ALLIES GAIN OF TERRITORY

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11611, 10 August 1918, Page 5

ALLIES GAIN OF TERRITORY

TWO HONORED VILLAGES

RECOVERED.

ALLIES'FRONT SHORTENED

Washington, August 9.

The Allies on the Marne front have regained fifteen hundred square kilometers of territory. Two hundred towns and villages have been recovered. The Allied front has been shortened by 33 miles. The Germans used thirteen divisions to cross the Marne, and nsed seventeen in retreating therefrom. Additional reinforcements from Flanders have reached Vesle.

U.b. ARMY JUBILANT,

Washington, August 9

The United States Army officers rejoice at Sir D. Haig’s blow, and declare it completes the evidence of the Allies’ control of initiative. Foch has no intention to allow Ludendorff a respite in which to organise a new offensive.