FRENCH DRIVES

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1918, Page 7

FRENCH DRIVES

! IMPORTANT GAINS ON

AISNE FRONT

PROGRESS IN CHAMPAGNE

CONTINUES

HEAVY GERMAN ATTACKS.

. , V 'AUS. AND N.Z CABLE ASSN. AND REHTER.)

;■ . (Received September 30," 11 a.m.) ' v ; LONDON; 29th-September. ! A French communique states: Our repeated attacks on. the plateaux north, of' the Aisne finally forced the enemy to retire towards the Ailette, and we are pursuing the. German '■■ rearguards. Bast .of the Aiene at' AEemant and; JqUy we 'occupied thfe village and th 6 southern otttskirts of the Forest of Piaoh, and captured Yaudesson, Cha.vi--giion, ..and Fort Malmaison. :.'-. Further, south we made, considerable-progress on the plateau, north, of. Vailly. v: •..-. ':■ The: Gerraaiis in' the Champagne furi' ouily counter-attacked on our right, arid desperate' ifighting ie proceeding in the fibuconville region, and; oh the heights south of Gratreuil : our • troop 3; in the centre and on the left continued to progress, particularly north, of the; C!hallerange railway, and, captured Manre. We reached the; eastefn outskirts of Ste. Marie-a-Py. Our losses 1 were slight; ■•