GERMANY'S "BLACK DAY."
MONASH DESCRIBES AUGUST 8v "DYNAMIC sFIENDOXJR OF GUNS." y I LONDON, Dec. 6. j Australia's contribution in the great battle of August 8. 1918, Ludendorff'u - "black day." is strikingly detailed in .a further instalment of General Monash's book in the Sunday Times., ' The account gives a. broad impression of the wonderful precision of the irresistible attack, employing 100,000 infantry, massed tanks, and aeroplanes, i and opening with a barrage of over . 1000 guns. • General Monash describes such artillery viewed from a high vantage point at dawn, as "surely surpassing in dynamic splendour any other manifestation, of, collective human effort." The Sunday Times, in & leading article,, says that General Monash will be remembered as long as the great days of 1918 remain in the memories of. a grateful people. . Among the many errors made by the . Germain Command none was more, dist istrouS than the under-estirhate formed i of this civil engineer and the borifc sol- . diers.of Australia who fought under
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1707, 23 December 1919, Page 5
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