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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1936.
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WHEN
WENTY-TWO years ago to-day Britain went
they were warned by the railway chiefs that the only way of im proving their position was to gain possession of Reims, on the other tinnk, and of the railways that ran through it.
rrent offensive to
Heuce Hindenburg and Luden- to war, on a Monday Bank dort drew up plans for another widen the Holiday. In this article, we salient by breaking through al tell how, reith the Second this corner. Battle of the Marne in 1918, It was a stroke, not to win the the Germans, who had with war, but to safeguard themselves." stood the armed forces of the ' After it had succeeded. Luten- whole world for four years, dorf intended to switch his re- couver begun to crumple and finally ww-winning thrast against the northword 'and' make his Then come the Bedish in Flanders. Arrive collapse.
Armistice.
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Examina- abundantly provided.
The Second Battle of the Marne, tims of photographs taken behind near Reima like the first, was decided by a the German Hes counterstroke-a form of action showed great dumps of ammuni- which proved far more effective tion which camouflage had failed under the condition's 1914-18 to than any offensive.
the
The opening was provided in each case by a German move,
In 1914 the German right wing hud wherled inward across face of Paris in a premature at- tempt to roll up the flank of the French armies and close the not around then.
THE TIDE
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An Imperial War Museum photograph taken at the Battle of the Marne.
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Prisopers who were taken al German attack completely broke milfed that vast preparations were in progress
down.
Al- So he accepted Petain's
The advance soon slackened off opening surprise was gestion, but with the idea of strike when the ing at Sobssons before the Ger- over, and the Germans managed to
hold Fotssons. Historically, it had an amusing Then, on the evening of the 18th, dde, and it came to las christened mans could strike.
"Gouraud's maneuvre," after the prismer who broke down under
local army
tominander who gruelling cross-examination fave away the exact time when the reived the plaudits of his country
men for his clever ruae, hombardment Was to
French raki
The move had expused their own German 1) to the garrison of Parts, begin. which, suddenly emerging from the Paris defences, had struck so
shrewdly as to apset the German
machine.
A Huge
in brought
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But the French were forearmed as well as forewarned. They had
their drove Iwo trick up counter the coming German bid.
The firs
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The truth, however, is that the
medieval knight-
more
however. WEN
But by the 20th the other French Petain.
as he had direct armies had joined in the offen- cautions, and charge of the forces, they were 'sive along the whole circuit of the stil in waiting when the German salirnt from Soissons to Reims. attack of July 15 was delivered.
Compelled To
Small Tanks
Abandon Gains gallant Gouraud, a man who had lasses Of errant, had only adopted it with
This many-sided pressure com- the spirit of a Kreat reluctance and after much persuasion by Petain, who made
Three days later, on July 18, pelled the Germans to abandon the
to save themselves, was new form of war as a business rather than as a they were launched to the attack, ground they had gained in order
and their blow was all the more elastic defence, and the, second a knightly tournament. New Salient concealed concentration of tanks
Fighting desperately to hold the With the failure of the German dendly because it caught the Ger-
two corners, they managed to with- un the other side of the salient, offensive, the way was open for mans when they were deeply com-
draw to a shorter line along the In July 1918 the opportunity near Solssons,
the French to complete their dis mitted on the other flank. may be traced to the Germi
Led by masses of small tanks Veste, although they left 25,000 offensive of May 27.
The first came into operation on comfiture by revealing the second
16. The French forward trump.
nearly four hundred in all the prisoners and vast quantities of This had smashed a great hole July
Weeks beforehand Petain had French and American infantry of steres in the Allies' hands.
They had escaped a disaster, but. in the French front north of the position was held by few men Aisne, hnd swept over this river only sufficient to deceive the at- asked Forh to concentrate a large Mangin's army advanced in the ther had only postponed the hour
of defeat. Fast tackers and upset their smooth body of reserves on the western darkness and mist of the early and the Vesle, but had at
from this moment the initiative. Come to a stop on reaching the advance while the real resistance Bank of the salient, ready to make murning.
By nightfall they were four passed to the Allies, and the Ger- Marne-leaving the Germans with waited for the enemy in a strong a cuunter thrust if and when the position behind, out of reach of Germans made their next attack.
forward and menacingly man morale would rapidly decline. a huge new salient to hold.
Foch was more intent on tak milles Their forces inside it'were de- the mass of the German artillery.
This trick was most successful, ing the offensive himself than on close to the vital rail centre of under repeated blows, until the
Soissons.
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Last year an aged, Italian spinster £5,000 to her 13 eats, She
should be half the age of her bride- left
room plus seven. Work it out for also left £250 to a cats' home. yourself.
Some thieves will take anything. the American gangster, Twice as many marriage? take When place in Britain in the third quarter Dillinger, was embalmed they found of the year as in the first quarter, his brain had been stolen.
A generation ago the last quarter
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Harris-
A complete sawmill at bury, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.. was The late Lord Fingall entertained stolen in a night. The saw weighed 50 or 60 eats at Killeen Castle. They 200lb the engine 1,0001. were provided with special saltes of !rooms-not outhouses.
Residents of a New York suburb stole the wood paving blocks for
Alfonso, ex-King of Spain, is firewood. the poorest of all the kings in exile at the moment.
and men
An English professor, after mak- ing a lot of experiments, reporta that noise, no matter how intense, rarely disturbs the person teko makes it.
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Counterfeiting in the United States has Increased our hundred per cent, since the depression.
A city law in Topeka Imits any The percentage, of suicides among
con household to the maximum posses- barmen, brewers
with the Heuer trade is sion of five ents.
other trade, doctors, dentists and
Mr. Garner, of Camden Town, neeled London,
collected bultons of higher than in uns
come soldiers uniforms. He huid speci- Next mens from every army in the world. lawyers. He sold his collection to, an Ameri- jean millionaire for £30,000.
is the
A shopkeeper near the Monument, in London, insared his premises against the risk of the Monument
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thura- crashing." duy are the days on which most A fat woman in an American suieldes take place. May circus took out as insurance polien most popular month, against her losing weight.
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Porcupine salads,
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A golfer on. a Cheshire in killed two water wagtails with one ball.
At Newark a 21lb. trout was killed
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A Chicago radio-dramatist was proud of his English accent. He tried to insure it for C20,000.
Mr. Rockwell Sayre hated cats. When alive ho offered £100 to the person who brought him the great- Test number of dead cats. When he died he provided in his will for a packet of sweets to be sent to any famous... person who also disliked. cats.
of the Zoological Society to prove the culinary resources of the French colonial empire.
A Winnipeg. groundsman found 250 golf bulis neatly packed in moss under a timber slack. A gopher (like a squirrel) had collected them. A spectator at Deauville golf thinking they were eggs. course was wearing a monocle, A rais-hit golf ball struck the monocle, The spectator lost his eye,
A man carned £3 a week for carrying round a bucket of water at Toce meetings for bookmakers to dip. their sponges in.
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