PROTEST AGAINST EXAGGERATION OF ENEMY POWER.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1160, 30 October 1917, Page 5

PROTEST AGAINST EXAGGERATION OF ENEMY POWER.

(A. 4. N.Z. k Reuter.) (Eec. Oct. 30, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 29. An authoritative statement says: The exaggeration of the enemy's strength is unfair to the Russians and Rumanians, who, despite the Russian collapse, still retain as many enemy divisions on their front as there were when the Russian offensive began last July. It also suggests that the Italians were left to bear the brunt of a numerically superior enemy. This is not the case. Tlic Italians were fully prepared for the attack and confident of success without the help of the Allies. They were in considerable numerical superiority to the enemy on the whole front. This exaggeration also gives an entirely false impression of the enemy's power of transporting large forces from east to west in a short time.