The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-07-17
french ADVANCE
near THE Disc
Strike South OF Montdidier After
Mile Gain in Picardy; Cap
ture CasteI.
SECTOR VITAL TO DEFENSE
Bad Weather Interferes With Opera
tons in British Sectors-Line Es-
tabIished From Adriatic to Sa-
Ioniki-FIanders Positions
improved.

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Improved.
Paris, July 1j.-In an operation
carried out on the front between Mont
didier and the Disc the French pushed
their advanced posts forward n dis
lance of approximately 800 yards in
the vicinity of the Porte farm, the
war office announced.
Make Gain in Picardy.
London. July IL. Success has
crowned further smashes by the allies
into the German lines between Ypres
and Reims. For more than two weeks
the allies have been jamming into the
German defenses here and there and
the results now are just as favorable
as at the beginning.
For the first time since the attrltion
campaign was undertaken the French
have struck with force In the Picardy
battle field Along the Avre river,
northwest of Montdidier, the French
advanced their lines more than mile
on front of three miles and captured
IAore than 500 prisoners. This blow,
like the recent ones by the British as
tribe the Somme, has driven the enemy
back on sector vital to the defense
of Amiens, the objective of the first
German offensive begun on March FL
In capturing Castel and strong for
titled positions the French have adj
vanced almost to the western bank of
the Avre. Raineval will endanger Sc
rously the German positions west of
the Avre to below Montdidier. west of
which the Americans hold Cantlgny.
In an advance toward Amiens the Ger
mans would either follow the SOmme
or go up the valley of the Avre, which
joins the Somme near Amiens.
French Gains Not Taken Seriously.
Between the Aisne and the Marine
the Germans apparently still do not
take seriously the French gains east
of the forest of Villers-COtterets. Sew
eral villages and fortified farms, in
Guiding Corey and Longpont, have been
taken by the French this week, but the
Germans have made no serious efforts
To retake the positions and are slowly
being forced off the high ground.
Bad weather continues on the Brit
ish front especially hinderng the
bombing activities of British airmen.
The German artillery fire is strong on
the Lys salient. At Bucquoy, between
Albert and Arrns, the British drove off
German raiders. Continuation of the
rain on the British front may hamper
German plans. as the battle grounds
of Flanders and Picardy are likely to
turn into seas of mud. Rain has been
falling on the British front Off and on
for five days.
Allies Establish Connected Lines.
Francn-Itnlan success in Albania
has enabled the allies to establish II
connected battle line over stretch of
200 miles from Saloniki to the Adri-
attic. The Italians rapidly are clearing
up the territory taken from the Aus
trians In western Albania and prepar- |
ing for attacks.
Between Bcrat and Lake Ochrida |
the French have occupied all the ter
ritory between the Devol and TOmo- |
RIGA rivers except near the confluence.
where the Austrians still hold out |
Prisoners taken by the French in the
TOmorica valley have increased to 400
improve Positions in Flanders.
With the British Army in France,
July 1j.-British operations In the |
Morris sector have brought It's line for
ward to within about Il quarter of a
mile west of that important hamlet
and secured for the British complete
observation of German positions in the
village.
Australian units pushed forward
northwest of Merris along n front Of
/ 200 yards to depth Of go yards and
drove the enemy from the high ground
overlooking Merris. Friday the Brit
sh infantry again reached out and
claimed another strip of hostile ground
west of Norris. This advance reached
4 maximum depth Of about half II mile
md extended along front of 1900
Yards.
As a result the British positions
nave been greatly improved and a
small salient which had been left In
he line after Tuesdays attack has
,een eliminated.