The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-24
FRENCH ARMIES MAKE NEW GAINS.
 HOT FIGHT ON 5O-MILE FRONT;
 BRITISH DESTROY 33 AIRCRAFT
Allies Pliers Drop 54 Tons of Bombs German Cities Frankfort Raided Again; Mangin Enlargng Spear head North of Soissons Creating Situation That Soon Will Involve Americans Along Vesle

London. Aug 24.---At points on 50-nlile front from Albert to Arras yesterday the British made maximum advances of two miles. The Fourth British Army pushed back the enemy that distance on a seven-mile front, taking 1,500 prisoners. The Third Army captured more than 800 Ger mans in the town of Gomiecourt alone.
 Boiry-B -Becquerelle, Mamelincpurt and Gomiecourt are now held by the Brit fish Third Army, according to a re- port. The British are pushing their attack toward the southeast from Co., miecourt in the direction of Bapaume. Fighting is hottest in this sector.
 In northern Picardy a battle has developed to a point where it seems to be one of the greatest of the war. Disatser is reported to be threatening the German army on this front, and the Germans are throwing masses of men into the struggle in the hope of checking the tide of battle which, dis patches from British headquarters say, is setting against them.
 From the north end of the battle line, at Boiry- -Becquerelle, Boyelier and Gomiecourt comes word of British arvance. Meaulte, near AL bert, has been wrested from the Ger mans. Happy Valley south of Me aulte and north of Bray, has also been taken by the British, it is re- ported.
 South of the somme, the towns of Chuignolles and Herleville are said to have been captured.
 General Sir Julian Byngs British Third Army yesterday took all it's oo- jectives and captured 5000 Germans The British losses again were light The Germans are withdrawing behind the Arras railway.
 Meanwhile General Mangin's French Tenth Army also continues to make progress. The French now occupy line from the Disc Canal along the Ailette River to tw+o kilometers north of Pont St. Mard, thence along the canal northward to Juvigny station.
 Achiet-le-Grand three and @ half miles northwest of Bapaume), and the Bihucourt ridge, overlooking 1rle (west of Bapaume) were captured by the British yesterday, Field Marshal Haig announces in his night report. Thousands of prisoners were taken in yesterdays advance.
 Fierce fighting Is in progress along the whole 3O-nile flIont between Ar ras and Noyon, according to the latest dispatches from the front.
 French patrols have crossed the Aisne Canal near SoissonS. The Ger man position between the Aisne and Vesle rivers is described in all front dispatches as precarious. The British yesterday made an advance of two miles north of Thiepval.
 Twenty-Five German afrpiares and eight balloons were brought down by the British yesterday, the War Office announced tonight. The British lost only three machines. Fifty-four tons of bombs were dropped on various German targets. including the docks at Bruges. Frankfort was agair raided.
 General Mangtn's troops are stead fly enlarging the pocket toward the lower Coucy Forest "infiltrating' along the course of the Aillette, ana Acreating a deep salient north of Sois Eons.
 This salient already provides an ex cellent Jumping off place for an at tack directed eastward against the German AisneVesle positions. ? The French hold upon the Disc be tween Noyon and Chauny menacet the German salient and already ha caused the enemy to withdraw tht big Bertha" from Guiscard, whence it bombarded Paris.
 The crucial point of the entire ad vance is the nearness of the Frencl to Coucy-le-Chateau, which being sit uated on the road to Laon is a pivo tai position in the German position along the whole front.
 Hindenburg continues his with drawal everywhere, trying to escap