"Reports that' the Germans ore hurrying reinforcements from _positions in the Siegfried Line and Swiss frontier, indicate the gigantic scale of the barile now raging in northern France." writes Reuter's Military Correspondent. "The greater part of German army must now be committed in this one battle," he says.
"The Allied positions in. the Lys area are familiar to those who served in the Great War. They are suitable for defence against tank attacks and motorized units because of the flatness lof the country. One of the dimulties, until the present, was the concealment offered to those enemy units the River Scheldt area. The dykes and canals of Flanders offer splendid natural obstacles, "Further south, the bottle-neck between Amiens and Bapaume has been narrowed by gallant French counte allacks in the Peroune sector. Thi accounts for the enemy's various faltacks at the Courtral and Lys positions. A success of the French
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