BATTLE FOB THE PLATEAUX.

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

BATTLE FOB THE PLATEAUX.

IMPORTANT- GROUND GAINED.

(Renter's Telegrams.) (Received Sept. 4, 10.20 p.m.)

London, Sept. 3

Heritor's correspondent at French Headquarters writes:—General Mangin's attack on the plateau between th« Ailette and the Aisne yesterday afternoon resulted in another important advance. On the left, opposite Grun3 T r we have a bridgehead across tho Ailette, and French troops occupied woods westward of Coucy-le-Cha-teau, and also established a footing in a little wood south-east. of Moulin-de-Nogcnt, so ws are now barely a mile from Coucy. Terny Sorny, which resisted several I attacks, was captured, and a footing! was obtained 6ii the plateaux north-! east of Crouy. We are on the edge of a second plateau across Margival Valley, through which the Soissons-Laon railway runs. Over 1200 prisoners were taken during the day. The tanks played an important part in yesterday's French attack, as also did the airmen.

Tho enemy are naturally defending the plateaux tooth and nail. The Prussian Guards delivered five futile counter-attacks, leaving- the ground littered with their dead.

The five days' hard fighting between ,the Ailcttc and the Aisne has givengood results. The first powerfully organised line across the Terny Sorny plateau has been taken, and the second line has already been attacked. The French are across the Ailette at several

points

The battle has u,sed up several of the enemy's divisions, who are no match for General Mangin's' colonials.

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