MASSIF NEARLY MASTERED

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 43, 19 August 1918, Page 7

MASSIF NEARLY MASTERED

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ON THE ¥ESLE LINE

(by telegraph.—united press association.—copyright.)

(hetjter's telegram.)

PARIS, 16th August.

Reuters correspondent at French Headquarters, writing on the evening sf | 15th August, states : "General Humbert's troops gained ground to-day. The! most important of these gains, though small in extent, are on Thiescourt massif, the capturing of the .Attiches position, so-called after the Attiches Farm, and the Monolith Farm, which crown the crest of a height of 550 feet, and which dominates the Divette Valley and all the German positions and roads below. A couple of miles to the north-west is the crest crowned by the Chapel of St. Aubin, which the enemy holds, overlooking Plemont. With Attiches Farm and Monolith Farm in our hands, we are vfery nearly masters of the massif, and the position may become so difficult for the enemy that his whole left to Noyon and the Oise will be endangered. ' (AUSTBALIAN-HEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, 17th August. The Anglo-French advance is continuing. The British are pushing eastward to the north of the Amiens-Roye road. The Echo de Paris announces that the Germans are preparing to evacuate the Hoye-Lassigny-Noyon line. LONDON, 16th August. Latest reports state that the Germans have retired from the villages of Serre, Puisieux, Beaumont Hamel, and Bucquoy. They have also slightly retired eastward of Vieux Berquin and Meteren. The French are now five and three-quarter miles from Noyon, which is completely overlooked. Correspondents record that the retreating Huns left many death-traps, mostly ordinary objects, which they expected the advancing Allied soldiers would take as souvenirs. These articles were electrically attached to mines and bombs. One chateau, was completely wired with death-traps. NEW YORK, 17th August. The New York Times correspondent at the American front states that the Germans launched a violent combined gas, artillery, and air-bombing attack against the Americans on the Vesle section. The Americans held all the ground.