DEFENDING THE RHINE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11611, 10 August 1918, Page 5

DEFENDING THE RHINE.

" LAST ‘STAND ARNSY.”

HALF A MILLION PICKED TROOPS New York, August 9 A correspondent nn the American front reports that information has reached the Allies that the “Last Stand Army,” of half a million picked troops is being formed by the Kaiser’s orders solely to defend the Rhine.

FOCH’S CONFIDENCE,

London, August 8

Marshal Foch, replying to the Commonwealth’s congratulations on the recent succesess, says; I have no doubt we shall secure a decisive victory.