10 AUGUST 1918, Page 1
The Allies sent patrols across the Vesle last Sunday at
various points, but met with increasingly stubborn resistance during the next two days, especially to the west of Reims. The narrow triangle between the Vesle and the Aisne east of Soissons is, however, an impossible position for an army on the defensive, and the enemy will doubtless recross the Aisne as soon as he can. His rearguards are delaying our advance so that the heavy guns and stores may be removed beyond our reach. On Wednesday French and American forces estoblished themselves north of the Vesle, west of Flames.
