CONCERTED ATTACKS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14688, 21 August 1918, Page 3

CONCERTED ATTACKS.

ENEMY MENACED ON SOUTHERN FLANK. ALLIED LINE ADVANCING ON OISE. RESISTANCE DESPERATELY HARD ißcuter's Telegram.) (Received August 21, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, August 20. Reuter's correspondent at French headquai*ters, writing on the evening of the 19th, states : — Simultaneously with General Mangin's attack east of the Oise, General Humbert attacked from Le Hamel on the right of the Oise, north of Ribecourt, to Bois des Loges, midway be-, tween Roye and Lassigny. Thus the enemy, who hitherto was fronting west to General Humbert's, Dibeny's, and Rawlinson's armies, is now menaced on the southern flank. General Mangin's two attacks on August 17th and 18th brought his troops at one point barely two miles from General Humbert's; and the conjoined attacks of the two armies secured the line, which is advancing on both banks of the river, and on our left is causing the enemy serious anxiety for his positions between Bois des Loges and Lassigny. The German resistance is desperately ! hard. We have reached a stage corresponding to that of the Germans at the end of March and beginning of June, when our reserves began to arrive and restored the advantage of the initiative by successful flank attacks. The enemy is now using his reserves, and, however he may grudge tho necessity of having to waste them in a defensive battle in which the end is only a prelude to retreat, he still possesses | some thirty fresh reserve divisions, in addition to four hundred thousand [youngsters of the 1920 class-.