FRENCH AGAINST GERMAN MAIN LINE IN CHAMPAGNE.
CHAIN OF EXCEEDINGLY STRONG POSITIONS TAKEN. Router. LONDON, S*pt 29. Reuter's correspondent at French headquarters remits: We have now arrived at the enemy's main line of resistance, which is hardest around Somme-Py, on the River Py. The arrival of our infantry oh the river marks the successful termination of the first phase of the attack, which is being pressed with unremitting vigour, the advance made being over five or six miles of extraordinarily difficult ground. The loss of the series of Buttes in the vicimty cost the Germans most heavily in killed, besides nearly 8000 prisoners. The chain of positions captured was exceedingly strong, the French ha,ving to storm a naked wall of buffs which the enemy had been fortifying for years, every inch being entrenched. By noon the French had crossed 30 linea of trenches. The hardest fighting occurred round Tahure, where French 75's and 155's played a most important part in the battle. They were brought within a few thousand yards of the front in astonishing numbers unperceivfid by the enemy. >
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16969, 1 October 1918, Page 5
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