REARGUARDS HOLDING GERMAN LINES.
FRENCH PRESSING ON
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)
(Received Sept, 2 J 11.50 p.an.)
London, Sept. 2
The First French Army has taken |Roye le Petit, and also ■ Oampagne, northward of Noyon. General Mangin's army is operating between the> Aisne and the Ailette. We captured the villages of Leury, Couehy, -and Thierry, ■and reached the western edge of Crecy.
Two thousand prisoners were captured ton Sunday on the whole front.
' Small local operation's show that only •strong rearguards are holding tlie German lines.
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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14857, 3 September 1918, Page 5
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87REARGUARDS HOLDING GERMAN LINES. Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14857, 3 September 1918, Page 5
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