AMERICA’S PART:

Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1918, Page 3

AMERICA’S PART:

f AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] AMERICAN REPORT. ADVANCE MAINTAINED. LONDON November 7. An American official report states: We continued our advance between the • •Barr and Meuse our line now extending from Duford do Limon Wood 1 through Flabas, Maisoncclle and Chemory along the line of the Mouse, which •we hold from Hospice V'ood inclusive to Caily, on the heights eastward of Luilly; thence to Dun-sur-Meuse. ENEMY MAIN LINE BROKEN. LONDON November 8. An American official report states.: The First American Army have captured the portion of Sedan, on the west bank of the Meuse. The bridge across the Meuse into the remainder of of Sedan which was filled with the retreating enemy lias been destroyed and the valley beneath flooded. The Meuse railroad bridges have also been destroyed. ' The enemy’s principal lateral line of communication between Metz and Northern France and Belgium thus remains no longer open to him. PART OF SEDAN TAKEN. LONDON November 7. The Americans have occupied the part of the city of Sedan on the east bank of the Meuse river. The Americans altogether have advanced 40 kilometres since Friday last. AMERICAN OPERATIONS. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON ,Nov. 7. An American official message says all French territory westward of the Meuse within the American zone, has been cleared by our gallant, dashing advance. , , Since Ist Nov. we have advanced fotrv kilometres and broken down all resistance, freed seven hundred kilometres of soil and liberated two thousand civilians who are joyfully hailing us as deliverers. . . We prisonered nearly six thousand, including an unusually large proportion of officers, and great booty.