ADVANCE IN CHAMPAGNE,

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16980, 14 October 1918, Page 7

ADVANCE IN CHAMPAGNE,

FRENCH BEYOND VOUZIERS.

GERMANS LOSING ST. GO3AIN

(Received 1.80 a.m.)

A. Hid N Renter.

LONDON, Oot. 13.

A French communique states.- We entered Vouziers, eight miles north-west of Grand Pre, this morning. We continued our progress along the whole Champagne front We hold the general lino of the River Retourne and the road from Pauvres to Vouziers.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. ISO a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 13.

News from the west front emphasises the difficulties in which the enemy finds himself. Our latest advance has turned the Hunding line, which means that the enemy's next line of retreat will be, roughly, behind the switch line from the River Serre to Sissoruie, the latter point being 10 miles east of Laon. The British are now well in the rear of the Hunding line. The enemy will certainly evacuate the St. Gobajn massif immediately, and will also be compelled to straighten out his line between Lille and the Scarpe. It is difficult to know exactly how he will join up these two lines. Tho enemy's d»y of retirement according to plan is past. The American forces have joined hands north of the Argonne, in the Grand Pre Gap.

A messago received yesterday afternoon stated that the Germans were retreating rapidly on three sectors, the most pronounced being in the Champagne. The French advanced considerably beyond Vouziers, eight miles north-west of Grand Pre, practically unopposed.