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FORWARD THE ALLIES ! NO WAITING FOR THE SPRING ADVANCE ALL ALONG THE BATTLE LINE TRENCH F-IBST LINE REGIMENTS RECUPERATED. KITCHENER'S S\v~APuMY READY. (Received Dec. 18, 8.25 a.m.) ■ l • LONDON, Dec. 17. Reports indicate that the Allies' advance movement all along the battle line ias as its immediate oßject-tbe driving out of the Germans from Belgium, the tesult o£ a change plans by. Gefrals Joffre and French which means that the campaign which was to have started in the spring, is now under way It is stated that the Generals, in making the change, were largely actuated by thl discovery that the estimates oi effectives under their command erred on the right side." The French first line regiments needed less time thin -was allotted them, and Kitcheners new army of Territorials is ready for the firing line a_month earlier than it was intended to send them to France.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLVIII, 18 December 1914, Page 5
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