GERMANY'S STRENGTH
ON ALL FRONTS.
COLONEL REPINGTON'S ESTIMATE
INFERIOR GUNNERY
(The Times.) Received May 4, 9.15 a.m
LONDON, May 3
Colonel Repington, the military expert of the Times, estimates that the Germans on all fronts at 4,500,000, also 500,000 on the lines of communication and 1,000,000 in depots. The German morale on the West front is still respectable. The high command continues the substitution of machine power for man-power wherever possible, but we hold the superiority in machine power and artillery. The Arras battle gave the impression that the Germans lacked guns, but had plenty of shells. Their gunnery is distinctly inferior to ours, which is particularly deadly. In counter-battery work our airmen reported 1589 direct hits on German guns during the four months before the Arras battle.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13475, 4 May 1917, Page 5
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