Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-05-31 | Page 10 | French Reserves are Arriving at the Battle Front

FRENCH RESERVES ARE ARRIVING AT THE BATTLE FRONT PARIS, May 30. The battle aIon the fighting front continued all night, "with the French maintaining the western outlets out-lets of Soissons, the war office announced an-nounced today. French reserves are continuing to arrive ar-rive on the front and the German ad-Vance ad-Vance is being resisted with great tenacity. In the center of the German advance fighting is taking place in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of Vezilly (approximately eighteen miles south of the Chemin-des-Dames, where the German attack was launched on Monday). The statement follows: The battle continued with undiminished un-diminished violence during the night. French troops energetically maintained main-tained western outlets of Soissons, and the enemy, notwithstanding repeated re-peated efforts, was not able to debouch de-bouch from the town. Farther south engagements of ax-' treme violence developed in the region re-gion of the road between Soissons and Partennes and on the front between be-tween Fere-cn-Tardenois and Vezilly, where French troops, supported by reserves, re-serves, are opposing the Germans' advance with indomitable tenacity. On the right, Franco-British troops along the front between Brouillet and Thillois, and also northwest of Rheims, broke all assaults and maintained main-tained their positions.