GENERAL GOURAND'S ADVANCE.

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

GENERAL GOURAND'S ADVANCE.

ENEMY IN PERIL IN LAON

SALIENT.

(Reuters Telegrams.)

(Received' Oct. 13, 5.5 p.m.) London, Oct. 12

Reuters correspondent at French Headquarters, writing at midnight on Friday, says -.—General - Gourand's army, which has been checked for days

CABLE NEWS.

[Press Association'.—Copyhisht.]

by the enemy's desperate resistance, made the most of this, important advance across the Suippe. Almost everywhere on the whole twenty mile front the Gentians are making unmistakable preparations for a further retreat. The advance m eastern Champagne is even more rapid. Between the Aisne and the Oise the enemy's retirement has been unexpectedly slow. The Germans' position in the Laon sc-lient is most precarious, the British and French having cut their main lines. General Mangin's army, nevertheless,, is meeting with considerable resistance, and the rate of advance has been prudent. General Debeney's army has taken 4000 prisoners in the last ten days, all small bodies comprising the garrisons of concreted centres of resistance in the Hindenburg Line.