Progress of the War.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16252, 1 July 1918, Page 6

Progress of the War.

The reports to-day from tho West front record two highly successful local attacks, one carried out by the British, in Flanders and tho other by the French south of the Aisne. In each case all the objectives were gained and considerable losses, for local fighting, inflicted on the enemy. On tho British front tho attack was made on a front of some three miles on the sector south of Bailleui, with tho object of eliminating the German threat against the British positions in the northern portion of the Forest of Nieppo. The attack came as a complete surprise to the enemy, and tho attacking troops were able to secure their objective, the line of the Plate, a little stream some 1500 yards east of Xieppe Forest, without difficulty, at the same time capturing some 300 prisoners , and 22 machine-guns. The French attack was made 'with a somewhat similar object, and was equally successful. The 'French line "on this sector, when the German drive on the Aisne was finally checked, had been bent back to the north of the Forest of Vniers-Cottorets until it decidodly weakened the French positions at this point and in the Forest of Compiegnc. With the object of rectifying the line and lessening the danger of a German enveloping movement, the French attacked, and in a little over an hour had) securod their objectives, taking over a. thousand prisoners and many machineguns. No operations are reported from tlie Italian front to-day, where tho battle appears to have died down on all sectors, 'Sensational reports announce the overthrow of the Bolshevik regime in Russia, but the messages are "unofficial, and coming from German sources, cannot be accepted at their face value.