DEFENCE OF GOBAIN FOREST.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14864, 11 September 1918, Page 5

DEFENCE OF GOBAIN FOREST.

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(Reuters Telegrams.)

(Received Sept. 10, 7.55 p.m.)

London, Sept. 9,

Reuters correspondent at American Headquarters, writing on. Monday morning, states:—Between the Ailette and the Aisne the enemy resistance is stronger, indicating the arrival of fresh troops. . . "

The Laffaux ravines yesterday were the scene of sanguinary fighting. These give access along the ridge to the Chemin-des-Dames.

At Celles, on the Aisne at the southeastern angle of the same group of hills, the Germans attacked furiously, revealing the fact that an abundance of artillery of all calibres is now concentrated at this danger spot in the defences of St. Gobain massif.

In view of the difficulty of progress in this region more success is likely to attend our outflanking movement towards La Fere, but in any ease this counter-attacking is all to our advantage.