SPLENDID & RAPID PROGRESS
ENEMY SURPRISED ■ GREAT CAPTURES OF PRISONERS AND GUNS ■ ■ GERMAN RETIREMENT . ■ EXPECTED The stirring news is transmitted to-day that the Allies have opened a counter-offensive in France and aro breaking into the western flank of • • the• enemy' salient thrust 6011 th to the Marne. Soissons is stated to be effectively dominated by the French guns, and the Americans are credited with the capture.of WOO prisoners. Tho French officially report a consider- " able advance along a twenty-five mile front, from west of Soissons to the Mar lie. It is stated that the British, on tho. northern front, aro also ; attacking at several points.'
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 259, 20 July 1918, Page 7
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104SPLENDID & RAPID PROGRESS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 259, 20 July 1918, Page 7
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