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Show I AT ROULERS. IN BELGIUM. Twith the Belgians at Roulers and astride the Roulers-Menin road, there should develop something approaching a. break-through. Heavy forces should tfc thrown into that sector to enlarge the wedge and allow o a rear attack on the German trench lines as far south as Lille. Evidently the Belgians have ad-wno0r ad-wno0r oif?ht miles, which should bo a HR. forward movement deep enough to car-ry car-ry them through the permanent tyench system, wire entanglements and machine gun concrete blockhouses of the enemy. Once across the defen-sivo defen-sivo lines, the progress of the allies should be rapid, If the forces are pow-erfully pow-erfully constituted. Hl The Belgians have two routes which can be followed. One south to Lille and the other north to Bruges, cutting oft the U-boat base on the North sea. Belgium has a very small sea front, as Holland holds all the coast from a point a little northeast of Zeebrugge. We estimate the distance from Nleu-port Nleu-port to east of Zeebrugge at not more than 32 miles. This discloses how im-portant im-portant is every mile gained in the Roulers district, which is less than 20 miles south of Bruges. One day of an offensive such as the German organ- ized on Marcli zi iasu vromu umub m allies on this front to outflanking positions posi-tions all along the Belgian sea coast. no |