MAKING THE DAM.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11501, 2 April 1918, Page 5

MAKING THE DAM.

GATHERING OF IMMENSE FRENOH ARMIES. AT THE POINT OF PERIL. London, March 31. Mr Murdoch writes; ' Immense French armies, scarcely touched since the Champagne offensive, are gathering in the threatened sectors, and growing in strength and preparedness daily. All manner of guns are ploughing their way thither. The Germans have deeply entrenched from the Sonune northwards, and lightly entrenched elseAfter his failure to roll up the Third Army, Hindenburg has shifted his main forces southward He is now committed to a plan lor defeating the French reserves as they arrive, and opening a road south of the Somme towards Paris