. Review of reviews and world's work. appen for a ven, long time in the case ofthe Noyon salient, because it is ver>- largeand the Allies would have to cut deeply inorder to menace the Germans. If the Germans were compelled to aban-don the Bapaume salient they would have toretire from their first and second and pos-sibly their third line trenches over a frontfrom Arras to the Somme, rather more thanthirty miles. If they were compelled toleave their Noyon salient, they would haveto give up at least fifty or sixr\- miles of a very considerable area beside, irkrlud-ing their territo
. Review of reviews and world's work. appen for a ven, long time in the case ofthe Noyon salient, because it is ver>- largeand the Allies would have to cut deeply inorder to menace the Germans. If the Germans were compelled to aban-don the Bapaume salient they would have toretire from their first and second and pos-sibly their third line trenches over a frontfrom Arras to the Somme, rather more thanthirty miles. If they were compelled toleave their Noyon salient, they would haveto give up at least fifty or sixr\- miles of a very considerable area beside, irkrlud-ing their territor>- nearest to Paris. Now look at the map again and you willsee that the whole German position inFrance is in itself a salient, a huge salient,coming west from the Meusc and bendingnorth at the Oise near Noyon. Hence ifthe British and French were able to make avery deep cut into the German lines, ad-vancing as they are from west to cast, theGermans would presently h3\c to leave all GERMJXY LOSES THE lyiTIATITE—BRITAIN BEGINS 173. MOVIN<^ A bi.^ GLN INTO POSITION IN THE FIGHTING ON THE WEST FRONT IN FRANCE
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