ABSTRACT
After the return from Versailles the Prime Ministers of the Empire continued their investigations of the causes of recent reverses and pursued the theme into an examination of the policy to be adopted for bringing the war to a successful termination. The first hint of a coming attack reached the Committee of Prime Ministers on August 1st, when Borden told them that on the previous evening he had learned in the greatest secrecy that the Canadian Corps was being moved from the Arras region to another part of the line with a view to a coming offensive. About ten divisions with three British divisions and the Cavalry Corps in reserve, and eight French divisions took part, supported effectively by large air forces. The method, at any rate so far as the British divisions were concerned, was the one which the designers of the tanks had always advocated, a surprise attack by some 420 tanks without any preliminary bombardment.
