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GENERAL MARCH'S COMMENTS.
NEW YORK. 4th October.
General March, United States ChU-.i of Staff, in an -interview, says thai the. news from the front is excellent. Tlie offensives conducted in tbu three majoi sectors had resulted practically in uninterrupted gains. The British at St. Queritin had entirely broken the Hiittlenburg defences. The Germans are finding the greatest difficulty in closing (lie bi'caches the British are malting. A few American regiments ni'e assisting the British in the St. Quentin operations. The American advance north-tfest of Verdun threatens the leading Gorman line of cornnntnication with the southern portion of the front. In spite of additional German reserves, the American* continue tbeir forward movement. In the Flanders salient the British have recovered 75 square miles of Belgium and formed a semi-circular salient ten miles deep. The British aro within five miles of Lille.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1918, Page 7
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144BREACHES DIFFICULT TO CLOSE Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1918, Page 7
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