-36-#669, Eighteenth from London.              
 
                                                            
 
 
By telegraph and is Captain R.F.G. Blackner of the Royal Artillery. 
                 He gave an eye-witness account.            
 
                                                            
 
 
Now I turn a very different theme and story. I turn from the 
      pink and ochre panorama of Athens and the Piraeus scintillating 
      with delicious lie and plumed by the classic glories and endless 
      miseries and triumphs of its history. This must give way to the 
      main battlefront of the war. In this my chief contribution will 
      be the recital of a number of facts ad figures which may or may 
      not be agreeable in different quarters. I have seen it suggested 
      that the terrific battle, which has been proceeding since 16th 
      December on the American front, is an Anglo-American battle. 
      In fact however the United States troops have done almost all 
      the fighting and have suffered almost all the losses. They have 
      suffered loses almost equal to those on both sides in the Battle 
      of Gettysburg. Only the British army corps has been engaged in 
      this action. All the rest of the 30 or more divisions which have 
      been fighting continuously for the last month are United States 
      troops. The Americans have engaged 30 or 40 men for every one 
      we have engaged and they have lost 60 to 80 men for every one 
      of ours. That is a point I wish to make. Care must be taken in 
      telling our proud