Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-22 | Page 3 | French Capture Town of Benay, Statement Says

FRENCH CAPTURE TOWN OF BENAY, STATEMENT SAYS PARIS, Sept. 21. In their drive for the outflanking of St. Quentin on the south, the French last night captured the town of Benay and made progress north of that place, says today's war office announcement an-nouncement The text of the official statement issued is-sued at the war office today reads: "Our progress east of Essigny-le-Grand has been accentuated and prisoners have been taken. Artillery activity has been maintained in the region of .St. Quentin and north of the Aisne, The day was calm on the rest of the front." At Castres, where the French are only slightly more than two miles from St. Quentin, a German counter-attack was repulsed. The statement rends: "During the night French troops operating op-erating in the region of St. Quentin captured cap-tured Benay and made progress north of that village. A counter-attack by the enemy upon Castres was repulsed. "There was activity by our own and the enemy's arlillorj' in the region of the plateau north of the Aisne. "In ljorraine, two attempts by the Germans Ger-mans upon our po-sts at A rraenurt and Ancerrillcrs (northwest of Lunevllle) wero without result." "Kastern t heat or, Septemler Ifl: 7n spile of the vigorous resistance of the enemy en-emy rear guards, t he offensive between the Cerna and Vardar riven continued to progress today. Aliitxl cavalry have reached t he regon of Poloshko. Serbian forces have gained a foothold on the lift bank of the Cerna in tho region of Dunyo. "The Serbians have succeeded in accentuating ac-centuating their progress in the direction of Koropishta, whero I hey have traversed particularly difficult ground on the ran go of hills between the Rel;ishnltsa rrver (Continued on Following Pago.) 'MOKE mm stew (Continued from Preceding Page.) and the Boshhava. French and Greek forces have taken tho village of Tushin and have gained a foothold on the town of Ozena. , "Because of difficult communications over the vast amount of grround covered by the operation. It is not possible as yet to estimate the number of prisoners taken, but it is known that- 5000 prisoners and eighty cannon have been captured. "The offensive of the Greeks and British Brit-ish in the I.ako Doiran region, which has been marked by furious battles, continues to progress. Volent counter-attacks have been made In vain by Bulgarian forces.