THE FIGHTING ON THE MEUSE
AMERICAN LINE ADVANCED AFTER A BITTER STRUGGLE. FRESH GUARDS DIVISIONS THROWN IN TO STEM THE ADVANCE. WOODS AND RAVINES FLOODED WITH MUSTARD AND LETHAL GASES. SUMMIT OF HILL CAPTURED AFTER BEING REPEATEDLY THROWN BACK (Reutcr's Telegrams.) y Received October 16, 11.25 p.m. LONDON, October 15. Reuter's correspondent at American headquarters says that the Americans vesterdav move'd their line to St. Georges and Landres et St. Georges. After a bitter struggle eastward of the Meuse we reached Sivry and Magnenta Farm. At Romagne the Germans fought gallantly to hold back the' Americans, bringing up new Guards divisions. The Germans flooded the woods and ravines with mustard and lethal gases. Chatilon Wood, covering a high hill south of Romagnes, was stubbornly defended, the Americans gaining the summit in the evening after being repeatedly thrown back. A thousand prisoners have been sent to the rear.
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13891, 17 October 1918, Page 5
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