SAVED BEST MEN FROM SLAUGHTER.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14774, 30 November 1915, Page 7

SAVED BEST MEN FROM SLAUGHTER.

GERMAN AMD FRENCH THRUST IN CHAMPAGNE. PARIS, October 25. The Temps publishes the following art He in e' ol 'nation of statements which it says have been circulated in Germanv with the otdect of belittling the recent Champagne battle and its effects. I ‘’The Germans expected the French thrust and hoped to pany it, for which purpose they withdrew from the ea dern front two of their lest errps, the Tenth and the Guards. When the action began, the 17th Corps also e - as despatched westward. The direct effect of this was first to slacken and then to stop aPon-eGier the against Russia and give the Rushans a ■ ham-e *o take it in tv; r t"rn. “Further, before the Allies' offorpdv. V-e'n the 11th German t'ta"-, had lee" ordered to Sorvia. One division alreadv had «one tin re. Another, which was about to start, was rushed to France, and 41, e renewed R’ s ian ae‘ivjty tcr-ed tv. P 'rsb-ins f-, fall ba le the +?nd and IV hj Divbioi s, sent to Scrvia on Pertembcr TTer» w-T'* V 8 German battelicm rn M.e \rtfi:; front, and on the 15'h of Oc--1 'fi> ’'er n co"u'eL j “Tn Chamna'nie t'’o.-» were 7 I battalionr , at t'-e 'o-rinnine- rf t'-o month, while on | tb e ixt], ipg vere identified. The manner j ’U whieß th.e t’eoes were enoanod shews ( ‘■''at 4 hev were fl-m" in anvhew to fill un ' 'h l br’afiies. Me trur.d on one part of •mr fro"t a battalion rf infantry, split | into t’ r"e nnu-ual nrours, nenorol arm • by ”o m'!-< bi l oepinw wjtb the tamers n-e 4 ’-e-L, rf 'he f'e-iran staff, which im-provi-e. nothing and foresees everything.”