THE GREAT BATTLE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 20 April 1918, Page 7

THE GREAT BATTLE.

A CHEERFUL VIEW

GERMAN PROSPECTS DARKENING

CHANCE OF SUCCESS LESSENING DAILY.

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. (Received April 20, 11 a.m.)

LONDON^ April 19. The Daily Chronicle's Paris correspondent had an interview with the French general who intervened at Noyon on March 23 and blocked the ioad ( to Paris when the British right broke down. He said: We husbanded our strength, arrested the enemy, and now hold him firmly, thanks to our superior artillery and greatly superior aviation. AYe are wearing him down. Messines and Wytschaete were .only episodes. The German armies made their effort to secure an immediate decision by dividing the Allies, and the enemy therefore slaughtered his best fortes. If the effort has not succeed- | ed in a month, what is the future prospect? The enemy can yet strike severe blows, but we' are daily better I prepared, while their case grows daily vorse. Many German divisions now in the line are in a lamentable condition, fend others which have been brought hack a second or third time are little better. For the first time the German 1919 class is now being used to a considerable extent in order to complete their effectives, and very soon, with j British" and American reinforcements, | "we shall have the margin we want. ,