A GREAT GERMAN DISASTER

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11613, 12 August 1918, Page 5

A GREAT GERMAN DISASTER

100 MILES OF FRONT SISLOGATED. :

HUNS IN DESPERATE SITUATION

Received August 12, 10.5 a.m. New York, August II

Mr Frank H. Simmomis, the leading American military expert, writes:—“The German defeat between the Somme and the Oise has already attained the proportions of a great disaster. Within three days Foch’s second blow has dislocated more than one hundred miles of [the German front. There is evoiy reason to believe that the German withdrawal will reach the old Hindeuburg lino. The occupation of Ohaulnes paralyses lias railway lines within the collapsing salient,. The Germans east of the line—from Ohaulnes to Noyou—are in a desperate situation; tney may escape hut will be forced to leave behind guns and munitions. A great victory has been won, the consequences of which may not yet be pleasured. ” THE, LATEST PRISONERS AND GUNS Received August 13, 9.25 a.m. ? London, August 11. Thirty-six thousand prisoners and five hundred guns have already bee u captured