VICTORY MADE IN GERMANY
BASED ON A PERVERTED STATEMENT. (United Service.) Received August 3() ) ] 20 a.m. ? LONDON, August 2!). General Monash, in an order of the day to the Australian troops on the eve of battle said: "To-morrow all the Australian divisions will engage in the largest and most important battle over undertaken by an Australian force. What you have so brilliantly executed is but a prelude t<> this greatest culminating effort. Owing to the completeness of the plans and dispositions, the magnitude of the operations and the depth whereto we intend overtiming the enemy's position this battle will be one of th« most memorable of the whole war. There is no doubt the capture of our objectives will inflict blows that will make the enemy stagger, and bring the end appreciably nearer." The Germans secured a eopy of the order from the body of a dead Australian, and published it,* widely changing and eorrupting the text, claiming it as a jiroof of the unparalleled efforts made to break the whole German army, and finish the war, thus basing their claim to victory on a perverted statement.
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13850, 30 August 1918, Page 5
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