REVIEW OF THE OPERATIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17092, 25 August 1917, Page 7

REVIEW OF THE OPERATIONS

GENERAL MAURICE'S IMPRESSIONS. GERMANY'S INTERNAL TROUBLES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, LONDON, Angnsfc 23. General Maurioe states that the recent British advances were all carried out according to programme. The mud rendered the Langemarck advance unexpectedly difficult. The recent German reinforcements numbered twice ours, but owing to their losses and exhaustion we are now right into Lens, in the south-west and north-west. The Italian great battle is proceeding satisfactorily, and there is a possibility of very great and important consequences. Russia is making a stand in the southwest without any present signs of being forced back. The prospect altogether is more honeful. The Germans claim that between July 19 and August 19 they captured 41,000 men. This is not surprising, for the Russians are withdrawing in a state of mutiny, only half of them fighting- Against those figures the Allies in three days have taken 25,000 men, and in the past 20 days 32,500. To maintain the people's confix3 , ence the German communiques contain more and more fiction. Their railway traffic and stock are breaking down, and coal is getting short. The public are beginning to feel the pinch, and the tone of their papers shows many . anxieties.