Show AMERICANS TAKE I IMORE MORE TERRITORY PRISONERS ARE TAKEN BY THE a YA YANKEES KEES AND THE HUNS SUFFER HEAVILY French Make Further Progress on Avre Capturing C 1000 Men and Many Machine Guns and Ammunition The Americans in Lorraine have enlivened enlivened en en- livened an ordinarily quiet sector by taking from the Germans the village of Frapelle five miles east of St. St Ole Die The action which started with the proportions of a n raid In the early eally hours Saturday morning developed Into an nn organized attack under the dash of the American troops ImmediatelY immediately immedi Immedi- after they left their trenches The German erman losses evidently w were re heavy In killed and wounded and prisoners pris prisoners also were taken by the Ameri Amen cans Marshal af Foch has ras at last definitely connected up the battles of the Aisne and the Comme Announcement is made that by a local attack the plateau pin pla north of of about ten miles northwest of Soissons has been carried by the French and that their success gives them a position dominatIng dominating ing the region extending northward toward toward to to- ward the Oise Olse river The attack while local In character must have had plenty of power to carry as far ahe ahead d as is indicated in The French line from the Aisne to o the Oise has been inactive since early in July It ran through to sous Moulin-sous sous Touvent awl anti thence northwesterly through the Carlepont Carlepont Carlepont Car- Car lepont and forests to the Oise Olse If the whole plateau north of has been taken from the iho Germans the French have advanced upwards of a mile In that region When the Germans halted their retreat retreat retreat re re- treat from the Marne salient sallent and made madea a u stand on the Aisne it was assumed a blow northwest of Soissons would be lie struck as a success would outflank he the Germans Germans' and compel their retreat to their old lines north of the Chemin- Chemin des Then the offensive began and the eyes of the world were fixed on the allied progress east of the Avre and This drive has recently been almost at a h standstill Only local actions have been fought for the past four four- days along the line established by the Germans west of the Somme Some of the progress especially along the southern sector of the line has been important though hardly noticeable on ona ona ona a map but the Germans are desperately desperate desperate- ly defending every inch of the high ground southwest of Noyon and south of Lassigny as well as the the area around Itoye Roye The Tire allied pressure Is s continuous and may eventually break breakdown breakdown breakdown down enemy resistance |