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If the weather now improves we should not be surprised

to hear of the British taking up the attack and of big doings in our sector ; but the impatient public here must remember that everything depends upon the absence of rain and hurricane conditions. They must remember also that there is yet another condition which, though it will not forbid persistent pressure throughout the winter, must tend to slow down the war machine. This is the wasted character of the country reconquered from the enemy. Practically all the houses there have been levelled, and therefore the distances which men have to go to get back to good rest billets become greater and greater as we advance.

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