With the BEF., Oct. 24 With the countryside already waterlogged and the rivers rising, chances of the Germans to launch major offensive in an effort to break through shortly have been flooded out, After two days of dry weather, torrential rains deluged the Western Front, During the night the baron meter indicated a continuance of the heavy rains, The countryside was under water, Trench-lines were half-filled with water.
Military authorities said that the rising waters in the rivers would prevent the Germans from launching their expected major offensive this autumn even if the waters' would recede, They: explained that Germany's modern motorized war-machines would bog down hopelessly in the spongy ground,—United Press,
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