THE TOURNAI-MONS LINE.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14861, 7 September 1918, Page 5

THE TOURNAI-MONS LINE.

GERMANS CONSTRUCTING FORTI-

FICATIONS

THtv CRITICS PESSIMISTIC

(United Service.)

(Receive^ Sept. 6, 7..2S p.m.) Londkm, Sept. 5

Dutch arid Belgian reports describe the rapid fortification of the TournaiMons line. It is suggested that this means that Ludendorff is trying to form a stable front in the Meuse, Sam"bro, Tournai, and Lille district, and Messines Ridge, thenco along the old front.

German critics admit that the position is the gravest since the Marne in 1914. They cling to the hope of checking the advance when the front is further narrowed.

GERMANS SEEKING A SCAPEGOAT.

LEADERS IN SHARP CONFLICT

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

Amsterdam, Sept. 5

Reports from Germany reveal a sharp conflict between Hindenburg and Ludendorff and the Crown Princes of Germany and Bavaria. The Crov.^n Princes' party claim that they always opposed the offensive of July loth, and •left the front in order not to bear the responsibility, and instead wont to Berlin and Munich, allowing the generals to struggle out of their own muddle. The Crown Princes are now returning to the front.

CABLE NEWS.

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