The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-15

Paris.-The number Of prisoners
taken by the French and British In
Picardy now exceeds 10000, according
70 tho latest news from the battle
front
The Allies also have taken an enor-
nous booty In guns and material, says
Marcel Hutin, in the Echo de Paris.
London.-In aeria, fighting preced'
ing the offensive In Picardy British
airmen accounted for 20 German ma
chimes, Is of which were destroyed,
says the Official statement on aerial
operations.
The historic battle-ground between
Amlens and Montdidier again Is the
scene OF a mighty contest. This time
the British and French are the az
gressors and under their fierce on
slaught in the first days battle they
have penetrated deeply into the Ger
man positions over a front OF more
than twenty miles, reaching from the
region OF Breaches to the neighborhood
OF Morlancourt.
Following short, but intensive, ar
tillery preparation and aided by misty
weather, the Allied attack took the
Germans completely by surprise, and
they fed almost everywhere pell nell
before the tanks. motor machine-gun
batteries, cavalry and infantry sent
against them. All the detectives set
for the Australians. Canadians, Eng
lishmen and Frenchmen were attained.
Thousands OF Germans were made
prisoners. Large numbers OF guns
were captured, great quantities OF war
materials were taken and score or
more OF villages and hamlets were re-
occupied. In addition heavy casual
ties were inflicted on the enemy.
At its deepest point the penetration
OF the German line was about seven
and a half miles, eastward from VIII
lers-Bretonneux to Framerville. while
from two TO five miles were gained all
along the front from northwest OF
Montdidier to the region around Nor
lancourt. The lighting extended north
OF Morlancourt TO the Albert sector,
but no official details concerning. 1t
have been received.
The advance of the Allies in the
center places them well astride the
railroad leading from Vlllers-Breton-
neaux to the important junction at
Chaulnes, where lines radiate north
eastward toward Peronne and south
ward through Roye to Complegne.
The railway running northward to
Braye was crossed when the Allies
took Frameryille.
Well out on the plains and pressing
forward. seemingly with great rapid
ity, the present offensive Of the French
and British gives promise OF seriously
menacing the entire German front
from near the sea to Rheims II the
drive should proceed eastward to any
great depth It cannot but affect the
armies OF the German Crown Prince
now fighting between the Aisne and
the Vesle, and possibly make imprac'
ticable stand by them even north Of
the Aisne, along the Chemin-des'
Danes.
Under the pressure OF the offensive
the menace to the channel ports also
seems for the moment, at least, to
vanish. Alseady there have been signs
10 the northward from the positions
where Crown Prince Rupprecht had
formed his men for a drive toward the
channel that retrograde movement
by the Germans was not improbable.
With the armies Of his imperial cousin
on the Soissons-Rheims salient badly
shattered and unable to lend him aid
when his own forces north OF Mont.
didier are in a rather precarious posi-
tion as a result OF the new offensive,
It is apparent that Rupprecht will have
TO defer his campaign to cut off the