GERMANS HAVING A BAD TIME
PREPARATIONS IMPEDED BY RAIN. (Beater's Telegrams.) LONDON, May 14. -Renter's British: Headquarters _ C(^ r " respondent,', writing on the 14th mat., says: The s - heavy> rainfall during tne past 24 hours must have seriously impeded the plans and preparations. Thel enemy are now confronted with, the same conditions in Elandeis as "we experienced on the Somme battlefield, when our offensive J" "I s heavily handicapped. We know defcnitely that they are in many places hay- - ing : a really had time. This knowledge will emble onr soldiers to "bear their share of discomfort with cheerful equaeverywherejare good and supplies abundant and regular, the Germans have " in. sonje places to flounder across "widft triacte- of ; slush iand brinmiiiig' shell crater*. V
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 113, 16 May 1918, Page 5
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