AMERICAN ATTACK WEST OF MONTDIDIER.
VILLAGE AND TWO HUNDRED PRISONERS CAPTURED.
(Received 5.35 a.m.) WASHINGTON May 29. A communique from the American army in France on the Picardy front, says that the American troops attacked on a one and a-quarter mile front, and captured the village of Cantigny, five miles north-west of Montdidier, taking 200 German prisoners. They also inflicted severe losses in killed and wounded on the Germans. The American casualties were relatively small— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 128, 30 May 1918, Page 5
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