NEW FIGHTING TACTICS
DEEP CHANGE IN CHARACTER. OLD TRENCH,METHODS ABANDONED LESSONS FROM THE GERMANS. DEEP DEFENSIVE FRONTS. ADVANCED POSITIONS LIGHTLY HELD. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received July IG, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, July 15.
The Daily Chronicle's Paris 'respondent stales there- is a deep change in the character of the lighting on the Western front. Both sides enjoy the shelter of the old trench systems in the front line, but the prodigious field works which typified the Hindenburg line have been abandoned by both sides. Instead of the old ditches and dugouts, which the aviators easily mapped and massed batteries of heavy turns wiped out. both sides have introduced „ method of defence called "eehelong-nn-nt in depth." The defensive front has become an area of 10 miles in depth, of which the most advanced positions are held lightly by scattered machine-gun posts and little forts. The middle parts are held by the main bodies and the rear by the re>erves. \\'e have learnt much from Hie enemy • hirluu Ihe last Ihree months, but Ludeiidorfi's latest invention has this wakness -it proc Is by spasms. While the best German divisions are hein« trained for the next onset inferior units are placed in the front line, of which we arc easily the masters.
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13811, 16 July 1918, Page 5
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