Republican farmer., 1918-09-20

ish up to early last evening in their new smash toward St. Quentin, launched early yesterday on a 16-Tnile front. Their advance continues, though op posed by the most vigorous machine gun resistance the Germans have yet put up this year.
 The redoubled Siegfried line has been cut at several points, and at one place, beyond Vileret, the British are already beyond their March 21 posi- tions.
 The advance registered so far ranges between two and three miles,
 Late this afternoon word came from the Somme front of a new French at- tack on a great scale.
 Field Marshal Halg announces in his night report that the attack was launched on a 16-mile front, from Holnon (two and half miles north west of St. Quentin) to Gouzeaucourt (six and half miles northwest of Le CAtelet).
 The outer defenses of the linden burg line were captured, with Fres- noy-le Petit, Berthaucourt and Pom tru. Australian troops captured La vergnIer, Villeret and Hargicourt.
 Some German tanks have been captured by the British. An entire battery of 42 inch guns, with horses is among the booty, At some points an advance of more than 1000 yards was made.
 The villages of Fresnoy-le-Petit (three miles northwest of St Quentn) Basse, Boulogn, Piezires, Villers- Guislaln, Vilieret and Ascension Farm have been taken. Gauche Wood Is surrounded.
 Fighting ranges in Lempire (three and a half miles slightly southwest of Le Cateret), and in Berthaucourt The French, joining the British ac- ton south of Holnon (the village cap tured by the British yesterday as a jumping place." two and a half miles slightly northwest of St, Quen- tn), attacked and made good pro- gress, breaking the Siegfried line at one or more points. The French ob- jectives are limited.
 General Pershing's American troops in Lorraine smashed vigorous Ger man counter-attack southwest of Metz, where the American right rests  bouched from Champey and Vitton- vile across the Moselle bridge in d furious effort to retake Vandieres will lage, one of the most hotly contested places since the Lorraine front was stabilized after the wiping out of the St. Mihiel salient Vandieres is firm ly held by the Americans The Ger man assault was crushed by the American barrage and the attackers turned before they had reached tht American lines.
 German planes are dropping mess ages addressed to German-Americar soldiers, urging them to desert anC promising them they will find Ebert! in Germany. The message contain! bitter attacks on President Wilson.
 The French in their sustained at Jacks north of the Aisne have mad another vital step toward forcing thu Germans off the Chemin- des-Dames They have captured the height an: ruins of Fort Malmaison.
 The Germans are poisoning the well in towns they are forced to abandon according to the newspaper La Franc du Nord, of Boulogne. The pape says a French engineer from that cit and seven companions died iron poison after drinking water in a tow, they had just entered.
 The military commander at Stutt gart, capital of Wuerttemberg, has or dered all female domestics to enro in the compulsory military service be fore Sept 30, according to Germa dispatches. Only those found medi cally unfit will be exempted. The Serbians have advanced te miles on a twenty-mile front in thei drive in Macedonia, according to lates news from that front. Fifty gur have been captured.
 Dispatches state the Bulgars are nc fighting with anything near their old time vigor. Most of their reinforce ments were isolated in the Prilep re zion when they were most urgentl needed. The Serbians are now pust ing downhill and the operation is dt scribed as "going we'll"
 The Allied offensive Is rapidly bt coming general, extending to tt north of Monastir thus menacing u important Bulgarian rail center Prilep. The number of prisone taken by the Serbs, French ar Creeks reached the 1000 mark
 Eleven German airplanes were q stroyed and five others driven out control by the British yesterday. TT British lost ten machines. The Ge man aviators were less active yeste day owing to their heavy losses on Il previous day when they lost 66 m chimes. Twenty-nine and half to- of bombs were dropped by Briti raiding planes in 24 hours
 Washington, Sept 19-The oper tions of the Allied forces in Russ are demanding more of the attentit of the War Department at this tin than those against St. Quentin al Metz.
 As explained yesterday by staff of cers, the plan of campaign in Russ shows a convergence to a point som where near Samara in the province Orenberg According to the late positions of troops on the official m the Allies are advs ucing from Arc angel directly southward toward S mara, and the Japanese, American British, French and Czecho- -Slova are going ahead westward for co centration at the same point.
 The result of this establishment an army at Samara, as stated by oi cials, will be this:
 There will be a rallying point 1 all the progressive elements of Rus against all self-seeking factions:
 The power of pTopagandists Germany will have been broken more than one-half of Russia.