27 JULY 1918, Page 1
The advance was continued with great vigour on Friday week.
While the left flank held firm outside Soissons, the centre and right flank were pushed forward for several miles. The enemy counter- attacked with desperate energy- in the valley of the Ourcq, which bisects the new battle-front, but he failed to hold the Allies. That night General Foch was able to announce the capture of seventeen thousand prisoners and no fewer than three hundred and sixty guns —a very definite proof of the swiftness with which the attackers had overrun the enemy's battery positions. More captures last Saturday, in a further advance, raised the total to over twenty thousand prisoners and over four hundred guns.
