THE RETREAT FROM THE MARNE
ALLIES . ENCOUNTER GREATER RESISTANCE
DESPERATE BATTLES & FRESH GAINS
XUKIEf BREAKS WITH GERMANY '
SENSATIONAL REPORT FROM CONSTANTINOPLE
The neira from the Marno to-day 'ops not indicate any material development apart from the 6teady pressure and dogged advance of tho Allies on the retreating Germans. Tho enemy's resistance has stiffened considerably and fiorce battles are being fought along tho entire front. One village changed hands foiir N times. On the British front tho Australians by a clever coup captured two lines of trenches on two miles of front on tho Bray-Corbie Road, talcing one hundred prisoners and a number of,machino-guns. Tho enemy's difficulties liavo been immensely in-creasod-if reports be true—by a breach with Turkey over a dispute about tho soizuro of a Turkish oruiscr by the Germans as compensation for tho loss of the Brcslau. The Hamedieh, under the German flag, is reported to have been taken to Sebastopol, and the GoAcn has left Turkish waters. Fresh pressure is being exerted by tho Allies in Albania, and on the Palostino front there have been a series of successful raids.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 267, 31 July 1918, Page 5
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182THE RETREAT FROM THE MARNE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 267, 31 July 1918, Page 5
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