Enemy’s Miscalculations
STORES DESTROYED BY FIRE. [Reuter Telegram.] (Received Sundav, 5 p.m.) LONDON, July 26. Reuter ’s correspondent at headquarters, writing at 11 p.m. on the 25th, states: Binco the 15th July 25,000 prisoners,, 400 guns, and several thousand machine guns have been captured from the enemy, whose loss in munitions and material is incalculable. Nightly fires indicate where the depots and stores which he is unable to remove are burning. It is now clearly proved that the Germans in beginning the offensive were again deluded by the idea that the French army was exhausted, and so they left the possibility of a counteroffensive on their right flank out of their calculations. They failed to reckon on the Americans’ presence, which enabled the French commanders to take measures which they might have hesitated to take with their own resources alone.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13948, 29 July 1918, Page 5
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