Rheims Delivered.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 8 October 1918, Page 3

Rheims Delivered.

FRiENCtH ACROSS THE SUIPPE. DESPERATE ENEaLY RiESTSTANCE FAILS. I Received this day, 11.25 a.m. London, October 7. A French communique reports : North of St. Quentin the battle" continued ail day. We captured llamancourt and Tilloy farm, aliso several for-' tified woods between Mercourt and Sequehart-.' The enemy resisted: furiously but foiled to arrest the advance of our troops who conquered the ground: foot by foot, taking several hundred prisoners. * North of ißJieims we rea plied the Suippe at numerous points. German - rearguards oh the south bank resisted violently, counter- attacking several times. We drove them back, inflicting sanguinary losses. We hold the southern outskirts of Aquilcourt village and Bertricourt. ' North of the Smppe 'we forcedi a passage east of Orainville and captured Pontavert cemetery. There was equally severe fighting in the region of Bazancout and Boult-fiur-Suippe which re. suited in our reaching the outskirts of these localities.

We debouched from BethaneviMe in the face of violent artiljerying and machine gunning and gained ground, also north of St. Clement—Ames.

Our' troops in this region endured ■unflinchingly the severest counterattacks.' Our artillery, .firing ■ with open sights, mowed/ down enemy battalions and the enemy was compelled to «retreat in disorder.

Plighting to-day completed the deliverance of Rheinis..

Despite the unfavourable! weather a via tors dropped 134 tons of bombs on concentrations of troops, convoys and batteries, silencing the latter. Twenty, one enemy machines were felled. Received this day, 9.30 a.m. London, October 7. 1 An American official slates : We slightly advance dbetween the Meuse and Bois de Sogons. There was stubborn infantry fighting further west and 'increasedi reciprocal .artillery activity everywhere.