CHAMPAGNE OFFENSIVE
FORMIDABLE FOSITIONS
CAPTURED
CONQUEST OF CHAMPAGNE HILLS
LONDON, 27th September.
A French communique states: Yesterday's attack in the Champagne developed successfully from the Smppe to the Argonne. ' The first German positions, consisting of a formidable network of trenches and barbed wire over three miles in depth, which the enemy had not ceased to strengthen since 1915, were brilliantly on a front of 22 miles, and passed at certain point. Navarin Farm, the Buttes of Souain, Montmuret, Tahure, and Mesnil, and the villages of Tahure, Ripont, Rouvroy, Cernay-en-Ddrmoise, Servon, and Nelzicourt, which were organised as points d'appui and obstinately defended, were captured on the first day of the battle, after severe fighting. "The prisoners counted exceed 7000. The enemy did not attempt to counter-attack during the night. The attack was resumed this morning, and is proceeding satisfactorily, despite the bad weather.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1918, Page 3
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