LESSON OF CAMBRAL.
OF GREAT VALUE TO BRITISH.
COMFORTING SITUATION ON WEST FRONT.
ENEMY’S PICKED TROOPS POWERLESS BEFORE BRITISH.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association
PARIS, Jail. 2. M. Marcel Hutin, in the Echo do Paris, says the lesson of Canibrai has been of the greatest value to the British command. Marshal Ludendorff is now forced to admit that the famous storming troops from Hanover, Brunswisk and the Rhine provinces have been forced to relinquish most of the ground they had taken. The chief mistake of General Byng’s attack was that the cavalry did not intervene in time to push home the preliminary success. Later the British Guardsmen held tlieir own against the whole German army. The Guardsmen, unaided, freed a great number of prisoners. They recaptured most of tlie guns and all left behind in the withdrawal.
PARIS, Jan. 2. M. Marcel Hutin adds: The spectacle of the Germans being powerless to obtain any success on the British front is extremely comforting.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4758, 4 January 1918, Page 5
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