Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-08-09

YANKEES JOIN BIG ADVANCE
With the French They Drive Enemy
From Prepared Positions-Huns'
Retreat Is Preciptate, Says
the Official Communique.

Aisne-Marne Front, Aug. 81 The
Fere-en-Tardenois advanced stimuli
toneously early Friday, the French oc-
cupying Camaille and Cramoiselle be-
fore seven o'clock and French infantry
men entering Saponay at eight o'clock.
The Americans meantime kept pace
with the French through the forest of
Nesles. Several locomotives and 40
railroad cars were taken at Saponay.
Capture Big Base.
Paris, Aug. 3.-Soissons, the west
ern pivot of the crown princes Aisne
front, was captured by the allies late
Friday.
With the fall of this big base the
entire German right flank between the
Aisne and the Ourcq collapsed.
Ville-en-Tardenois, pivot of the Ger
man east flank southwest Of Reims,
also has been taken.
Capture of both cities was announced
by the war office in it's night COM
munique.
Retreat on All Sides.
With the French Army in France,
Aug. 3-The Germans are in retreat
on all sides of the salient between the
Aisne and the Marine. On the west the
French and British troops, continuing
their push of Thursday, have reached
the valley of the Crise, a little river
which joins the Aisne at Scissors.
The Germans, therefore, have aban-
doned the whole of the Chaudan pla-
: teau between the Coeuvres and Crise
valley.
=. The German crown princes often
sire on the Marine has failed as sig
2 nally as that of Won Kluck in 1914,
and the last word is with the allies.
) - Paris, Aug. 3.--After two days of ir-
resistible attacks the German line of
: defense north of the Ourcq river is
crumbling and at many points the Ger
mans are in headlong flight.
Franco-Americans have swept still
further north in the center of the line,
while to the east, over toward Reims,
the allies are more than three miles
north of the Reims-Dormans road.
This in brief sketches one of the
most important advances made since
the Germans were thrown back across
the Marine, as announced in the official
war office communique.
With scissors gone, and the French
on the east bank of the Crise river,
which runs southeast from scissors,
as the report reveals, the allied long
range guns now practically command
the crossings of the VeSle river as far
as the important center of Braisne.
Enemy in Flight.
One of the most significant passages
In the French official report is the use
of the word ''precipitately" in describ-
ing the German retirement. This para
graph says:
!. Attacks conducted during the last
two days, by our troops and allied
units on the front north of the Marine,
have obtained full success, the Ger
mans having been pushed back over
all the line and forced to abandon the
positions of resistance they had chosen
between Fere-en-Tardevois and Vile
en-Tardenois, and to retreat precipi-
lately"
With the Americans on the Ourcq,
Aug. 3.-Under cover of mist and rain
the Americans today attacked and
made favorable progress.
They debouched from Seringes Ga
mile aad half northwest of Fere-en-
Tar -, in the direction of Nesles,
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of Fere-enTardenois) in
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on toward Cou-
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tward in the di-
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