FRENCH COMMUNIQUE

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11614, 13 August 1918, Page 2

FRENCH COMMUNIQUE

FURTHER PROGRESS REPORTED

London, August 11

A French communique states;— Yesterday evening and night we further progressed on the whole front between the Avre and the Oise, and carried Boulogue-La-Grasse, Massif and the east of Bus. Further south we penetrated the gwcoded region between the Matz-and *the Oise, and reached the outskirts of La BeUiere and Gury, took Mareuil-La-Moctee and advanced'about three-kilometres north of Cheyiucourtt.

THE SIBERIAN EXPEDITION

JAPANESE ARMY PREPARING. Times. Tokio, August 11. The activities of the General Staff indicate extensive military movements. Although it is s-dd .the expedition will be limited to a *few thousands, daily reports irom Siberia show that the situation calls for tens of thousands. If is clear that the Czechs and nossazks cannot continue to hold the well accoutred Magvars. Geimans and E.ishevik;. The'Japanese Government realises the situation in Siberia. lienee the preparations for re;-T instead of mock assist ince implied in the occupation of Yladivcstcck.