27 JULY 1918, Page 1
Not content with his big counterstroke, General Foch on Tuesday
made a local attack north of Montdidier. The French troops, operating on a three-mile front west of the Avre, captured the villages of Mailly-Rainevel, Sauvillers, and Aubvillers with eighteen hundred and fifty prisoners. The object was no doubt to improve the French position on the plateau west of the Avre, and thus to raise a fresh obstacle to a German advance on Amiens through Moreuil, as well as to test the enemy's strength at this critical point in his line where he is nearest to Amiens.
