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Reuter's Service to the Ching Mail)
THE
GREAT BATTLE.
SITUATION REVIEWED.
OFFICIAL SUMMING UP OF FRENCH COMMUNIQUES,
"fix
PEKING, June 7. The following telegrum, sumtning
[Delayed in transmission.]
ENEMY ADVANCE SLOTS DOWN
GERMANS. UNABLE TO DEBOUCH FROM SOISSONS.
LONDON, June 3.
The story of the fighting of the
up the situation on the French Front, Past two days is a story" "of the compiled from the last communiqués heroic and increasing French resist-- of the French Ministry of War, hasance against the desperate. German been handed to Renter's Agency by rush, The enemy has shifted the direction of his attack from the south to the west. Apparently he does not now intend to cross the Marne, and though repeated French counter- attacks come nearer to arresting his
the French Minister ;—
dvance than at any time since the
The great offensive started by the Germans on March 21st was imposed upon them by the etenstance that they must by all meade rouch; u decision before the help trou America, the weight of which had battle began they have not arrested it. The immediate danger point is already made itself seriously felt, gave the Allies, an overwhelming fire, whare very fierce fighting
the Noyon-Moissous-Chutent Thierry
proceeding.
numerical material superiority. The defection of Russia had given Ger
During the week-end the enemy mung the means necessary for this advance has greatly slowed down.” supreme effort.
thanks chiefly to the tenacity with The objective aimed at by the which the defenders clung to the out- Allied Command during the presentskirts of Soissons, which are the Rey enemy offensive is to destroy the to the position. The German forces power of their adversary and wear are closely packed round Soissons hinout, while keeping intact. All and are unable to debouch from that, with the united efforts of the there. sions behind the front of Soissons-
If the French can hold here a morrow certain, rapid and decisive, little longer their reserves, whose In the first phase of the great offen-weight is beginning to be felt, should sive from Murch 1st to May at the turn the scale and bring the enemy Germans realised, some gains of ter to a standstill.
ritory at the cost of losses estimated
Some English experts are of the on May 1st at about 600,000. Be-opinion that the enemy is conduct- tween Ypres ard Lems they reached ing the Mamme offensive on such aline est of Ypres, west of Bail-scale that it is doubtful whether be luft of Merville, and cast ofwill be able to manage another offen-
Bethune. Between Albert and sive simultaneously. Others thinle Noyon they reached the line Albert, that a further German advance is Villers Bretonneux, Moreuil, west of very risky, with powerful French Moutdidier und east of Noyon. Armies in Champague and Argonne
All the epeig's efforts. were on his rear, while others, again com smashed on this line and as early as sider that General von Ludendorff, Muy at the attacking initiative on having secured the flank, may con these fronts had passed to the Allies. time his attempts in the direction
Following this first check, the
of Amiens.. Germans regrouped about 80. Divi-
The view in Paris is one of patience sions behind the front of Scisson and confidence, and it is pointed out Rheims of which only thirty could that the sudden check to the enemy be considered fresh, and launched on advance was most remarkable, coru this front a new offensive on Maying on the fifth day as compared with
The Allied front "bent, but the nintliday of the offensive in- nowhere was it broken. Our losses March, but the opinion ja expressed
21st,
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LD.n men and rusterial have been far that the Crown Prince may be eait- less than the enemy's The greating a halt in onder to await the arrival reserves at the disposal of our of delayed
reserves and, with 40 Ceneralissimo are still intact for the Divisions of the enemy reserves stilf advance. It is realised by the Gerunengaged, it behoves Generalissimo uns that this second phase of the Foch to employ his reserves very Contests definitely checked. More cautiouslytherwise while at grips than fifty German Divisions out of with the enemy he may find himself eighty at their disposal have already held up at another been engaged on this front.
The gehend view in Pans is in- Between Noyon and Bheims the clined to be optimistic. - line now runs east of Noyon, west A semi-official, commentator de of 'Soissons,
cast of Villers Cotterets, clures that a complete stabilisation north of Chateau Thierry, north-west has not yet been achieved, at least and north-east of Rheins the strategicul buluncy is turning ie
Allies are expecting shortly. favour of the Allies.
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new enemy attack. between Noyon and Albert.
It is noteworthy that the extent of the Gerrar advance is less that? The high Allied Command view the battle of two years ago, but the capture of guna is only one half this the coming operations with full concaptures of the previous battle, while the total of prisoners claimed by the Germunu is roughly about the some GENERALISSIMO-FOCH'S MEASURE: This, despite the enemy's great ad-
fidence.
OF THE SITUATIONA
The Deputy
suntages in numbes and strategie: position, the surprise is that the PARIS, JUNE 2-Bocond stroke, a much less damaging, Daubigny, Mem to the Allied strength, which is the ber of the Amy Commission, has enemy a chief object to break. returned from the Front and has Hence, the warning new boing giver
to the German public that victory: informed his colleagues that Gerak only attainable by slow stages.
Tassimo Foch bis toid fun that the offermise of May 21st required 8 to 10 days to restablish the tuation. The present offensive began on Mont We are therefore, at the You can draw your own
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