BITTER BATTLES ON FIFTY MILES OF FRONT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 256, 17 July 1918, Page 5

BITTER BATTLES ON FIFTY MILES OF FRONT

AMERICANS HEAVILY ATTACKED ENEMY BOILED BACK BY SPLENDID COUNTER-ATTACK SITUATION WELL IN HAND After weeks of comparative inaction, variously speculated upon by the war critics, tho Germans have launched a furious offensive on fifty miles of front, extending from Chateau Thierry to the neighbourhood of the Forest of Argonne. The American sectors at Chateau Thierry and at Vaux wero heavily attacked, hut our new Allies, with a splendid rally, hurled the enemy back beyond his original line, taking a thousand prisoners. So far as tho reports go-at the time of writing tho dispatches were scrappy—the situation appeared to bo well in hand. Mr. Bonar Law, in tho House of Commons, intimated that General Foch was satisfied with the progress of ovents. At certain points, notably east of Reims, tho enemy's advance has b'een checked. Thero is no hint as yet of tho enemy's objective. .In Russia tho general situation continues to develop to the advantage of the Czechoslovaks. Kazan, an important railway and river centro due east of Moscow, has ken captured, and the Czechoslovaks are masters of tho lower Volga. The British and American forces have now occupied tho wholo of tho Murman coast. Asiatic cholera has made its appearance in Russia, and there are alarming reports of tho ravages of the disease. A. late cablegram from Sydney this morning states: "The war news is delayed; nothing available." ,