Crucial Day of Battle of France Dawns as Armies Fight Fie reely Over 90-Mile Front Germans have launched one hundred Paris, June 9. visions in the battle! which is raging at present from the Channel to Argonne, according to military circles here that today is the crucial day of the battle, The battle is being continued with the same violence on positions which were attacked by the enemy during the past few days and spreading eastwards to ti the Argonne, this morning's official General Staff communique said.
"At dawn today," the communique added, "the enemy launched a new powerful attack extending from the region of Chateau-Poreien to Lo Chesne."
Forty of the German ions are said to be fighting between the Channel and the Oise, ten along the Aisne in the region of Soissons, forty along the upper Aisne and in Champagne, and ten are scattered along other sections of the front, Considering the number of effec~ tives engaged, the German gains yesterday were relatively small.
Tt 13 understood that after only three days of fighting in the Somme region the Germans were com~ pelled to throw their second line of Feserves into the battle.
The most violent of the German attacks was launched in the area south of Amiens in a southerly: Girection, Towards the end of the day, fighting progressed in the Tardenois region, the enemy infantry penetrating no deeper than seven to eleven tiles.
"Along the upper Aisne, the Germans launched an attack ona thirty mile front between Chateau-Por-tien, situated on the Aisne at a point seven miles west of Rethel, and Lo Chesne Populeux, Military circles here declare that the armoured column which reached the Forges-les-Eaux area two days fage sustained considerable losses following a violent counter-attack. Only a few units succeeded in. effect ing a small advance towards the
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