MONDAY'S BATTLE ROUND SOISSONS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14859, 5 September 1918, Page 5

MONDAY'S BATTLE ROUND SOISSONS.

ENEMY BURNING VILLAGES

CReuter's Telegrams.) (Received Sept; 4, 7.20 p.m.)

London, Sept. 3

Iteuter's correspondent at American Headquarters, writing Monday niojit, says: A great fight progressed all^day long north, and north-east of Soissons. The enemy are vigorously defending the, Pont Roug& plateau, east of the Soissons railway, and also » line right along, the north bank of cb<» Aisn*»

We* /are bombarding their positions from the south and west. The villages which the enemy hold are burning like vast torches, and the fires are spreading through the neighbouring woods. The enemy drenched our positions at midday gas. but our retaliation barrage silenced their guns.