REPINGTON’S WARMING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1015, 7 November 1917, Page 5

REPINGTON’S WARMING.

MACKENSEN’S PROJECTED OFFENSIVE AGAINST SALONIKA. GERMAN PLANS SEATED. LONDON, Nov. 5. Colonel Repington, the. Times military writer, says the most rc/narkaiblo German success of tho war was won by only a handful of troops. Von Budow’-s army consists of six divisions, two from, tho French and four from the Russo-Roumanian fronts. They routed an Italian army of far superior strength, proving again tho predominance of moral over material forces Only a subversive propagan,da can lexplain the terrible stain on the Italian army’s name. None can recognise Wio heroes' of the past in this distressing rout, involving tho greatest Allied disaster of the ’war. Colonel Repington wjjarns the Cabinet that Maokenson is projecting anjoli’ensivo against Salonika, and that Vadkonhayn ia sending largo Turkish forci ( s, freed from Armenia, against General Mttude, or Allenby, or both. Colonel Ropingtoiy claims that sixty more divisions would /mve broken the German front in the west*, and calls on thee Empire to make sacrifices equal to Germany’s, whose military effort is double the British.