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In late December 1916, reports from witnesses led to British and French air reconnaissance further to the south and in mid-January 1917 British intelligence concluded that a new line was being built from Arras to Laon. By February, the line was known to be near completion and by 25 February, the local withdrawals on the Fifth Army front and prisoner interrogations, led the Anglo-French to anticipate a gradual German withdrawal to the new line.
When British patrols probing German outposts found them unoccupied, the Allies began a cautious advance, slowed by German destruction of the transport infrastructure and the troubled transport situation behind their own lines, caused by mounting difficulties on the Nord railways and the effect of overloading and the thaw on roads. The Germans had the advantage of falling back over good roads to prepared defences, protected by rear-guards. The German armies made an efficient withdrawal, although the destruction accompanying Operation Alberich caused a considerable amount of indiscipline.

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＞In late December 1916, reports from witnesses led to British and French air reconnaissance further to the south and in mid-January 1917 British intelligence concluded that a new line was being built from Arras to Laon. By February, the line was known to be near completion and by 25 February, the local withdrawals on the Fifth Army front and prisoner interrogations, led the Anglo-French to anticipate a gradual German withdrawal to the new line.
⇒1916年12月下旬、目撃者の報告により英仏軍の航空斥候調査隊はさらに南の遠方まで赴くようになって、1917年1月中旬に英国諜報部は新しい戦線がアラスからラオンまで建造中であると結論した。2月までにその戦線は完成に近いことが知られて、2月25日、英仏軍は第5方面軍前線上の地域的撤退と囚人尋問によってドイツ軍が新しい戦線に段階的な撤退をするものと予想するに至った。

＞When British patrols probing German outposts found them unoccupied, the Allies began a cautious advance, slowed by German destruction of the transport infrastructure and the troubled transport situation behind their own lines, caused by mounting difficulties on the Nord railways and the effect of overloading and the thaw on roads.
⇒ドイツ軍の哨戒基地を徹底調査している英国軍パトロール隊が、基地は空になっているのを発見したとき、連合国軍は用心深い前進を開始したものの、ドイツ軍による交通輸送基盤の破壊と彼ら自身の戦線背後における輸送状況のいざこざによって手間取っていた。それは、ノール鉄道路上の進軍が困難であったことと、過積載の影響および路面の雪解けなどに起因していた。

＞The Germans had the advantage of falling back over good roads to prepared defences, protected by rear-guards. The German armies made an efficient withdrawal, although the destruction accompanying Operation Alberich caused a considerable amount of indiscipline.
⇒ドイツ軍としては、後衛部隊の庇護を受けて、整った防衛状況の良好な路上を退去するという利点があった。ドイツ軍は効果的な撤退をしたが、しかし、アルベリヒ作戦に伴う破壊が、かなりの無秩序・無規律を引き起こしていた。

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