A DECISIVE VICTORY FOR THE FRENCH

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 30, 30 October 1918, Page 5

A DECISIVE VICTORY FOR THE FRENCH

GERMANS FORCED TO ABANDON THE OISE-AISNE FRONT HUNDING LINE SMASHED TO A DEPTH OF THREE MILES r By Telegraph-Press i63ooiatioii--Copyrieht London, October 28. . Serre General Mangin lias broken across the northern end of the» marshes, capturine Vesles-Caumont and Tierremont, trliilo the Fifth Amy attacked twelve miles of the Hundirigline and has broken it to a depth of %ee miles, c^Fturinff St. Quentin-le-Petit in spite of five successive fields of wire and five ranges of trenches with machine-gun posts and anti-tank minefields. The whole of the flprmnn defences in the Northern Champagne area are endangered. Over five ttousand prSra have been taken, though this is but the beginning of a great victory.•—Aus.-N.Z. -Cable Assn.THE AMERICAN ADVANCE NORTH OP VERDUN • ' • \ , - Washington, October 28. ■The Americans have finally captured the Bellu Wood, 011 the Verdun front. GeneiTSing reports that in the first month of the 'Americans captured 20,000 prisoners and 150 gnne.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. New York, October 28. American guns are firing on longuyon, 22 miles north-north-east from Ver-lun.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. _ , ; REPORTED EVACUATION OF GHENT. Amsterdam, October 28. TJnconßvmed, reports from the. frontier state that the Germans have evacuated Ghent.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . THE ENEMY'S LOSSES SINCE MARCH ' 1,200,000 IN CAPTURED, KILLED, AND WOUNDED. London, October 28. The "Morning Post's" correspondent on the French front writes"The ] enemy on March 21 had 2,800,000' bayonets. We have captured or seribusly wounded 800,000. The Germans therefore have non only 1,C00,000, compared with 2,000,000 Allied bayonets on the Western front, to which America is adding ft quarter of a million a month."—Aus.-ls./. Cable Assn. (Bee. October 29, 7.30 p.m.) London, October 28. In the House of Commons Mr. Hope (for the Prisoners of War Department! stated that since the war began Britain had taken 327,116 enemy combatant prisoners, including 264,242 Germans. There were 97,000 German combatant prisoners in the United Kingdom.—Eeuter.