ATTACK AND COUNTERATTACKS CONTINUE.
Franco-Americans Attacking Between the Ourcq and the Marne
The Times
f Bee July 23, 8 25 p in V,_ London, July 22 I Attacks and counter-attacks con- |', , tiiiue fiercely. I' * ll is t&timated that the Germans k~ have klf-a-million troops on a front t of fifty miles. Six new divisions have L been identified between the Aisne I tod the Marne, making .twenty-one divisions. The German* strongly pushed at Grissoles, advancing half a mile. The British divisions operating southwest of Rheims capturad five Jmudred gaas. The French captured forty-five guvs ' and four hundred machine guns south of the Marne. -' ' The Franco-Americans continue /- \ iitfeacking vigorously between the "I Gurcq aud fch9 Marae. "~: ~ ' Jlaekeasea's chief of staff, General yon Heel, and other of Mackensen's "" officers are directing • operations *- -between the Ourcq and the Aisne, r jjutitisnot believed that JMackenrj. v iien is present. -: ~,V Prince Rupprecht's group is esti--**related to cootnin aevoDty divisious, ".mostly fresh troops. \\^]' Ihe Auatraliaus helped ia the f^ capture of Meterea and continue to j, liakea prominent part in the Somme t' r : operations.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 7013, 24 July 1918, Page 3
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180ATTACK AND COUNTERATTACKS CONTINUE. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 7013, 24 July 1918, Page 3
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