Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-12
Resumption of Allied Drive
May Come With RcturTss
of Dry Weather. IS sa
BRITISH AND FRENCH TROOPS
IN RACE TO TAKE ST. QUENTIN
Poilus Make Additional Progress
North of St. Gobain
Massif. ..s..i-
49,
TONNES GAIN IN FLANDERS
= si;r
Haig's Army Makes Fresh Hcadway
in Epehy and Vermsnd e';cst
Sector. .--4i
TONNES GAIN IN FLANDERS
IEy Associa,ed press. !

Eight weeks TO the day. and for .ths
aed aTTt 'ns srSs u ssartsh ths 5fs5
TTue;; both INC French, and. Brlt,sh
tending from fra Fiandcps to @ the % east sSf
Soissons again have recorded. advances.
but Wednesday witnessed no supa
objectves as past days have brought
thcm before the torrential rains .turM7i
nn and ,ha saaY %orstea
rushed large re-enforccments for@atH
!" n.,;; step the gaps through, which sth
were threatening to filter and wreck
his entire military situation; -, -
elapsed the allied troops have cleared
almost i'll it's entirety the enrn,y-held
!!erritory from the Marine to the AIvue
and Rheims. respectively, is western.
sons. To .Arras the old bulge westward
to Montdidier and toward the doar.
.er,fad liter Of AmisnT am hc has s,;s all but
ing ine across large portion OF the Old
tiindenbure defense .h,e and virtuaiiy7
to the north in Flanders the dssn
saIicnts which threatened the Engflsh
ward and the enemy is expeiied @ fssir
the vantage points from which he had
expected ultimately to make his drive
and thus cause "A diversion OF the ira ns-
port service from England to Sol, h y,.n
mS ihcre had been no ,' let u M s' ii IA
allied offensive. notwithsta ndin 2 ~
i, taci ,hal III German high conma4
had Stincnod its resistance every whleSSs
dscardinr infantry units as such. Ana.
training them into machine gun cSHss
Of guns OF all calibers 10 hold TIN ma
grcssors back. 80 p
;, Wherefore, il is not Improbable that
Foch. when the skies have cleared and
the marshes disappear. again will taLs
up with full impetus his task of put.
tinuc for the two months OF good arSt.
ing weather remaining, IL not beyond
noM 'sHt rTs,3 nsr9d iornss his eo5li win his
farther back toward the Rhine = FssGS.
BRITISH AND FRENCH STi&,
10th NEAR ST. QUENTIN
The British and French troops ar-
prize OF St, Quentin, forces Of bosA
armies now being at. equidista mt points
vicinity, of Nermand and the French
at Etriilcrs and Roupy. To the north.
made further S9s oTiS o., sy
in the operat ton which has for it's nur-.
pose the driving of a wedge midwa@
also have sustained heavy counter,
attacks by the Germans near GouzeaNr
court where the Germans are tryHE
North OF the ST. Gobain massit the
advances, Notwithstanding the bad
condition. of the terrain and the stroTE,
forces OF the enemy aligned against.
them in IN effort to prevent the turn =;
ing of this important position from the
west Heavy artillery activity is in
progress al along this front and like.s
wise on the sector northeast of Sois:a
sons and between the Aisne Vesle Rfv-s
ers. the operations. on which haye,a
direct bearing on those of the ST. ca
balm forest. .rsa
In Flanders the British have besfs
successful in local encounters near M
mentieres and in the region of La
Bassc Canal. .isSSffTgs -
Additional American troops hays
landed Al ArchanSel. northern Russfa:s
to aid the other allied forces in thr
putting down OF tho disturbed condl.
tion in that region. ttssat+
FRENCH ADVANCE
TO oIsE CANAL,
PARIS. September 1.-THE Frencs,
after taking Travecy. a mile and a
the oise Canal the war once an
nounccd Tonight. f3ssSSS
ST. QUENTIN AND IA FERE .ss
BATTLE GROUND a SWAMI,
LONDON. September 1.-THE pitched
dual battle for st. Quentin and Ia
Fere RACES on, despite torrents of rain
that have turned the fighting ground
into one huge swamp. and blinded the
To the French army under GensratsS
Humbcrt batterinE down the doors d.
la Fore belong the chief honors or theS.
with dcfatigabie fsryor after wsskt tS
Of ineessant u lighting. at. last ofSisisl