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THE FRENCH-AMERICAN ATTACK

A TWENTY-MILE FRONT..

ENEMY LINES PENETRATED A DEPTH OF SEVEN MILES.

Lagoon, Sept. 27,

1.45 and.

One night canrense, Bowever, de very like arother We sta [tresting feature 6. 1. me was thigh

expected feebler the enemy's the troops moving up q the attack, rection, which caus. Ettle ksa, ta

Shetly before dawn the ear of the Frans rose taga

prépara tion for the assault,

which w

An American communique states at daylight in the ad The First Anny attacked this vanced Zone when the enelny werning north-west of Verdim pé b 18:1 not resisting trongly twenty-mile front and penetrated heicklystrated about the ettemy lines to am average deptlet whole from In the finit bout of time battle some very importdul

seven miks

The Penifylvania, Kansas, and buttresses of a to tea which has Missouri trope, šinder Major-dienert Gormarts "dig bad talon.

By Liggot. stommel Vereines. Montfo'clock Servon, on the edge Brainville, Vanquors and CheppyArgonne which the the nuns had Jufter stubben vesistance.

bell for four years, het heen takia,

Other troops crowed Forges Break 120 nur troops pushed out fiery and vaptured Bois-de-Forges and the Maine and Mass eaptur ng towns Malancourt, Bethleourtseveral points of importines. Montlauson, Cüisy, Mantilos, Sept. They occupied the cable s surges, Datnevoux, Gercours and of Butte-du-Mesnil, 659 feet "high, Drillancourt.

forming the south-westen pillar

The prisoners thus far reported the Tahure position and wh amber over 5.000..

waves of French intervaly washed in Septemba 1915 and which until tha moime projectet into our front like a

to the

¡A FRENCH COMMUNIQUE,

OPERATIONS DEVELOPING

SATISFACTORILY

Losnoy, Sept. 27,

12,40 a.m.wi

On the left the Fruch safting an immenselydne styles the Ligue-des-Mute Butte-de-Sougin. to But Th

French communiqué states-The fighting here any vers This morning" the French "und heavy but us I was letting Head- closely co-operat quarters news arrived of the cond eftbacked „spir, both sides qui ahl Navilnių Farmy, on the vary flank if

Pe Brittele Sougin Hill, which,

Argonne

The operations are developing for, is in danger of beʼng under satisfactory conditions. The With it the Ligne-les-Butt adyance of the French troops west fail.

fot Argonne attained a maximum

depth of six kilometres.

The Lattle continues.

I

On the extreme right in Argon American Divisions tuckung

liaison with General Courau Army,

During the 25th inst. five enemy udvinced a mile beyond Vauquoa aeroplanes were brought down. Our which resisted to many attache, nud night bombers dropped over 21 tous into Malaneant wood on the

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Numerous fires explosions upon targets were, observed.

PRESS CORRESPONDENT'S STORY OF THE BATTLE.

LONDON, Sept. 27. Heute Correspondunt ut French

whole battle-front of forty miler the enemy is already dislodge 1 from is advanced strongholds, many of thera place in which he has lei in no parently untreatened secto y hor year

The enemy seeros to have been. misled regarding the point where tire- weight of the attack would fall. H furtillery resistance was strongest of the extreme left in the region of she Headquarters, telegraphing on the Mortonvilliers mountains West Un

rioring of the 26th, says

the Suippe volley on the Innit ohy

Three yere od a day after lunch. the buttle-field.

ing the memorable Champagne SUCCESSFUL BRITISH OPERATIONS

offensive of 1915, the French again

attacked the German front along the

line of the old battle-field, from and

on both sides of it from Sulppe so

NEAR ST. QUENTIN.

Sept 20.

Field-Marshat Sir Douglas the Verdun battle-field. The attack | reports ===

ing French Anny is under the orderi We captured a few prisoners in

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In the past few days, the First

is in supreme command.

The brief reports so far received and Sixth Divisions of the Ninth warrant full confidence in the result. Corps, under Lieut-Genem Brith- The German High Command: copied waite, bave captured in hard fight Generul Gouraud's tactics of the 15thing at small cost an ic

tem of treaches and stony rocinia July and quietly withdrew troops woods und villages, to the from the advanced me when it was north-west of St. Quentin, and kok realized that en attack was izninin 1,500 prisoners. Many strong ent, leaving only a few posts under counter-attacks were repulsed wit non-commissioned officers to keep up great gallantry and determination, a semblance of resistance.. General Gouraud, however, is not

itoral into his own He learned from prisoners and other sources that the enemy was falling Buck on this

priperpal lines of resist

end he sued changed orders

NEW BRITISH OFFENSIVE

ATTACK ON WIDE FRONT SOUTH or SENSEE RIVER.

Field Marshal'

Wei

to the artillery: Our arúllery pre reports paration began at eleven o'clock last night and instead of betering empty trenches till daylight, like the Ger

"morning, onˆsi”

nase River

mans did on July fit the French of the batteries rained an appalling fire ou First reports indicat the German main defences and roads, fictory progress is bei by which German reserves were

We carried I watched the bombard-

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