FRENCH CLEARING SECTOR BETWEEN VESLE AND AISNE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16971, 3 October 1918, Page 5

FRENCH CLEARING SECTOR BETWEEN VESLE AND AISNE

'ATTACK AND ADVANCE ON FRONT OF EIGHT MILES. BATHE CONTINUES ON WKQLE OF CHAMPAGNE FRONT. Austria and N.Z- CM* Association. . LONDON. Oct. 1. A French communique reports: Between the Ailette and the Aisne we advanced east of Ostel. Italian units operating north of the Aisne carried Soiipir. We attacked and made an important advance on a front of eight miles to-day between the Aißne and the Vesle, capturing, ' despite resistance, Bevilleon, Romain and Montigny-sur-Vesle. North- .% ward we reached the outskirts of Meurival and Ventelay. Sixteen # hundred prisoners h&ve been counted up to the present. | The battle on the whole Champagne front continues. On the left I we flung back the enemy from the village of St. Marie a Py, advancing : h beyond it. NoHh of Somme Py we reached the bend of the National W road. Further east, after violent fighting, we captured Aure Village P: road. Further east, after violent fighting, we captured Aure Village and the plateaus and woods. In the centre, we carried Marvaux and I made progress to the outskirts of Montmoix, and also enlarged our f gains north of Sechault, and in the region of Bouconville, west of the ft'.' Fores* of the Argonne. f§ '. An American official message -says: Between the Mense and the it; Aisne we maintained and consolidated our newly won positions, 1j : despite counter-attacks and heavy gas artillery bombardments, t _•'■''■■■ , ' '