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THIS 144,004 341 meters, sad HIS MILL is built upon a property consists of the following buildings and machinery :-

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the thorough rehearsal of the operation, the use of models from which commanders and units learn the exact missions con- fided to them, the concentration of a formidable ma34 of gun, the exact registration of batteries upon their targets thanks to the co-operation of gunners, airmen, und survey companies, the pre- ฟอ Seliminary bermbardment and the testing of not only constantly increasing means its results by raids until the position is THE ANDERSON the British side, but constantly reported ripe for assault, the clearance of

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Ta thy successive advances of the British Armies on the offensive, from Xente Chapelle opwards,

on

the wire, the co-operation of tanks, air men, and miners in the actual battle, the resistless rush of the infantry behind the creeping barrage, the limitation of infan try action to precise and not too distant objectives, and finally the rapid consolida tion of the position when captured, an art,

must be an immense satisfaction to their

professional pride that they are creating such an excellent army to oppose them It must be costing them some four millions sterling a day to do so, but after all the war was theirs, and they must know what is worth their doing.

To this we may add that one of the correspondents at Headquarters notes the success is received with immense sutis faction by the Army, tempered by mild surprise that it shuld have been so easy. It has made into certaints the confidence which already existed that we can beat the Germans out of any position in which they choose to entrench themselves. That our men were better fighting men than the Germand we have, long known, but

improving tactics horn of hardly won MUSIC CO., LTD.ence. We could not. fissuredly,

have won an Arrus or a Messires in 1914, or 1016, writes the Military Correspondent of The Times," because the means were wasting, and in 1917 we have not only infinitely better war-equipment than is those years, but all the important in which our troops excel. A British German military-bluster had so impressed experience of 116 which completed the attack of this character is almost rekist the world, and we so depreciate ourselves, education of gur Armies and has been lean, but against a hard fighting enemy that we have been slow to believe that urned to the best account. The prudent like the German, against defences pre-we were the masters of the Germans at and lipated offensive, of which Arras and pared long before with the utmost skill, the mechanics of the game, and could Messines are typical examples, is the form and against such an opposing mess of guns organise victory better than they, could," of aggressive action which consorts best as that which the enemy cap bring up. and were their superiors in sheer bard with the present situation and with the thanks to the loactivity on the Eastern hilting. Now we do believe and know it. relative numbers engaged on each gde, front, no part of the preparation can with It is not too much to say that in mere It has brushe 124 complete triumphs, safety be omitted or without excessive loss, and has spered us Generals Petain and Foch, who have won momentum nothing that the Germans ularred over technical perfection; and irresistible the great sacrifices and disappointments so many triumplis from tactics similar to which more souring, strategy has brought those

have ever done in the way of an offensive Arras and Messines, will to all armies on the Western front since assuredly not have been backward in

wis other than amateurish compared with the initial rush of the numerically rejoicing that the doctrine of the Allied

The French have superior, German armies of 114 was directing staffs is now completely in

been quick to recognise the splendour of stayed at the Marne and at Ypres. When, accord.

the success. Finally, we may note that as on April 3, and June 7th, the pra We quite see theoilerman need to exalt operation has been the way in which our not the least remarkable thing about the dent short-range offensive is combined Hindenburg to the skies, but we have not with a complete and wientific, utilisation noticed him soaring there. He and his that our new front, being slightly shorter, gms have followed up the infantry, so of all the new weapons and contrivances, Ludendorf have fought the Campaigns covered by an even greater weight of then we find the enemy hot only beaten, the West, since they took charge, like artillery than was the front before the but prostrated and reduced to a position very ordinary generals, and except in of manifest inferiority, At the feet their boasting and misleading reports we

battle, begun. possible cont to ourselves we do the enemy can find nothlog in which they excel To the greatest possible barm, and when, a losa 300,000 men and,500 gans when they at Meaxines, he allows us 86 hours to admit that they are nearly equal to us consolidate our position, and then cousin strength is not exactly a proof of com terullacks, the rest is particularly dis petence, and on the whole we think that ustrous to him..

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