FRENCH PROCEEDING CAUTIOUSLY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 31 July 1918, Page 5

FRENCH PROCEEDING CAUTIOUSLY.

NOT WASTING- MEN. THE FIGHT STILL RAGING. LONDON, July 29. ' A correspondent at the French front states that the infantry, cavalry, and tanks on Sunday followed up the artillery's destructive work and cleared the ; enemy out of Fere-en-Tardenois, towards the north-east, after hand-to-hand encounters. The enemy's destruction of bridges over the Ourcq has not greatly delayed the French, who forded the shallow stream at several points. The French are proceeding cautiously and not wasting men. Cavalry located the Germans at the Bois Meuniere, where it is anticipated they will resist ' strongly.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, July 29 (8 p.m.) j The latest message states that villages eight miles behind the lines are burning, and that heavy fighting is raging. Sergy was taken and re-taken four times, and is now in French hands. Tho Fourth Prussian Guards attacked the Americans south of Sergy. The American, stopped the assaults dead, with heavy losses. The French surrounded Buzancy, bub were unable to hold it. —Times Service.