FETCHING THE INDISPENSIBLES

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11616, 15 August 1918, Page 5

FETCHING THE INDISPENSIBLES

SONS FOR CARRYING SUPPLY ROADS,

The Times London, August 18. It is anticipated that French heavy guns will shortly bombard Noyon and cut off the enemy’s main supply roads. ANCRE-OISE FRCNT. GERMAN RESERVES MOVING UP.

TO CHECK ALLIES ADVANCE. I - V & ,I; The Times. London, August 13. • It is authoritatively stated tnat tiie Crown Prince, as well as Prince Rupprecht, are now contributing men to the Ancre and Oise front, hoping to check the Allied advance. GERMAN REPORT. London, August 13. Wireless Gorman official. —We repulsed repeated attacks southward ot Merris. We also attacks northward of the Amiens-Roye road and southward of the Avre. QUIET ON THE FRENCH FRONT NO IMPORTANT EVENTS. London, August 13. A French communique states that there was no important event during the night on the battle front. Several enemv raids in the Vosges in Upper Alsace failed. THE AMERICAN ARMY. INDEPENDENT EXISTENCE. New York, August 13. The New York Times correspondent on the west front, ‘states it is officially that“thelfirst American field army has been organised. It consists®of more than three hundred thousand men of four or five army corps. 2