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PREPARING THE GERMAN PEOPLE. A SEMI- OFFICIAL ADMISSION, f (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) deceived August 28, 8.55 a.m. PARIS, August 27. A semi-official note in a German newspaper attempts to reassure the public regarding the Franco-British offensive. It says:—"lhe French and British have used against us everything - they possessed in the way of men, guns and ammunition, and the only result alter a fight lasting 48 days, which they endured the heaviest sacri- ~ .'ices, is the bending in of our line, leaching at the most pronounced point hall a centimetre on the map. The worst that could happen to us is that we might be obliged, as on the ATarne, to abandon portion of the conquered terrltoiy in order to straighten our front, and enable us to ofier in well organised positions, on a front two centimetres to tlie eastward, the same resistance we are maintaining on the Somme."
1 his is the first German semi-official admission of the possibility of their abandonment of their present lines.
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Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13270, 28 August 1916, Page 5
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