The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-09-06
Fighters Pause to Adjust
Lines on West Front

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e London, Aug. 80. "The last week
has been marked by q, pause on all the
western fronts-a pause which was in.
eyitable after the great successes of
the previous week, pause accentuar.
ed by the bad weather that affected
the operations all the way from the
North sea to the Italian seacoast," said
Major General r. B. Maurice, chief di-
rector of military operations at the
war Office in his weekly talk to the AS
s0ciated Press today.
At the moment it is the Italian
front where the situation is the most
interesting. Here also, after really
important advance, there now comes a
pause pending the readjustment Of the
artillery positions. There is much
more to be done during these pauses.
The problem is. whether General Ca
dolna will be able to get his guns
posted for the renewal of the opera
lions before the Austrians get up ade.
quate reserves, some of which are be.
ing brought from the so-Rumanian
front. That is the problem in the
pauses In all these battles-the race
between the preparations of offense
and defense.
Teuton Reserves Engaged
In Flanders the process of wearing
down the Germans by continuous bonn
bardment, continuous air fighting and
continuous infantry raids, is being
Kept up and is having a far greater eff
rect than the man in the street rea-
lies. This effect is shown in the con-
slant necessity imposed 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, as the text books tell
us, the first part Of the days battle
was an attempt by each side to draw
IL and exhaust the enemys reserves,
thus preparing for the second phase
OF the day, namely the decisive attack.
So we now are in the first phase of
the Flanders battle. We are exhaust.
ing with good success the German re-
serves, and later will come the second
phase to which we are all looking for.
ward confidently.
Russ Retreat "RegrettabIe'
"On the Russian front there has
been another 'regrettable incident:
namely, the voluntary withdrawal OF
certain Russian units near Czernowitz.
The result was negligible, but it serves
TO show, in conjunction with General
korniloff's speech, the state to which
the Russian army has come, and maxi
es 1t even more remarkable that the
Germans have been unable to achieve
more. ~.
"On the Rumanian front, Field Mar.
shall Won Vackensen's attack failed,
owing to the gallant Rumanian stand
and the necessity of Austrian with
drawals to the threatened Italian front.
In the last month, have received a
remarkable number of letters from the
United States showing how widespread
is the belief that the British have let
the allied and colonial troops do most
Of their fighting. This is part of the
German propaganda in the United
States. j have prepared for you few
statistics to show how far this Is un..
true. St9f
AT the present moment the British
troops In France are six to one as COM
pared with all overseas troops, and the
total casualties in France throughout
the war have been in the proportion Of
six and one-half British to one over
seas. In the Ypres-Lens fighting since
July 81. the casualties have been nine
British to one colonial"