Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-08-17
Prince RuppreCht'S Armies Are
Driven From AmienS Salient
With Heavy Losses.
FOCH'S SECOND GREAT BLOW
Allies Force Crossing Of the Vese RiV-
er in Face of Strong Resistance
Plans for Siberian Expedition
March States American
Army Program.
5v EDWARD w. PIckARD.

Having thoroughly whipped the
armies OF the German crown prince
and driven them back beyond the
Vesle river, Foch. now marshal Of
France, turned his attention In the
middle of the week to the forces I'M
der the Bavarian crown prince. Rup-
precht. AT dawn on Thursday the Brit
isli Fourth army and the French First
army, under command of Field Mar
shall Haig, began an offensive on
wide front In the region east and south
east of Amiens. The front under at
tack was about twenty-eight miles in
length. from Albert south to the vicin-
ity of Montdidler.
Within 81 hours the allied forces had
penetrated the enemy lines TO points
from six TO seven miles beyond the start,
had taken more than 10000 prisoners
and great quantities of material and
many guns, and had occupied numerous
towns Their own losses were remark
ably light Tanks led the infantry In
the attack and did wonderfully good
work
On Friday Haig's forces drove rapid
~ forward south Of the Somme beyond
Chaulnes and its very important rnil-
way junction. North Of the river the
Germans put up their stoutest resist
ance the British, with whom an Ameri-
lean division was operating. had Il
bitter fight. However. they finally
smashed through the enemy and TOOK
the whole Of the Chipilly spur, driv-
ing the Huns toward Bray. In this
struggle tn Yankees acted with the
ealantry thar has characterized them
In every fight they have had. They
had to make q forced march TO 90 over
the top at the appointed time, end
went into the battle on the run. The
days operations brought the number
Of prisoners to more than 1900.
by this to-, the two German armies
IN the salient were in grave danger Of
capture or annihlation and General
Won Hntier was making every effort 10
extricate them from the trap. Then,
Friday night and Saturday morning
! Marshal Foch delivered another great
blow. The French First army launched
tremendous atrack south of Montdi-
der and that town. which had been
German base of supplies, WAS soon on
vel0ped and captured together with
many prisoners and great Quantities of
material. The First army did not stop
there. hut. in conjunction with another
French army on it's right and the
British Fourth army on its left. fol-
lowed closely after the retrea'lne
Huns. By Saturday night the Aaiens
salient had been yelSed so that it's
point was directed toward the Somm"
south Of Peronup Boyc WAS imperil"d
II not acmHlly taken. and the armies
Of Crown Prince Rupprecht were In
/ fun flight. Also the fighting had
spread norihward from Albert almost
TO Array. with decided gains there for
/ the allies. In the three days the al
/ lies had taken some 5000 prisoners
and quantities Of material 80 vast
/ they had not been estimated. together
with more than 400 cannon. and had
/ recovered large territory and many
! towns Perhaps most important Of ALL
| they had regained possession Of vital
/ lines OF communication and had re
/ lieved from menace and The Paris
/ Amiens-C Calais railway
-Hz
/ An outstanding feature of The often
/ glve was the great use made of tanks
and alrplanes. Instead of a tong boUI-