WESTERN OPERATIONS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 3 August 1918, Page 8

WESTERN OPERATIONS.

ANGLO-FRENCH ADVANCE

IMPORTANT HIGH GROUND

CAPTURED

ENEMY'S RETIREMENT MADE

DIFFICULT

(Received Aug. 3, 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 2. The Franco-British have captured the watershed between the Ourcq and the Aisne, on a five-mile front. They have advanced three miles and now command the country as far as the Crise valley: This will probably deprive the enemy of the facility for retirement and' make it difficult for the enemy to avoid retirement to the Vesle. Some circles consider that this is the turning point of the summer campaign, and possibly of the whole" war. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable'Assn..