BIG SUCCESSES.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1915, Page 5

BIG SUCCESSES.

Everybody knows how this jiew'&etr! man offensive has failed. It have made no headway at all agonist the .formidable forces holding tliQ entrenched lines or' the Allies, but .for the criminal expedient of the poisoned gas. That surprise enabled the Germans to make ft. little headway. It was their last aoe of trumps, ft reiT dirty card kept tip their sleeve for the last emergenev. 'But the Allies are now prepare I for this new game, are e<[uipp : : ■t! «• 'vr* to retaliate in kmd, >i'l t.l -i o f •'iv troops, not the " •*. ! e.f all, of the Canadia;. . . ■wed the •atfom She Hreneh and i'ritish on their part hare now assumed a vigorous offensive. Miles of German trenches have been gallantly rushed east and west cf Yprcs. Larger numbers of German prisoners! have been taken, including a significant proportion of officers, than in any fighting la the west since the retreat from the Marnfe. The ground the Allies have gained tihey hold, and will eontiiiiie to hold. There is eveiiy promise that the ■vigorous onslaught will be pressed decisively. General Jod're has igiven up nibbling, and taken to biting seriously. The Allies have forces and supplies adequate to .their task, and the Germans have to meet them after suffering huge losses, incurred durin'g their futile ndvaiye at Ypres. It is quite certain that if the Allies press on swvessfoly. us they are doing now, the German lines will be broken to suoh an extent that ire shall have a repetition «f the retreat