AVERAGE DEPTH OF FIVE MILES PENETRATED.
GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACKS ALL REPULSED. (Keceived 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 21. latest news is that the French counter-ofTensivc proved highly encouraging, despite the vigorous resistance of the enemy. The average depth penetrated was five miles, while at its deepest point it was seven. The Marne is now in high flood German counter-attacks were made at many points, but. nil
were repulsed. A total of 18,940 prisoners and 3G4 guns have so far been counted, mostly field pieces, but one battery of heavy guns was taken. It woe Hseertained that the Germans used twenty divisions on a twenty-three-mile front.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 173, 22 July 1918, Page 5
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