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Show FRENCH REPORT ADVANCES MADE DURING THE DAY PARIS, July 2S. French advanced guards have reached the north bank of the Ourcq river, and allied troops have entered Fere-en-Tardenois, the great German Ger-man supply base, which lies in the middle line of the Aisne-Marne sector. The announcement of the war office tonight adds that the villages of An-thenay An-thenay and Olizy-et-Violaine, on the east flank, lying to the southwest of Kheims, have been occupied. The text of the statement reads: North of the Marne we have continued con-tinued our onward march in the region re-gion of tile Ourcq. Notwithstanding the resistance of the enemy, who employed em-ployed every effort to check our passage pas-sage of the river, we succeeded in throwing advanced elements on the north bank. We have penetrated into Fere-en -Tardenois. Northeast of the forest of Rls we recaptured Champvoisy. On the right our troops have occupied occu-pied Anthenay and Olizy-et-Violaine, and have approached appreciably the line of the road from Rheims to Dor-mans. Dor-mans. In Champagne two enemy attempts in the region south of the Mont Sans Norn were repulsed. |