ENEMY FIGHTING RETREATING 'BATTLE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14667, 26 July 1918, Page 5

ENEMY FIGHTING RETREATING 'BATTLE.

HUNS LEFT THREATENED WITH ENVELOPMENT. (Reuter's Telegram.) (Received July" 26, T p.m.) LONDON, F July 25. Reuters French headquarters corres-. pondont telegrapbin^.at midnight on the ; 24th, states : The ene'my's position iri the salient south of the Aishe has become untenable. He is fighting st retreating battle while ho gets r away his material. 'He has left the smallest. amount of'artillery oil'his front. '"■ Fere-en-Tardenois is about'tlie' centre of the; salient. An advance of a -few kilometres such as we' made'" to-day would enable us to sweep hick with long-rarige' artillery the whole remaining'area to the east front whereon 1 the Germans 'engage the Frarico-Britishv J' Between Vrigny and the Marne the pressure is steadily relaxing. The enemy hold the Ghateau-Thierry-Soissoris road and are linfking up the frhrit-form-ed between Onlchy:-le;?diateau, :F,ere-en-Tardeiiois, and Montague de^Rheimsr'' , On the eastern side of? tile'triangle the British advance^ north^6f the ArdVe river is. -most important^ threateliing the' Germaris' left with .envelopment, while the 'Franco-Americans, advancing from the Marne, menace the German centre. ■'■-.■-. ' ■ > The British success al Vrigny threatens Fismes, another important ' centre. ', It is estimated that four hundred thousand Germans are fighting within the. triangle whose sides tlie Allies are squeezing. ' Their numbers,, apart from the obfetina-te • resistance ' m rugged country,-'constitute an obstacle'to 'closing the vpinchers at tho. narrow RheimsSoissons pp'cning, but relent Less. Allied 'pressure-' is 'gradually emp%iug thje triangle of-the chemy. '■ ' ' • v