AMERICAN VICTORY MOST IMPORTANT.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14891, 14 October 1918, Page 5

AMERICAN VICTORY MOST IMPORTANT.

ENEMY'S MMIIN COMMUNICATIONS IN JEOPARDY.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received Oct. 13, 5.5 p.m.)

Paris, Oct. 12. Experts consider the American victory astride the Meuse of the utmost importance, as it threatens theMezieresMetz railway, which is the only direct communication between the Germans in north-west France and those eastward and south-eastward of Verdun.

The 250 French and American aeroplanes which participated in the battle, besides bombing the enemy v.,nmereifully, co-operated in regulating the gunfire, supplying ammunition to advanced, posts, dropping 6moke screens to conceal the movements of the infantry, and attacking observation balloons far behind the lines.