TANKS AND CAVALRY USED

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 18, 20 July 1918, Page 8

TANKS AND CAVALRY USED

NO PRELIMINARY BOMBARDMENT. (ATJSTRALIAN-NBW ZEALAND CABLB ASSOCIATION.) . (Received July 20, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, 19th July. The counter offensive began at 6 o'clock on Thursday morning. The ground was favourable for the use of "mosquito tanks," cavalry and artillery, of which full advantage was taken. The French aim at getting astride of the Soissons-Reims railway, so as to enable them to force the enemy back along the Marne valley by cutting their line of supply. It is definitely known that General yon Mudra has superseded General yon Below on the Champagne front. (ADSTRALIAN-NBW ZEALAND CABiB ASSOCIATION.) {Received July 20„ 1 p.m.) PARIS, 19th July. The French counter-attack was a surprise. It opened without a bombardment on a front of twenty-seven miles from the heights north of Fontenoy to Belleau. At 1 o'clock the French had captured the heights overlooking Fon-tenoy-on the extreme left, and had progressed to Mont de Paris, overrunning 1 the .plateau in front of Soissons and reaching to within a mile of the city. ':They also gained a ravine at the River , Orise,,, which runs into -Soissons, on a '! front of five miles to the east of Busancy, which means a maximum advance of five miles at this point. The Army Corps attacking here took 4000 : prisoners and thirty guns, and considerable material;. The Americans took part in this advance.