Paris correspondents' dicspa'iclies, London is tensely .aiwaiting further developments. The Pari« cd.iivor is delaying messages. Ho ,Ims not 'allowed despatches sinco yesterday morning. A well-iul-irnied Miiiiiclicsiler Guardian expert points out that the real anxiety is due to indications tLad- the Germans havo discovered a way of working an iutwi'inittcut, oll'etiwive,, wlbioh has been, .'the 'ideal sought by all General stall's since the Champagne bat He, which Showed the.impuioticivbility of a. continuous oH'ensive. The Geirnian inoviMiieiuts at Verdun have beep to capture an cm-U-oncbed posiitioti, tibon advance _ artillery and riialte fresh preparations for ■„ furl heir advance. Other experts poiimt out that the French (had" all positioms a-t Verdun oxaotly marked, with tbo result that during lilie withdrawal itlvo 75's bad tho ranges lo a. 'liiicety amd slaugjliitored ttho advaiiieing Gon wans. Tho Tiii'ds co'Prt\sipou<iouit rd, Pu.i"i« says tbo French have thoir backs to the wall and are fighting with increased optimism. 'There are growing indiiicaitioiiM tliatt the first crushing onpouring of the Gormanis lias slacTcenied and tihiiiil the. title lias readied 'highwatcir mark —perhaps lurried. The Fre.n<i.h couitrfoi-altack at Douaumoii't n a.rlced a new phase. These etoun'lJer-aittacks are 'now ox fondling along tbo whole sector. The GornriKiiH learnt a lesson a* Champagivo, wbtMc the F rein eh made a great gap in the German, linos, w* were unliable ito take full advautJi'io of lihi.s ovhins to like oanipuraifive lack of men. Tbe Got-uianis made tllioir offensive on a- sbortor llnie, thus comcenitiiatang a greatter weight of .sbell and denser Iniirniui attacks. The Freiiiob temaeify, the unilimrited rise of nmniUiimns, amd skilful mnaiioeuvriiig defeated the object, compelling the CJornnnmi 'headquarters, mftor a period of n.esi,|i!i,iw:y fluid ii'iicertaimty, to whiff tbo offtMisiive ea.stieirly to 'astern of tiTie Meuse ho : _hits in the Woevro.