because our Government let its policy be dictated by militarism and underestimated the forces which had to be arrayed against us owing to the attempt to realise the criminal ambition of the Pan-Germans.
We have been miserably deceived.
Leaflet No. 6 (between pages 96 and 97).
WHAT THE ALLIES HAVE WON.
Back on the Line of Last March.
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The whole ground has been twice won and twice lost by the German armies. How much blood has been spilled, and how much misery has been caused? For what object? Think it over!
On the other side of the leaflet was the following:
Further Successes of the Entente; the German Retreat continues.
During the last few weeks there has been fighting west of Cambrai and St. Quentin. The battle reached a degree of vehemence fully equal to any previously experienced in the course of the whole war.
The Germans and British attacked simultaneously; both sides fought with stubborn determination, but
the British gained the victory.
They beat off the German attack, made many prisoners, and killed an enormous number, thanks to the manner in which the German troops were driven forward under murderous machine-gun fire.
The British attack succeeded. The German front was pressed back closer to St. Quentin.
Ten thousand prisoners
were made and a number of guns were captured. The outer works of the Siegfried Line are in British possession in spite of the determined and plucky attempts of the German troops to hold them. The latter did not retreat "according to plan," but because in open honourable fight
they got the worst of it.
The operations of the Entente forces have in no way reached an end, as reported in the German newspapers a week ago by military writers. The German forces were unable to stand
