REVIEW BY MILITARY EXPERT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11367, 13 October 1917, Page 5

REVIEW BY MILITARY EXPERT.

REASON TO BE PLEASED, IMPROVEMENT EVERYWHERE. . (Received Friday 8.50 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 11. General Maurice, reviewing the situation, says: “We-have every reason to be pleased with the latest advance.” He describes Colonel Moraht’s statement that since the 20th September the British lost half a million men, as grotesque. There was not that number of men engaged in the whole series of battles. Since January our total casualties in all theatres had not exceeded half a million. The submarines had not delayed our plans in France one hour nor kept back a single round of ammunition. The British were better fed and more liberally supplied and equipped than ever before. The importation of war materials into France; which before was 11 tons hourly, had risen to 24 tons in the last week of September. Railway and canal facilities ' for transporting supplies were now enormously improved.