A THRILLING NARRATIVE,

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 1 April 1918, Page 5

A THRILLING NARRATIVE,

(Australian Cable Association.)

PARIS, March 30. The Crown Prince's rush in the Oise valley affords a thrilling narrative of the successful Anglo-French effort to recover a most serious position. The advances both at Noyon 'and Montdidier have now been arrested, the latter by- <a brilliant bayonet charge by the Chasseurs a-pied, resulting in an advance of one and a half miles and the recapture of the villages of Courtemarche, Assainvillers ,and Mesnil St. George.

British infantry and cavalry in the Oise valley fought shoulder to shoulder with French infantry, enabling General Petain to rush in his reserve of infantry and artillery. a