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BOWING DISSENSION.

UliliAlAN METHODS FAIL

AUSTIULIAXS NOT TRAPPED

(Commonweal th Olficial Correspondent.)

WEST FRONT, April 19. '

Some time before the German offensive started several of us wefe told by one of the- authorities that the German atj tack was expected 'about thu date "when it actually started j that it \vould' consist of at least three drives— li heavy one on Cambrai, a lesser one Un At'mehtieres, and a third great 'attack was' certain to qccur at another jioint: The object of the Germans was definitely stated to be to pin .doWii the British army by heavy blows ill . order to render it unable to help the French* artti thus split the British and French Peoples and Governments. ' It was "also plaiiily , stated that the Germans hoped ntbfre from the moral split than frohi the physical. The Gernlaiisj of course, are trying eveiy ineahs they can think of to create such a split' at the present, moment. After casting two-thirds of the. whole of their strength' against the British, they. .'are 'proclaiming, to the French, through ijieir wireless war correspondence, .'{hat. 'fti'e British are unable to fight. That they are losing French territory, and so forth. Meanwhile, U deliberate part .qf this plait consists .o!, bbmhardiny the Parisians with their lOng'-rjinge gun, and ihe Creation of all possible disturbance and' anxiety amongst the French inhabitants along the -whole front. This ( policy does not leave a stone unturned, m order to create dissension, with 'the simple view of defeating ns as they defeated the Russians, and, as part of it the Germans now are again tiding to sow disseneion bet\yesn Britain and hei' Dbmiiiiohs, German war correspondents have been; instructed to proclaim that Bi'itaht, "a's ; usual, is placing Colonial troops m. the hardest and 'most difficult ..position's. Of ; cour|L», this ponderous sympathy* is hand-^ ed out to us with tlie sole object of de-' liveriug a crushing on 'ihe, head, if we fell into the trap, hutjt is: \yorth while stating frankly what the truth, is as to the employment of Dominion . troops during the present battle. -. ..' j So far from placing Dominion troops.in the mcist dangerous parts of the line,Sir Douglas Haig, though he knew where, the attacks were coming, - had . only: English, Scottish, and Irish troops there.; One is inclined to balieve this is beingdone deliberately: from a, sort of /pride,; for the same reason" which caused only; troops from the British , Isles to be employed m the opening stages of the battles on the Somme *nd at Vpres. No. Australian, Canadian, or .New"^Zealand; troops- were involved m that first tremen-j dnus bombardment and massed assaijlt.j The^ history .of that greatj, battle, as of all great battles, was that *at certain; points at every stage, of it, there were found units ready to fight beyond all: human endurance, ready to fight on, without even a chance that airy living) being except the enemy would ever hear or knovr of their grand sacrifice and deeds. These men, m •every ■ greajt war, have altered 'the course of "history* * : vOn the sixth day of the battle the Australian divisions began to ho thrown m as an important part o.f the British reserves m the southern battle. Also, since when they have shown, .especially at AJbert and Vilers-3retonneux, . that they ars of such stuff as can do what the Third British division,, and Fifthsixth division at Arras, .the Fifth-fifth division at Givenchy, the Ninth division beyond Peronne did ; .. - : snd the. second time they were thrown m the desperate, counter attack on the old battlefield of Messines. Australian troops' far prefer, to be classed as they ai'e classed, with th^h'visions which made these glorious; islands, than accept the double-edged; compliments which £he Germans throw them with a view to their own ruin.

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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14596, 4 May 1918, Page 8

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BOWING DISSENSION. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14596, 4 May 1918, Page 8

BOWING DISSENSION. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14596, 4 May 1918, Page 8

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