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Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-08-30 | Page 2 | Allied Offensive Plows Steadily

Type issue
Date 1918-08-30
Paper Salt Lake Herald-Republican
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Allied Offensive Plows Steadily
Type article
Date 1918-08-30
Paper Salt Lake Herald-Republican
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 2
OCR Text ALLIED OFFENSIVE i PLOWS STEADILY I By C Pres Germans continue In retreat TilE I everywhere e between Arras and the Soissons sector under tho the violent attacks s b by the allied allie troops As yet there seems to be bc no slackening In n the tho ho offensive o that Ij 11 steadily reclaiming numerous French towns and lIla villages 3 and territory that long IonS has hns been In the hands of ot the enem enemy Indeed Instead of or halting his men for COr a breathing spell Marshal Foch FochI seems to 0 be pushing them forward with I greater Impetus Already outflanking the old burg bUrS line on the north Iol Field ld Marshal Halg's s forces Corce gradually aro ato cutting their way eastward both north and south of ot the Somme Somme- and putting pUlling down strong counteroffensive cO h actions al- al although on several SC sectors the they have had to cede ground temporarily The British have cl captured the Important Important tant town of or Bapaume whore for Cor days days' there rc had beenk fighting the Germans Car Ger mans exerting their utmost strength to toke ke keep Halg's men from gaining control of r the he railways and tho the high road leading to Ca Cambrai To the To-the the south Routh tho the British also are aro reported to have penetrated penetrated penetrated pene pene- to the thc outskirts I of ot Maurepas another another an nn- other point of or strategic value Along both sides of or the Somme running eastward eastward east east- ward m ground has been gained and south of oC Peronne where the river bends benda sharply so southward the the stream has hns been crossed at several e. C al points and this Important railroad Junction outflanked Since the caving In of oC the thc German line lime b by the Ca fall of ot Chaulnes and Hoe the French literally have ha overrun the southern portion of ot Picard hawing having reached the western bank of or the canal Du Nord along almost Its entire length and acid captured the thc town of oC Noyon which surrounded b by h hills 11 JH has stool stood defiant defiantly nt- nt I ly for days daR under a rain of ot shells shell Last I and southeast of oC Noyon other I ant tant J positions o have been taKen ana and uc- uc tW the Olse and the the- Aisne the ore I French have havi overcome o the heavy heavy re reI resistance re- re I of oC the enem enemy and cro crossed the tho I 1 river Northwest of or Soissons where re the I j Americans are arc rc In the 12 JI line t ement with I t t the of general mo r Kronen rench in the general V clearing Picard of the enemy n m has hair been severe fighting but with the silted allied troop troops having hating t the Ie advantage nd The Thc American sector Is between Clun ChavIgny I and the enemy enem fa Igny IglI and und Juvigny Seventh Se the Prussian Ine Ine- them Included infantry ing the tho Vesle river at lynches och ocher I II nn and tho the situation is 11 I rather I leRR tense than titan it was Tuesday an andI and I I Wednesday n when hea heavy fighting 0 occur oc- oc the th Americans and the cur red between en S Germans Thursday the A ILOt German positions shelled the thc II hta heavily but the Germans failed to pt accept their their I challenge to a duel and replied Ce feebly bl The rhe clam claim of ot the German Geiman war ade 50 30 Americans o were wre m matle S that office Is III prisoner during the thc recent CI b by the lie Americana w who o assert miss that only a aCe fete tew ot of their Then Ip nien n arc In The eastern Seems situation 1 In n clarified tl through W h lime to be somewhat om Sr in all o of or ill H cho disarming b by the lie Czecho Cz Of d dr volunteers who r olt the lun side with wll and took r recently nu anti Bolshevik leader the the all The first b big bg battle In which took Ik fore's fores except Americans n to the lie allied d forces forc except when OC part last Jast Saturday hut but it as attacked enemy the troops beaten hEaten were At steadily last st accounts IJ I aB again slid th the enemy enem
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