The Archive · 1940

Marne Fighting

"On the Marne, in the neighbourhood" of Chateau-Thierry, enemy masses coming from the north have succeded in taking certain elements te, the south bank.

"tu. the region' of Rheims, the enemy has thrown into battle mew tank and motorized units. "An entire mechanized corps, comprising three or four armoured divisions and two for three motorized divisions, has entered into the struggle. After bite ter fighting, our troops "have withdrawn step by step and in order to Montague de Rheims.

"To the north-east of Rheims, information gathered from prisoners shows that the enemy has sustained very heavy losses from counter attacks of our mechanized units and continued bombardments of our air force. Some of our squadrons went five times into battle during the day. Between the Aisne and Meuse, the enemy did not renew his attacks."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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