| Show THE ALLIED DRIVE GIGANTIC INDUSTRY operations EXCEED EED IN MA magna TUDE THOSE OF LAS LARGEST EST I 1 IN N enterprise pmj preparation armr for proem operations operation 1 of allies along the SO somme took four months manthe briton claim heavy gl gain paris the off official tin I 1 report regard ing fag the abe latest attack against the ger sums mails lays etes stress so on the comple complexity Ity of the preparation tor for a military opera gou on an a grand sea scale e s exceeding in its dezi multiplicity ot of detail I 1 that t ol of the larg st leda industrial enterprise besides the tha plan ot of attack rod and the choice ot of the he battle ground an estimate of the licau number ur ot ol effectives Is 11 necessary T there also are 1 a hundred contributory details to be studied such auch as aa the enemy a system ot of do defense f an the plan jug of a artillery in co rela tion the building of roads mad bridges and ferries where time none existed before and ad the abe accumulation of material munitions and ana stores the observer baya that the tha preparations preparation oft aft his char acter tov mo for the ile present operations along alone IQ the somme took four months after the tb enemy s front had been vl cleared of at observation balloons and air raft craft french aero D planca time made a win corn plate photographic survey ot of the whole front every day so abhat that each h olens evening n map 0 was drawn draw the state let of the tha enemy a trenches frenetic fact and the ceas am made I 1 in their ruction the me result 11 t of uie the artillery fire was waa check mt ed up carefully every how hour and it it we waa s p principle I 1 pl not to start voll an infantry thick attack except opt on f favorable ground every variety of gun bite baa it its special work to do so some sweep so away the barbed wire ire others destroy my trenches emolice tr and ad still others deal with the assem b biages ages of enemy troops summing up the results result of fiete fifteen I 1 days daya of at fighting on no the so somme treat front the t is observer ob b te says ears th the french troup trompa aers able to advance on a front of ten miles and it ad f fief tb a a half to a m maximum mu depth of six miles taking from t the e germans eighty square sit kilometers ourn etem of highly organize organized d ikid ad fortified lor tined field fi lit work mmble resembling g fortresses we have already gathered fro in th tha field eighty five live guns many of at large caliber a hundred machine guns gnu twenty at six meet mortars and ad luand ties that of material which it I 1 is not act yet poa fine sit bible to chast estimate th ast w we e be haie a taken officers and W men imm and ad this 1 is only 1 the tha wart start os of la abe battle |
