German Tanks Break Through Lines But Are Unsupported by Infantry; Allies Harass Units Paris, June 8.
\NEMY armoured units reported last night in the upper Bresle valley progressed further during the night, this morning's official French General Staff communique announced. detachments of these units have reached the neighbourhood of Forges-les-Eaux.
The situation was unchanged on the remainder of the front, the communique concluded.
Military circles in Paris are fully confident of the outcome of the battle at present raging between the Channel and the Chemin des Dames region.
'A withdrawal was ordered in the centre part of the front, viz, the Amiens, Peronne and Ham districts, in order to straighten the French line following the German advance on both wings: in the Bresle region West of the Somme and the Ailette area East of the Aisne.
These circles point out that the infiltration of a" German armoured unit through the French lines yesterday does not constitute a break through these lines as the unit in question reinaing isolated and 1s being hard-pressed by the French. The supporting points of the French defence remain intact everywhere. and infantry units were prevented from following up the advance of the tanks.
Therefore, they stressed, the incid. ent must Rot be described as the break through of an armoured division. Every step is being taken by the French High Command to des~ roy the armoured unit now cut off from its base,
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