PRECIPITATE ENEMY RETREAT FROM CHATEAU THIERRY
EVACUATION RESEMBLES A DISORDERLY FLIGHT. NORTHERN ROADS CHOKED WITH RETIRING TROOPS. GERMANS ABANDONING THE SOISSONS HIGH ROAD. Australian and N.Z. (Received 10.40 p.m.) PARIS, July 22. The reconquest of Chateau Thierry, which is one of the pivotal points of the Marne salient, is a serious blow to the Germans, whose positions at Soissons, the other principal pivot, are also known to be critical. The French joyously entered the town, from which the German retreat resembled a disorderly flight. The road to Fere-en-Tardenois was choked with retreating columns, who were frightfully harried by aviators with bombs, and machine-gun fire. The enemy is also retreating at other places on the Chateau Thierry-Soissons road, and has evacuated Oulchy-le-Chateau. General De Goutte reports We have broken the enemy's resistance on the Courchamps plateau, north of Chateau Thierry, while the French have crossed the road in the neighbourhood of Hartennes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16909, 23 July 1918, Page 5
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151PRECIPITATE ENEMY RETREAT FROM CHATEAU THIERRY New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16909, 23 July 1918, Page 5
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