GERMAN EFFORTS.

Northern Advocate, 18 July 1918, Page 3

GERMAN EFFORTS.

ONLY SMALL GAINS.

LOSSES TOTAL 100,000.

FRENCH RETALIATION.

POSITIONS WON BACK. ■ i ll— "BJ Ii » " '" ' " l *~ J VICTORIES IN ALBANIA.

A raid carried out by the New Zealanders in. the Hebuterne vicinity ended in the capture of over 30 Germans and al dozen ma-chine-guns. In the Villers Bretonneux sector the British have effected an improvement of their lina. A It is deduced on various evidences that General Hmdenburg , (who apparently is still very much alive) has not yet d.sclosedlhi. pur--1 Jose on the West front, though the attempt to capture Rhe»ms and sms straighten the German line quite however, has been foiled by the perception of General Foch, who had anticipates the move and made his dispositions accordingly. There is much significance in to-day's report anent £c CzechoSlovak movement, A big merging of their forces .s i«i the Irkutsk government of Siberia, and there is a prospect of the Austrian war prisoners in Serbia joining with the project. It is also asserteTauthoritatively that 110,000 Czecho-Slovaks urtend to help Ac Allies on the West front, journeying thence v.a Vladivostok. Latest advices show that the German assault on I the whole front from Chateau Thierry to Rheims has been vevwed with-redoubled vlolenS but To far this has not resulted in the h» first* . day" gaTnstnd is proving a ruinous policy in the decimat.on of h,s Large numbers of disabled enemy tanks are strewn about the battle area, and hundreds of German corpses arc hanging in the defenders' wire entanglements. n(fon<i : vt > ' Less has been gained by the Germans in the P««ant off- ns.ve than in any of the four preceding assaults. At the Cha * eau ™£X bend of the Mfrrne the Americans hold «»»P , « to " i g»"£ t W thu, defeated the enemy's purpose so ** Mt !^j£*Le£ h£* very order.