THE CAMBRAI LESSON.
(Received Thursday, at 10.45 a.m.) PARIS, Wednesday. M. Marcel Hntin, writing in the "Echo de Paris," says: "The lesson of Cambrai has been of the greatest value to the British command.
General Ludendorff is now forced to admit that his famous storming troops from Hanover, Brunswick and the Rhine Provinces have been comjpelled to relinquish most of the ground they had taken.. The chief mistake of General Byng's attack was that cavalry did not intervene in time to push home the preliminary success. Later the British Guardsmen' held their own against the whole German army. The Guardsmen unaided freed a great number of prisoners, and recaptured most of the guns and all the tanks left behind in the withdrawal.
The spectacle of the Germans being powerless to obtain any success on, the British front is extremely comforting.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 44, Issue 134037, 3 January 1918, Page 5
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