GERMAN CONFUSION

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11614, 13 August 1918, Page 8

GERMAN CONFUSION

ROADS CHOKED WITH FUGITIVES SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMBERT’S STROKE. Received August 13, 11 a.m. London, Angus 12. Correspondents describe the confusion in the Montdidier pocket as exceeding oven the scenes on the Marne. The raids are full of exhausted fugitives, mingling with a disorderly procession of waggons, limbers and ambulances. There are fires and explosions everywhere. General Humbert’s strokei/vill probably force the Germans to send soutli some reserves, whose counter attacks have slowed down the rate of advance on the northern battlefield.