The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-08-22
French MAKE GAINS
ON TEN-MILE FRONT
Endangering Whole Hun Position
at Scissors and on the Aisne
ALLIES CONTINUE ADVANCE
Roye Surrounded and Noyon and
Lassigny About to Fall. Very
Important Points.-Two Hun
Submarines Sunk in the Allan
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German forces holding the VI
tai sector of the battle front be-
tween the Aisne and Disc rivers
were hurled back over a lO-mlle
front Tuesday morning by the
French, according to reports
reaching London, which state the
French have penetrated enemy
positions to a depth of two miles.
This attack which is continual
ton of the assault made north
west of Scissors Sunday night, is
said to endanger the whole Ger
man position at scissors and the
Aisne. 1t is added that the French
success probably will be followed
by German retirement from
Soissons to the Chemin des Denies.
No details of the fighting are
yet available, but an advance OF
two miles in this sector would
seem to place the Germans, both
along the Aisne and before Noyon'
in a serious position, from which
only immediate retreat would pc
possible.
Further north in the hilly re-
gion between Lassigny and Dres-
lincourt, reciprocal artillery fire
is reported. 1t was in this region
that the French debouched from
Thiescourt forest Monday and al
so captured the village of Plm-
prez on the Disc above Rivecourt.
In the old Picardy battlefield the
Germans have been launching re-
heated counter-attacks against
the British line southeast of Chill
". which is north of Roye. These
assaults were repulsed.
French successes on a ~ mile
front east and west of the Disc are
becoming a serious menace to the
German line from the Sommc to
Rheims. West of the Disc, Roye
and Lassigny appear to be doom
ed. The British are at the gates
of Roye, while the French have
reached the western outskirts OF
Lassigny. Their fall will imperil
the German positions at Noyon,
which are being increasingly men
aced by the French advance over
the high ground between the
Aisne and the Disc, southeast OF
Noyon.
In Flanders the allies have
made additional appreciable gains
and the German positions there
are growing more dangerous dal
ly. The allies have advanced SIX
miles and entered the important
town of Merville where the Clar
ence river enters the Lys.
Noyon fast is becoming the cen
trail point of a salient such as thai
which centered around Mont
didier at the beginning of the n
cardy offensive. The stability o:
the present German line from th'
Somme to Rheims depends great
ly upon holding the Noyon salient
whose western cutposts are Roy'
and Lassigny. British troops arr
reported to have driven the wedg'
between Roye and Lassigny t.
Freiseres, cutting the main high
way between the town. In addl
tion to being threatened from tn
west, Lassigny is being approach
ed from the south by Gen. Hum
bert's troops, who have finally de
bouched from Thiescourt wood
Along the western bank of tn
Disc and south of Noyon tn
French have taken Pimperz ant
reached Breslin court to tn
northwest. East of the river, to
ward scissors, Gen. Mangin ha
captured more high ground AM
has taken Morsain and ha
brought his prisoners taken t.