FRENCH STILL ADVANCING
(United Service.) (Received Wednesday, at 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, Tuesday. The French are advancing in spite of powerfully increasing resistance. The heaviest fighting is between the Ourcq and ViUewen-jTardenois, where the French are nearrng the crest of tho plateau between the Vesle and the Ourcq.. Tfca Germans violently attacked Cierges and drove out the Americans. They also ousted the French from Beugneux. Seventy-two enemy divisions have been identified, including ten of Prince Rupprecht's. The pinching off of the salient is no longer regarded as a possibility. The driving back of numerically superior forces, and the capture of many prisoners, are sufficient cause for congratulation. It is unnecessary to lament the non-fulfilment of ill-founded and extravagant hopes based on the cutting off of the enemy.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 44, Issue 13604, 31 July 1918, Page 5
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