MASSING MEN AND, GUNS ALONG WEST FRONT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14235, 1 March 1917, Page 4

MASSING MEN AND, GUNS ALONG WEST FRONT.

, ) -« LONDON, JanUftry 20. Feverish, preparations are going on along the whole West fronts for 'what may be the greatest battle 'in history. When the signal' for tho outbreak 'will be given depends oh the -.weather man qlnelly. The troops of both antagonists are laboring incessantly tv organise the ne\v campaigns. ' From the Kohiigc'hc Zeitung's correspondent at the 'frcrtit conies word ; that "Without the- slightest doubt a inijHity .-iccumulal'ion^'of Aval' material and •shiTli itu at troops is taking placo behind' the AUied front." At the samo time reports 'persfst that tile' Germans are^concentrating imnieike numbers of troops at certain points along the front. ' French' attention ' i« centred on the massing' yf (Jerman forces acaoss the line frum^Basl^ Switzerland, and the construction m that sectdl^of a strategic railroad. The belief i* jftrong ill-, French, military quarters that tho OcrnwiK [ha'vo .made all- plans' for ,an attaqtc of unprecedented violence .on thii French lines m ''Alsace; between .Belfort ijijd, Basfe, by^ \ray ' of jSwitzcrliind, „ the expressed con/idence of. .the Swirtrf Federal Council that their country , tvas safe'^Tom invinsioii by' sin J. power, jt is known that more and more troops are beiiig mobilised .'ftlgHg, th,e. bqrd^r.,, ._