FRENCH STEADILY ADVANCING.
■ CAPTURfe OF GUISCARD AND 9 HEIGHTS. 1 Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sept. 7. 2.5 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 6. The Morning Post's correspondent at French headquarters writes : General Humbert's army; steadily advancing, has captured Autrecourt -heights, east of Noyon. They were of great strength. Every position of vantage bristled with machine guns. To the north lay the Canal dv Nord, and here General "Humbert concentrated his artillery and infantry attack against the canal, - which the Germans gallantly resisted. There was fighting of hand-to-hand character throughout Tuesday. Finally on Wednesday morning the V infantry crossed the canal and entered Guiscard, and the ; heights of Autrecourt were rendered untenable, being captured on Thursday. f ~
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14703, 7 September 1918, Page 6
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