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Show CRITICAL MOMENT HAS ARRIVED London, April 24, 3:33 a m Discussing Dis-cussing the latest German effort to hreak through the British line at Ypres. the military correspondent of the Daily Mail says "The critical moment has arrived. The immediate object of the Germans is the capture of Ypres, which they regard as the key to Calais. Eoi this movement picked troops have been transported to the Flanders front as evidenced hy repeated reports from Holland and the elaborate troop movements move-ments In Belgium. The British blow at hill No. 6u was' an effort to strike first1 If the German report of the capture of four heavy guns Is true, the enemy must have made an advance ad-vance of at least two or three miles, as heavv guns are never placed near the front and often are four or live miles behind the advanced trenches. "The Germans still are hringinjr up large reinforcements, throwing every available man Into the gap They have probabh half a million men available without depleting the eastern east-ern front, and may men might e spared from Poland, where the roads ronder military operations Impossible for the present." |