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
on rough "sherly have been deeded Atter two days of dry weather, torrential rains deluged the Western Front, During the night the baro~ meter indicated a continuance of the heavy rains, The countryside was under water, Trench-lines were half-fled with water.
'Military authorities' said that the rising waters in the rivers would prevent the Germans from launch~ ing 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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