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Description
Mr. Morrison describes how the Germans were deceived into weakening their defenses at Amiens. As a result of this, the Canadian army advanced seven miles on the opening day of the Battle of Amiens.
Transcription
Germans had a very active, what do you call it, spy system. They knew where we were going as soon as we did and that confidence had to be broken. We were told we were going north and our 27th Battalion was sent north so we went south and opened the Battle of Amiens and went seven miles the first day. It thinned out their strength and up north. They were waiting for us up north and we went south. On that day the German high command said to prepare the people for peace because we had lost the initiative.