| Show t r r ALONG ALONGi RHINE i li A FLANDERS T j r CONTINUES MONT KEMMEL RETAKEN l Mont lont St. St Ca Captured i by hy British sli 1 Who Vho Net l 1500 u OO Prisoners rS s Vit ill h Small II Losses l French Make Ial N New c Gains I Universal ersal Service Ser Amsterdam Aug The Thc 31 The Germans according to advices from the Belgian Belgian Bel Bel- gian frontier arc rc rushing thousands of Belgians to the Rhine bank to dig di trenches all ll the way between Cologne and md Switzerland Universal Service London Aug 31 The Thc The Germans in Flanders are retiring on a mile 20 front from the north of La Bassee canal cal to the south of Ypres according to latest dispatches hes from the Lys front t tg t Universal ersal n Service London Aug 31 We Ve We regained Gemmel hill says Field Marshal Haig Hags Haigs s night report t Associated Pross Press London Aug 31 In In the capture of Mont St. St St Quentin north of Peronne and aud more th than 1500 prisoners were taken by the he British according to Field Marshal Haigs Haig's report tonight The British losses were small Associated Tress Iress 31 Heavy it tin north f Of S Soissons o and along the Cri Canal nal ar- ar du Nord is is' is r report p d by office ht The French have succeeded ti in in f overcoming powerful resistance at v various rious points points' and md havi having gt taken k tl O Campagne ou tho cast 1st bank of the canal now hold the village of Chevilly and have advanced their l line line line-as nc as far as Leery Leury northeast of Soissons Universal Service Ser T vi r DON 0 Aug 31 Along u It front of twenty miles mites from the south of 1 Ypres to the north of La Bassee canal the German Flanders Plunders is retreating ng toni tonight ht through shell scarred carted fields dotted with poppies scarlet poppies army scarlet y poppies of which nn an ancient mci nt lo legend end tells that they derive their deep red hue huc front from the blood that has hns drenched the soil oil of Flanders through centuries of battle height IlCi-ht is once more in British hands himself announced it tOlli tonight ht anti and his words sent a n thrill through the British s empire For it wa ai 5 when that mountain bastion was grasped in the German clutch that the British commander er issued his immortal hack back bark to the wall order to his troops Out of the whole Lys wedge the are withdrawing with feverish fe hn haste te while whilo the with withdrawing is good For in it the they are arc ns as n if all dressed up and no place pace to go With th the tIC threatened collapse of their whole center center center- between Arras Ams and Soissons ons which was again agnin punctured puncture at JUan many places by the l French and lal today today the the latter almost closed dosed their ring around Peronne all all chance of last Jast n a gamble for the thu channel coast vanished Hot r rent at 1 Shorten your yonI our line whatever the c cost t or nt consequence confluence That i a the order of gf the day tiny of er e every cry dR day now note from German headquarters in the field And to so o the last laurels of the b great Friedens 4 campaign are offered by Von Yon Arnim upon the altar of wifely safety Kemmel heights was abandoned L by him without even the pretense pretence of u 11 fi fight bt Tho The Krupps anti and which since their bloody spring days davs ays have bave been thundering their chant of ha hate cute o toward the not far distant channel channel were stealthily wit withdrawn in in the darkness of night and hordes of field field- gray rn sol soldiers sneaked down clown the slopes every even inch of which was bo Boint 1 bt by b- y them and their dead comra comrades es at a n price of blood scarcely c five months a ago o. o Back Buek to the the whito range sheet ride rid e and back back to t the cast bank of the Lys between Warneton and Von Arnim Arnini is retreating r Peronne Ripe for Allied Capture Associated Press Mont font St. St Quentin lint has been tu taken en by br the Australians together with In this surprise attack more than 1300 1500 prisoners were taken Th The ilia way y is now no prepared for the occupation of P Peronne and a a further further important advance uIl to the thc east Simultaneously the French have broken down the resistance of heavy jj German fortes forces es al along ng the canal Du Nord Norel and anel north of Soissons In the Soissons area they are ill iii in complete possession sion of and und Crony Croup and have hac reached the western outskirts outskirt of 01 Leury l Notwithstanding o the fact that the allied n t s has slowed down dowel somewhat owing o to tt the reinforcements rushed in ill an m cn endeavor to hold bold the vital points on their their line linc there has been no cessation of the allied thrusts thrust along the entire ei mile eight miJe ht-miJe front and with minor rumor exceptions these thrusts hn have C been successful A A. gain tin ill of great importance ce in the Lys se sector lor has been Leen mn made mado e by br th the British who arc now in in possession of that much fought over o ground J. J I emm 1 Hill rill S In the south near Soissons Fren French h and Americans arc keeping up their pressure n against the German lines which threatens to outflank tho the enemy positions along the J Aisne Ai ne and Vesle Further north the French have c made mada only local gains ains in their effort to reach leach Couch Chateau anti and capture the heights which dominate the old German positions along the Chemin d de Dames Yc Westward t from the along the Oise and northward to tho the river west of oC Ham the French are arc fi fighting hard but their advance is is slows slow North of the Somme battlefield proper tuie G Germans seeing the dan danger er erto to 0 their entire army in in further inroads of tho the British ac across oss tho the Hin enL line ine southeast and cast of Arras Arms have hn massed men and runs guns to hold that position British fon forces es have nearly broken through and the danger ilot i i- i is not lot over O In Flanders ers the Germans are arc rapidly retiring to their lines lines running near which t they hey stormed late into in in April Mont hemmel southwest southwest south- south west vest of Ypres lutes has been taken while Bailleul where there thero was terrific fi lighting when the Germans were Germans were striving to reach the channel ports is again in u British hands hand Further south the Germans Germon are aie east cast of the Lawe and the British h havo have taken more ground round to the northeast of Bethune J As nearly as os it is po possible to measure th the extent of the tho German retirement retire retire- mont tient it il scorns scorns the enemy had abandoned a strip from one to two miles deep over ocr what would be bc equal oqual to tu a front of or about twelve miles mites rom From Bapaume to tho the O Oise s the British arc are now within twelve mU miles s of the he line r n |
