ON THE WESTERN FRONT,

Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1918, Page 3

ON THE WESTERN FRONT,

[rEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COFTRIaHT.]

HEAVIEST OF FIGHTING.

GERMANS STRIKE BACK.

(Onited Service Telegrams)

(Recoived This Dav at 10. In. u.m.j LONDON, July 80.

The French are advancing in spite of powerfully. increasing resistance. The heaviest fighting is between the Ourcq and Ville-en-Tardenois, where the French are nearing the crest of the plateau between the Vesle and the Ourcq. The Germans violently attacked Cierges, and drove out the Americans and also ousted the French from Bcngcux.

Seventy-one enemy divisions have been identified, including ten of Prince Rupprecht’s. The pinching off of the salient is no longer regarded as a possibility. The driving back of a numerically superior force und the capture of mapy prisoners is sufficient cause for (congratulation. It is unnecessary to lament the non-fulfilment of the illfounded extravagant hopes based on the cutting off of the enemy.

A YANKEE STAB

DRIVES TERROR INTO GERMANS

This Dav at 10. To. h.-'i . > LONDON, July 30.

Reuter’s corespondent at American (Headquarters writing on the 29th., deals with the hard fighting leading to tho final capturo of Sergy by the who also captured Seignes, and Rouohere. The fight for Sergy -resolved itself into a fierce struggle, with the 4tli Guards Division and one crack division from the Gorman Army. The Guards swept down the hill when the Americans were reorganising their lines. “They were all picked fresh men determined to strikj terror into the hearts of the Yankees, with whom this was their first engagement. The Americans were overborne by the vast weight- of numbers and gave ground, foot by foot to the brink of the Ourcq, but fiercely recoiled and drove the Germans belter skelter at point of the bayonet from the ruins of the village. The Germans suffered fearfully, their dead lying in heaps on all parts of the field. ‘ -