REMARKABLE ALLIED GUNFIRE
LONDON, 16th July. The Morning' Post's Paris correspondent says : "The offensive has not met with anything like the success achieved on the first day of its four predecessors If the Germans relied on the element of surprise they were woefully disappointed. They had no sooner begun their artillery preparation than masses of Allied guns took up the challenge,, with such good effect that there is reason to hope that the Germans suffered much more from our counter-fire than did our infantry from theirs. The violence of the Allies' reply may be gauged from the fact that the sound of the guns was never so distinctly heard in Paris before. The windows rattled in every part of the city. This did not happen during the three previous offensives, when the guns were much nearer the city." ■ ■ , , ■
Mr. Gerald Campbell reports : "There are no further enemy gains. Our counter-attacks resulted in slight gains on the Marne. The Germans admit the severity of the resistance. They claim thirteen thousand prisoners."
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 16, 18 July 1918, Page 7
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170REMARKABLE ALLIED GUNFIRE Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 16, 18 July 1918, Page 7
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