GERMAN ADVANCE AT HEAVY COST

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 217, 1 June 1918, Page 7

GERMAN ADVANCE AT HEAVY COST

RESISTANCE STEADILY HARDENING THRILLING STAND BY BRITISH DIVISIONS

The news from.the great battlefront in Champagne to-day gives bo sign of diminishing pressure by the enemy, although his rate of progress has appreciably slackened owing to the hardening of the defence by the constant and increasing flow of-reserves. The Germans are said to be making a powerful bid to reach the line of the Marne, from which they were incontinently driven in the early days of .the war. The pressure of the advance <has created a threatening salient which the enemy is striving desperately to widen in the hope of effecting a break-through to Paris. The Gernians at their nearest point are 45 miles from the French capital, but-it is pointed out they were only 15 miles from Paris in their farthest advance in 1914-and then they were defeated. Thrilling stories are told of the heroic valour and self-sacrifice .of the four British divisions which had been sent down to the Aisne front to recuperate after an-equally trying time in the Flanders battles. It is these tired hoops who have' nobly held the- danger points, and delayed the enemy's advance by their splendid resistance. ;