The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-21
ALLIES DRIVE
ENEMY BACK FOR
TWO MORE MILES
They Captured More Than 5000
Prisoners.
NEW OFFENSIVE STARTED
With Allied Successes All Along Line,
Enemy viii Have to Move Troops
North OF Alsnc.
NEW OFFENSIVE STARTED

Paris, Aug. 2O.-FrOl" seasons 10
the Belgian border the German arm
les on various important sectors are
being put to the test by the French
and British And it is Z test that
seemingly bodies i'll for the Teutonic
arms, for nowhere have they been
able to sustain the shocks
Northwest Of Sossons, from the
.Aisne to the Oisne; north Of the Disc
TO the region around Roye, IN the
Arras sector and northward on the
famous Lys salient the Germans
everywhere have been compelled to
fall back under the pressure of the
French and British troops.
In a new offensive launched by the
French General Mangin over a front
Of approximately fifteen and one-half
miles, from Bailly ON the Disc to the
Aisne, near scissors, the French in
bitter fighting have carried forward
/ their line 10 an average depth Of TWO
and Il half miles, and in the first
/ phases OF the battle had returned TO
/ French possession numerous enemy
| held villages and farms. In addition
more than 5000 Germans had been
herded behind the line as prisoners.
! At last reports Mengin's men were
/ still hard after the enemy, and unof-
fetal accounts placed the French on
various sectors well in advance of
| he positions outlined in the French
/ official communication.
Along the Scarpe river, east of Ar
ras, Field Marshal Haigs forces also
nave kept up their ,harassng tactics
against the enemy, who has been com
PEELED to fall back eastward along the
Scarpe river. The Germans resisted
vigorously. but all to no purpose, and
he British advanced their lines to the
east of the village Of Fampoux.
Northward the Lys salient again
has been narrowed down by the oper
atoms of the British. who. north OF
Mervlle. have taken the village OF
Vierhoent and Lacauronne, and also
reached the hamlet of l'Epinette
This gain represents a forward move
mcnt of about mile and a half, and
places the British astride the road
running sOuiheastward TO Estaires
Taken all n all the new victories oI
he Allied troops are highly importan
mes The advance Of the Frencl
Northwest of scissors. taken in con
function with the successful move
mcnts on the Lassigny sector, ant
south OF Roye. where Beauvraigne'
has been captured, seemingly means
that the enemy forces from the Som
me to the Disc soon must give nj
their positions and retreat eastward
indeed it seems not improbable nov
4 hat the enemy is we'll outiianked ol
/ the south and southeast, and the Gel
! man line is none TOO secure north O
! scissors. that the enemy will be NJ
! der the necessity Of moving hi
! troops northward from the Vesl
! toward. If not across the Aisne.
| The Germans still are stubborn
! ,ontestng with the British points {
| vantage on the line south of I'll
Somme near Chaulnes and north {
| Roye. which are still in Gcrma
hands. and which are the key stonC
% the enemy defense line With u
apture Of Beuvraignes by the Frcnr
- / however, tOye apparently ~ VII u
evo of falling, and with its fall. dOut
i less. the entire line northward to q
a Somme also will give way.
Cl The Germans In the Mervile sect
~ Of tho Lys salient everywhere are /
ing closely followed by the British
they give up positions under alta
and at last accounts they were sho
ing no indication that an immedia
halt is in their mind On the l.
front. although the Germans a
showing some resistance they are n
putting their wontod heart into {
work
There has been little lighting aIo
the Vosle river, where the America
and French are facing the enemy