GERMAN BLOW FALTERS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14574, 9 April 1918, Page 5

GERMAN BLOW FALTERS.

ALLIES' MOMENT AT HAND. ENEMY'S ADVANTAGE- I?jiSSIN,G. LONDON, March 26. : i Renter's/ correspoaident at • French headquarters writap-:'v. These first days-of the battle will probably mark-.the highwater level of the German advance. The enemy still enjoys 'the advantage of offensive. He-is a"blo to 'select the point' at which -his blow will: be aimed, whili> we ai'6 obliged iir disperse our means oft defence to cover all the points where the blow might falLv'That aidvantage, as .the l.iistory of > the war has tanght us, is one .that qmckly passes. Every hour brings us :nearpr the momerit ■wh^n: the reserve 'of .the Allied : armies will be r.eadv to intervene:--*' Before tha£ moment . comos ...Hifjdenburg must have achieved a decision;- or bd prepared to pee,jt:g<> again.st ; him. . . . '.;r; „ ,So far, with three times the human material and nieans.' employed by the -Ffench .a-nd. the British armies m, their offensives last" 'year,/ the enemy has.' gained proportionately not more' than did -the Allies m their series of brilliant attacks beginning at Vjmy Ridge and ending at Malmrtison Fort. All siich operations mail t;' m a g«ain of ground exactly iiroportionate io the accumulation of men, material and means, behind 1 the attacking front. 'As the: Germahs have b^en able to accumulate figrpater force behind 1 their front than' the. Allies; have ever been able to achieve., their advance has been propor"tiohately swifter and greater than ours. It will certainly be brought to -a stop as its initial momentum, is absorbed' by the '"exhaustion of battle. "" ' y ' •