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Show AMERICANS TAKE ! MORE TERRITORY i i 'prisoners are taken by the i yankees and the huns suffer heavily. ! French Make Further Progress on I Avre, Capturing 1000 Men and j Many Machine Guns and j Ammunition. i Tile Americans in Lorraine have en-. en-. livened an ordinarily quiet sector by taking from the Germans the village of Frapelle, five miles east of St. Die. The action, which started with the proportions of a raid in the early hours Saturday morning, developed Into an organized attack under the dasli of the American troops immediately immedi-ately after they left their trendies. The German losses evidently were heavy in killed aud wounded and prisoners pris-oners also were taken by the Americans. Ameri-cans. Marshal Foch has at last definitely connected up the battles of the Aisne and the Coinme. Announcement is made that, by a local attack, the plateau pla-teau north of Autreches, about ten miles northwest of Soissons, has been carried by the French and that their success gives them a position dominating dominat-ing the region exter jing northward toward to-ward the Oise river. The attack, while local in character, must have had plenty of power to carry as far ahead as is indicated in dispaches. The French line from the Aisne to the Oise has been inactive since early in July. It ran through Autreches to Moulin-sous-Touvent and thence northwesterly through the Car-lepont Car-lepont and Ourscamp forests to the Oise. If the whole plateau north of Autreches has been taken from the Germans, the French have advanced upwards of a mile in that region. When the Germans halted their retreat re-treat from the Marne salient and made a stand on the Aisne, it was assumed a blow northwest of Soissons would he struck, as a success would outflank the Germans and compel their retreat to their old lines north of the Chemin-des-Dames. Then the Picardy offensive began aud the eyes of the world were fixed on the allied progress east of the Avre and Ancre. This drive has recently been almost at a standstill. Only local actions have been fought for the past 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. a map, but the Germans are desperate ly defending every inch of the high ground southwest of Noyon and south of Lassigny, as well as the the area around Roye. The allied pressure is continuous and may eventually break down enemy resistance. |