Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-31
QUIET WEEK AT .
BATTLE FRONTS
EXCEPT 3, ITALIAN
General Mauride's Review
Points Out Strategic
Iskportance IF Lulls.

London. Aug. 81 ..1r.llaee last week
has been marked BY pause on all
the western fronts-a pause which
was inevitable after lhe great success
SEES of the previous Week, pause &C.
centuated by the badIweather that af-
fected the operations all the way from
the North Sea to the italian s~eacoast,o
said Major General r. B. Maurice,
chief director Of mill tary operations at
the war Office i'm his weekly talk to
the Associated PresSI yesterday.
: "At the mornent At is the italian
front where the ssitAItion is the most
interesting. Here $50, after a really
important advance, Ahere now comes
a pause pending th4 readjustrnent of
the artillery POSITIONS. There is much
more to be done lduiing these pauses.
A Race Of Preparation.
The problem is whether General
Cadorna will be abSse to get his guns
posted for thu RENEWAL Of the opera
tons before the Auskrians get up ade-
quate reserves, SOME OF which are
being brought froUl the Russo-Ru-
manian front. Thdat II the problem
in the pauses I'm aYYItftftese f,attIes-the
race between heaIptaparations Of Of
Tense and ~defensssSS
The Flanders Situation,
I'm Flanders the process OF wearing
down the Germans by continuous
bombardment, continuous air-hghting
and continuous infantry raids is being
kept up and is having a far greater
effect than the ma .n9in the street real
ICES This effectyii shown In the con
slant necessity infposed on the Ger
mans Of withdrawing and replacing
units. The best way TO illustrate this
Is to refer to the battles Of former
times in which, an the text books tell
us, the first part Of the days battle
was an attempt by each side to draw
in and exhaust tile ienemy's reserves.
thus preparing forN the second phase
Of that day, namely the decisive at
tack.
The Weeks Disappointing Feature.
s we now are I'M the first phase of
the Flanders battle. YWe are exhaust
ing with good succesg the German re-
serves n later wilNElcome the second
phase to which wei are all looking
forward considerable:
ION the Russian front there has
been another B~'regfetable incident.
namely, the voluntary withdrawal IF
certain Russian unit5 near Czerno-
WITT The result was negligible, but 1t
serves TO SHOW IN Conjunction with
General Korniloff's speech. the stats
to which the RussiarF army has coma
and makes 1t lei Inure remarkabIe
that the Germans hive been unabie
to achieve more.
"on the Rumania front Field Mar.
shal Q MackeitssG "a attack failed
owing to the gallant Rumanian stand.
and the necessity 3 81 Austrian with
drawals to the thseatened Italian
front. $500
Results OF German Proparanda q,
u. s. Seen.
"In the last month / have received
e remarkable number OF letters from
the United States showing how wide
spread lis the belief that the British
have let the allied and colonial troons
do most Of their lighting. This is mart
Of the German propaganda In the
United States. / have prepared Yor
you g few statistics to show how Tar
this is untrue. -
AT the present moment the British
troops in France are SIX TO one ~
compared with all overseas trooons
and the total casualties in Francs
throughout the war have been in3the,
proportion OF six and sone-haIf BritfihS
70 one overseas. In the Ypras-Lens
fighting since July al the 5cas1alfies
have been nine British to n colon
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