MORE GUESSING BY MAURICE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 44, Issue 13599, 25 July 1918, Page 5

MORE GUESSING BY MAURICE.

(Received Thursday, at 11.55 a.m,.)

LONDON, Wednesday

General Maurice, writing to the Daily Chronicle, says that the fact that the Crown Prince had reorganised his forces between Soissons and Chateau Thierry indicated that he intended to follow up the advance across the Marne by an attack upon Paris, probably coupling therewith another attack between Amiens and Montdidier. Therefore, General Foch's counter stroke not only wrecked the German offensive, but has xrpset the enemy's plans for the future. General Foch's new attack on tho Montdidier front completed this upset, and even if only a local affair, it, together with our own recent progress at Villers Bretonneux, should remove the danger which, has hung over Paris for six weeks. The Crown Prince's efforts to extricate himself from the mess wherein, he is involved will all have an important effect on the general situation. Counter-attacks, improvised in the midst of battle in order to save a desperate situation, are always costly. It is certain that the German losses were higher in the last few days, and the exsausting of reserves is greater than on the first day's abortive offensive. The situation is so improved from every point of view that we may, without extravagance, regard, General Foch's counter attack as the turning- point, of the 1918 campaign.