GREAT VALUE OF AMERICAN VICTORY ASTRIDE THE MEUSE
i (Received October 13, 6.6 p.m.) PARIS, October 12. Experts consider the Americans' victory astride the Mouse of the utmost importance as it threatens the Mezieres-Metz railway, which is the only direct communication between the Germans in the north-west of France and those eastward and south-eastward of Verdun. Two hundred and fifty Franco-American aeroplanes which participated in the battle, besides bombing the enemy, unmercifully co-operated in regulat-. ing the gunfire, supplying ammunition to advanced posts, and dropping smoke screens to conceal the movements of infantry, and attacking observation balloons fax behind the lines.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10100, 14 October 1918, Page 5
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