GERMAN PRESS TRIES TO EXPLAIN AWAY FAILURE.
DESERTER DECLARED TO HAVE BETRAYED PLANS. OPEN ADMISSION OF BREAKDOWN OF OFFENSIVE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. AMSTERDAM, July 2L The German newspapers display the utmost bewilderment at the shattering of Ludendorff's offensive. Some charge deserters with betraying his plans. Reutor. LONDON, July 21* The Cologne Gazette, after declaring that a deserter utilised his knowledge of the planned operations to betray the Fatherland, says that it is impossible to deny that the offensive failed. The German people anxiously and patiently await the new decisions demanded by the situation. The paper adds: We must concede loss of prisoners and guns, but the enemy's leading idea, the break through, was not attained, and the counter-offensive was held up before it attained a strategic advance worth mentioning." The Frankfort Gazette states that General Foch warded off the German blow at the expense of great losses, but the counter-offensive failed, freedom of action remaining in the German hands. Dutch papers regard the battle as a serious blow to Germany, amounting to an allied victory. The Telegraaf says that anything may now happen.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16909, 23 July 1918, Page 5
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185GERMAN PRESS TRIES TO EXPLAIN AWAY FAILURE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16909, 23 July 1918, Page 5
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