Show ORNE A REGARD GAINS MADE BY AT HEAVY COST AS unimportant assert that an inflection of the uni un i sha shakable kable german front hardly noticeable even on maps of largest scale berlan A report issued from tho german army headquarters with regard to tho the battle between the anglo rench forces and germans in tho iho somme region legion of prance france Is published in tho the german newspapers it says contrary to former wars in chichi he destiny of nations and continents Is often decided by one battle and in the space of a few hours this world war brings battles which go on for months without an important being decided such la Is the engagement being fought on oil the river somme the attacking powers without any ally doubt conceived and fi planned lanned a battle of the greatest style destined tes tined to change radle radically illy the general situation on tile the war theatres theartres the atres of 0 three continents what Is the result an inflection of the unshakable germah front hardly noticeable even on maps of the largest scale the gain of this inflection according to calculation cost about men the enemy has not even obtained the conquest of and baraume bapaume Dap Bap aume tile the fact that these figures offer sharp contrast to the result reached up to the present li Is the reason why the entente powers now affirm that they did dia not plan to break through but only to detain german troops on the western front this Is tho the success of the somme offensive undertaken with till all the worlds means and with the highest hopes tho the result of the battle therefore can be stated as for follows lowB tho the enemy did not succeed through the german lines neither did he crush the german forces which would have meant the shak ening of the german west front the enemy did not even obtain the modest alm aim of detaining a sufficient number of gernian german troops on tho the western front in arder to impede a great german notion action in another war theatre conquered and anali liberated transylvania are proofs ot of this |