AMERICANS TAKE STOCK
GAINS EXAMINED
LONDOiS 1 , September 15H An American otlicial states: the St Alihiel sector our advane^B -units maintained touch with the ei^| my force and repulsed a counter-jM tack in the region of Jauly. We now able to estimate success obtaJ^B ed during two previous days by tH dash and vigour of our troops and valiant French divisions, with whi^H we fought shoulder to shoulder, jfl the fact of the fortress being sfl tacked on both sides of the salienS and we effected a junction and secunH the results desired within iwentfl seven hours, besides liberating ov iH 150 square miles of territory and taking 15,000 prisoners. We captured a j mass of material and. over 100 guns j of all calibre and hundreds of machine | guns and trench mortars were taken, despite the enemy having 1 tttTr ing the retreat burned large stores.
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Grey River Argus, 17 September 1918, Page 3
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