A NOTABLE TRIUMPH

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11615, 14 August 1918, Page 5

A NOTABLE TRIUMPH

FRENCH CAPTURE LASSONY MASSIF.

Received August 14, 10.5 a.m. New York, August 13 The French have conquered the Lassigny-Massif. A GERMAN REPORT. London, August 12. Wireless German ■ official.—We repulsed violent attacks northward of

thevjSomrae and “between the Somme and"*Lihons. The enemy advanced beyond Lihons, but our counter attack threw him back to the northern and|eastera edge of the village. We took Halln. During July we ~«hot down 51S aeroplanes, of which 230 are in oar possession. We lost 129. EICHCEX’S KILLER EXECUTED Reuter. Amsterdam, August 12. Dauski. assassin of Yon Eichorn, has been executed.