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Show ON WEST FRONT LONDON, Oct. 12. Major General Frederick B. Maurice, chief director of military operations at the war office, in his weekly talk yesterday with The Associated Press, after an optimistic review of tho last week's work on the British front in Flanders, said: "We have every right to be confi-; dent when we see what our men have! done. But the fighting is hard ana" wo do not think that the present series of battles in Flanders is going to end the war. There is a great deal more hard fighting before us. "The word 'steam roller' which was so often used in the early days of the war in connection with tho Russian array, is exactly the right word to characterize the British advance in Flanders. It is an advance not rapid, but insistent, irresistible. "I want to say a word about tho work which has been done behind our lines In preparing for these battles. I .don't wish to minimize the U-boat threat, but I can truthfully say that nothing the U-boats havo done has delayed for a single hour our work in France: it has not delayed a single round of ammunition or a ration ra-tion for the soldiers. The British army was never better fed or supplied sup-plied than today." , Commenting on tho German report that the British had lost a half .million .mil-lion men in the present series of battles, General Maurice said: 'The figures are grotesque. We havo not had that many men engaged. As I have already told you, our casualties casual-ties have been very light and the German Ger-man casualties are known to havo been 75 per cent greater than ours." |