CRITICAL MOMENT PASSED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1031, 6 December 1917, Page 5

CRITICAL MOMENT PASSED.

'RUPPRECIIT'S SWORD ARM ACTUATED BY HINDENBURG. 1 Australian-New Zealand Cable Association, i f LONDON, Dec. 4. I The United Press correspondent says: j 1 believe that the most critical moment in the. Cambrai battlefield is past, but I -do not, think that Hindenburg will allow matters to stand where they an* now. Severe .lighting is probably ahead. .Hindenburg i will undoubtedly fling more men over the ; barricade of German corpses, which is strewn around tho Cambrai bulge. Thu.-, far the attempt to flatten out Byng'ej jump towards Cambrai is a total failure. Prisoners declare that Uhlans are held in readiness to exploit the hoped-for br.<eak through. Reinforcements continue to arrive, and tho enemy artillery is increasing. ! This was fetched from other parts of the line.' I was in Flanders on Sunday tit the time.of the local advance in the region of Pabschendaele, Tho enemy counter-bar-j rage was nine minutes late and was much I lighter than in the previous fighting in this area. Obviously the British guns have j knocked out the Prussian or.the latter have 'been withdrawn. Tho situation to-day ap- ' parently is that Runprecht's sword any ■ k actuated by Hindenburg. The latter j will wage battle as long as he can Tmrl troops to respond. Every British bfficer ( and Tommy is mrwt confident that Rupiprccht will be unable to make nm/h headj way, regardless of the amount of strength lite develops, despite his advantages in fighting out from a chain of fortresses with undisturbed roads and railways ! against the British, who are fighting in the J open and behind whom lies the. devastated '; Somme battlefield, roadless, railwayless, eave for soldier-built routes. Hindenburg's human avalanches have been checked, and {if Rupprecht persists in fighting, ho may ifind that tho bulge which he is prodding is a hornet's nest.