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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1918, Page 2

FROM OTHER SOURCES.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT. 1 DISAPPOINTING RESULTS. (Received This Day, at 12.55, a.m.) LONDON June 17. Educated prisoners admit the gains from the offensive are much less than was expedited. They arc very nervous about tin? Americans and believed only 75,000 had reached France. They now realise that the submarine campaign lias failed.

ENORMOUS ARRIVALS. OF AMERICANS IN FRANCE, (Received This Day, at 12.10. a.m.) LONDON, June 17. The ‘‘Morning Post” states the arrival of the American troops in the past, few days has eclipsed all records 'As a feat,' the shipping movement across the Atlantic exceeds anything in merchantile annals. Week end scenes at one port were amazing. Ship after ship discharged a khaki-clad cargo, who were whirled off by special trains to France.

ATTACK AT TOUL. (Received This Dav at 9.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, June 17. Despatches from Americans on the Toni front, state German shock troops attacked the village of Xivray following it heavy bombardment, and penetrated Xivray, but the Americans countered • and threw out the Germans. A few . Germans were pfiso’nered. i | GREAT GAS ATTACK. j (Received this day at 12.30 a.m.) I NEW YORK, June 16. | The “New York Times” Correspondj ent with the American army, states j the Germans fired more than 1,500 gasshells on American positions north-west ! of Chateau Thierry in two hours and I a half. This was the heaviest gas attack | yet withstood by the Americans.

AMERICAN OPERATIONS. (Received This Dav at 10.15. a.m > LONDON, June 17th. An American report states we repulsed with severe enemy losses, an attack in Woevre. We broke up two - attacks in the region of Chateau Thierry. There was active reciprocal artillorying in the region of Chateau Thierry and Picardy.