Fooling The Enemy

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 18656, 26 March 1918, Page 2

Fooling The Enemy

GEIIAIAN INTENTIONB FRVSTRATEaJ.

LOiNtUOJS", Mod-ch 21 Air. Phillip GibW :—--'.The position of some of our batteries waa akglhtly changed to avoid the German ihomibardoneint. This proved effective, tihe eiieany poured.a i'nigihtful deluge of high explosives on empty emaplace- • meaifcsi A - nuouber of field batteries were,' however left to cover any withdrawal of. the; outpost line, and these heroic gunners served their batteries to the last and until the enemy sweptj. over them. . On this seo|or of the front, north and south of St. Quentjn, and opposite our line further south, the enemy's intention, as we learned from prisoners,was to reach the line of* the St. Quentin canal cto the first day, then advance by quick ' stages westwards. The rate of advance was to be eight miles the first day, twelve the second, and twenty on the third day."—A. and N.Z. Gaible;