SITUATION AT LASSIGNY

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

SITUATION AT LASSIGNY

RGYE BECOMING UNTENABLE

A FORTY ‘MILE FRONT CONFLICT

London, August 13

The enemy is exhausting his reserves, and is drawing troops from the lines and extending divisions on the flanks. This process cannot be continued long. The French now occupy the whole crest of Lassiguy massif. It is considered inevitable that the German line northward of the ridge must fall back and Roye become untenable. Its evacuation is expected within forty-eight hours. Guns were brought up more quickly than was anticipated, and Noyon will be under fire immediately. Chaulues may be held a day or two longer, but the evacuation cannot long be postponed. Tlie battle continues violently on the whole forty-mile front between tha Oise and the Aucre. The maximum depth the infantry penetrated is thirteen miles, and the average depth niue to ten miles. Tha Crown Prince and Prince Rupprecht are draining their lines elsewhere in order to obtain reinforcements.

The British captured four hundred guns and the French 250, The British prisouered 20,000*and the French pdsonered 10,500.