THE LAST OFFENSIVE
CANADIAN GENERAL’S STATEMENT (By Teßgraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) OTTAWA, August 20. Sir Arthur Currie, the new InspectorGeneral of the Canadian forces, in a speech said that on August 1, 1918, the War Council decided to fight only nine more battles in the effort to free the Paris-Amiens railway. Then the Allied forces on the Western front were to make their positions secure till this spring, but the smash opposite Amiens was so successful that it was decided to finish the war.
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Southland Times, Issue 18623, 22 August 1919, Page 5
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