HOLDING THE WEST FRONT.
GERMAN GENERAL STAFF INSISTENT. V/ILL MAKE SASRIHCES IN THE EAST. Australian and N Z. Cable Association. LONDON, July 22. (Received July 23, at 5.5 p.m.) The Rotterdam correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that within three weeks 340,000 Germans have been sent to the West front, of whom 100,000 were fresh reserves and the balance soldiers who have recovered from slight wounds. The German General S.tnff considers that every other consideration is subsidiary to holding the France=Flanders line, and is prepared to sacrifice not a little territory at certain noints of the Eastern front if necessary to withdraw troops for the West.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16754, 24 July 1916, Page 5
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106HOLDING THE WEST FRONT. Otago Daily Times, Issue 16754, 24 July 1916, Page 5
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