French local operations were pur= sued successfully along the Somme yesterday, the" war correspondent and French forees re~ occupied some positions which had fallen to the enemy. The front alo the eastern part of the Somme and along the Rhine to the Swiss frontier was quiet with the German High Command apparently concentrating all its resources in Flanders, where they are continually sending rein= forcements regardless of the destruction wreaked among the advancing units by Allied bombers, the Havas war correspondent concluded.
Contrary to German that the "Allied armies of the are encircled and face annihilation, French military experts pointed out that they have unhampered lines communication with the sea over which they are receiving a steady stream of supplies.
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