EARLY DAYS OF THE WAR
THE ANTWERP EXPEDITION. ARTICLE BY MR CHURCHILL. , (Rec. Nov. 20, 10,55 a.m. > S LONDON, Nov. 19. Mr Churchill, in the Sunday Pictorial, begins n, stirring narrative' of the effort) to relieve on enable Antwerp to defend, itself, by means of.-the"'promised AngloFrench army of 60,000, -including two French divisions, until the great -'battle southwards was decided. He. points out that the main 'Frenchr army at that moment" was disengaging itself from hard-won- positions on the Aisne, and about to begin the northward- journey, intending to regain positions on the left of the French line and have marched to Lille. Had the British and French." Go- . vernments* hopes materialised, the. .Allies' lines -west would have been 'drawn, through Antwerp. .Ghent, 'and Lille. "' v- -
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Nelson Evening Mail, 20 November 1916, Page 5
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