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Meanwhile on last Saturday the French armies on our right

were engaged in a violent battle on the front of thirty-seven miles between Moreuil, north of Montdidier, and Lassigny. At the northern end of this great are, Aforeuil changed hands four times, but finally remained in the possession of our Allies after a bayonet charge in which British troops took part. At the southern end, round Lassigny, the fighting was equally desperate. Two German divisions penetrated into Le Plemont and the park of Plessis do Hoye, but were flung out again by an irresistible French counter- attack, leaving seven hundred prisoners at Le Plemont alone. The road down the Oise Valley to Paris was barred.

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