IMPORTANCE OF AMERICAN STROKE NORTH OF VERDUN.
DIRECT LINE OF ENEMY COMMUNICATIONS MENACED.
" AIRMEN TAKE DOMINATING PART IN THE BATTLE.
(Received 5.5 cm.)
PARIS, Oct. 12.
Experts consider th& American victory astride the Meuse of tho utmost importance, as it threatens the Mezieres-Metz Railway, which fa the only direct communication between the Germans in the northwest of France and those east and southeast of/ Verdun. The 250 Frmtch and. American aeroplanes which participated in the .battle, 'besides bombing the enemy unmercifully, co-operated in regulating the ganSre, supplying ammunition to advanced posts, dropping smoke screens to conceal the ; movements of infantry,- and attacking observaviadn balloons far behind the lines. •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16980, 14 October 1918, Page 6
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