AMERICAN WAR NEWS.
POSITION ON WEST FRONT HIGHLY SATISFACTORY. ENEMY NOWHERE CLOSER THAN 60 MILES FROM PARIS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received Sept. 9. 8.40 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. General March (Chief of Staff), states that the situation on the Western front is highly satisfactory. At no point are the Allies more than twelve miles from the Hindenburg line. Because of the gradual withdrawal of American troops brigaded with the British and French only one American division is now engaged in actual lighting. The total number of Americans brigaded with the JBritish forces did not exceed at any time ten thousand. Tii© enemy was now more than sixty miles distant from Pans at the nearest point.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4970, 10 September 1918, Page 5
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