EXPECTANCY IN PARIS

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14865, 12 September 1918, Page 5

EXPECTANCY IN PARIS

i CONJECTURES' ON THE NEXT j MOVE. j j THE ENEMY'S PREPARATIONS.

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1 (Received Sept. 12, 0.40 a.m.) ;' Paris, Sept. 11. Well-informed opinion does not credit Marshal Foch with intent to reduce the Hindenburg Line by direct frontal attack. All Paris is on tip-toe with expectation of the next move. Many are | closely watching General Mangin'sj operations around St. Gobain Forest, but others are .looking for events beyond Rheims and even, beyond Verdun. It is known that tho Germans have ! immensely strengthened the HindenI burg defences, and the railways behind ! the new lines liave been practically 1 doubled. Many new sidings have been ! built, and every station is crowded with i trucks filled with munitions and su.p----1 plies. j Behind St. Quentin powerful new J trenches have been created along the canal, and there are vast new systems of barbed wire everywhere,, and also an enormous1 number ,of reinforced concrete shelters, some large enough to

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hold .a hundred, but mostly containing garrisons of eight or nine men. The roofs of these fortlets are four or five feot thick,, and they are declared to bo able to resist repeated hits by eight to ten inch guns.