GENERAL MAURICE'S VIEW.
(Received Thursday, at 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, Wednesday. General Maurice, writing in the Chronicle, says that it was never a question of pinching out the! Germans in the Marne salient, or the Allies making a large capture of prisoners. The greatest German difficulty had been the breakdown of their communications, and the Allied pressure not allowing relief for the exhausted troops. The dash and energy of the Americans had also been one of the greatest factors- While other armies are all more or less war weary, and there is a high proportion of lads or mid-dle-aged men, the Americans are composed of the pick of the manhood of a great nation. It is doubtful whether the enemy has yet got completed Ms defensive line on the Axdre or Vesle. He is still trying to gain time; hence the sacrifice of men in the counter attacks.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 44, Issue 13605, 1 August 1918, Page 5
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