SAPID FRENCH PROGRESS ON BOTH SIDES OF AILETTE.
OISE AND ST. GOBAIN FOREST NOW THE OBSTACLES. EARLY ENEMY RETREAT TO CHEMIN dES DAMES HINTED. Australia and N.Z. (Received 6.5 p.m.) LONDON. Sept. 7. Mr. G. H. Perris, correspondent of the Daily Telegraph on the French front, writes: The most remarkable thing in the changed situation is General Mangin's rapid progress on both sides of the Ailette. On the northern half of the sector we are practically back to the old front facing the St. Gobain Forest, and crossing the Oise, which is enlarged by marshes to the width of a mile. It is like the moat of a prodigious stronghold. When von Einem has drawn back to the Chemin des Dames, which cannot long be delayed, the old problem of the St. Quentin-Laon-Craonne fieldworks will recur, but the British success at Bullecourt and Queant shows that this has none of its old terrors. The Allies now have men enough to challenge combats over great lengths of the front.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16950, 9 September 1918, Page 5
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168SAPID FRENCH PROGRESS ON BOTH SIDES OF AILETTE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16950, 9 September 1918, Page 5
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