SOISSONS RETAKEN

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 271, 5 August 1918, Page 5

SOISSONS RETAKEN

■■ GENERAL RETREAT OF THE ':'GERMANS OVER 'FIFTY VILLAGES RECAPTURED ALLIES REACH-THE AISNE , ■EVERY PROSPECT GOOD \ , "The Allies have inflicted another damaging defeat 'on tho enemy. south of tho Aisne, and are now making rapid progress into the reduced, but still extensive, 6»lient he was attempting to hold between Soissons and Reims. Soissons has been captured, and in a rapid forward movement along the Aisno and further south the Allies are threatening tho enemy's vital communications. A great deal of ground has been gained on the whole front between Soissons and Reims—it is mentioned in an official report that moro than fifty /villages were Tocovered in ono day- . and the Germans are under an apparent necessity of speedily evacuating all that remains of the saliont which at the height of thoir offensive extended to some miles south of the 'Marne. . Some commentators are of opinion that the enemy will be compelled to retreat to tho. north bank of the Aisne. War anniversary utteranoes are notably' confident in tone. In an. ordor to the British armies, Sir Douglas Haig declares that the great crisis of the war is past.-