AN OFFENSIVE COMMENCED
TO SAVE PARIS AND REIMS ATTACK ON 25-MILE FRONT GERMAN RETIREMENT FROM THE MARNE EXPECTED (Australian and New Zealand Cable 'Association.) (Ee6eived July 19, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 18th July. General Foch has commenced an offensive on the front between Soissons and Chateau Thierry. It is expected that the attack will save Paris and Reims. ■ The attack is on a front twenty-five miles wide. j Splendid and rapid progress is being made, and prisoners and guns are coming in. (Received July 19, 8.40 a.m.) The French attacking on the Aisne have gained four miles of territory. Thousands of prisoners have been captured, besides, many guns. ' The French artillery has reached the; German railway/communications, affecting the area west of Reims, i " The offensive was a complete surprise to the Germans. . Thd Allies' guns dominate the town, of Soissons. It is believed that a general German retirement from the Marne is impending.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 17, 19 July 1918, Page 7
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152AN OFFENSIVE COMMENCED Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 17, 19 July 1918, Page 7
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