Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-09-04
FRENCH ADVANCE l
SIX MILES, TAKE |
FORTY VILLAGES
Yanks RepuIse Many Counter
Attacks Near JuWgny.
CAVALRY AFTER FLEEING rod
German Retreat North of the A..
Is More Speedy Since Fall =,
Chaulnes-Petain's Forces
Reach Noyon.

Paris, Aug. 29.-In swift advance
covering more than six miles nj 90,
tain points, the French troops sout,J
Of the Somme recaptured 40 VILLAGES
the war Office announced.
The left bank of the Somma bo
been reached between Cizancourt oDd
Nesle, as well as the west bank of I'D
Conal du Nord, between Nesle and
Noyon, over the greater part of III
course.
American troops in the region "A
Juvigny repulsed numerous German
counter-attacks and broke up an en-.
envy attempt to cross the Vesle south
of BazocheS.
French Arrive at Noyon.
With the French Armies in tbs
Field, Aug. 29.-French cavalry dur.
ing the morning entered Nesle. French
infantry occupied the town of CressvN
two and a half miles southeast a
Nesle. The French Third army can.
tured Dives and, pushing on to Ind
eastward, reached the outskirts a
Noyon.
The retreat of the Germans was
much quickened at some parts of thJ
front, while southeast of ROye ths
entry into action of German guns %
all calibers slackened the French pun.
suit.
Harwassed by Own Shells.
With the French Armies in France
Aug. 29.-The German retreat north
of the Avre river, in Picardy, has been
far more speedy since the fall o.
Chaulnes Wednesday than previously
Vigorously pursued by French troops
and harassed by their own mustard
gas shells, which they left behind and
which are being fired from Germa
guns by French gunners, the enemy
is making haste to cross the RiVef
Ingon in the region of NeSle and thS
Canal du NOrd.
Pursued Toward Canal
General Debeney's men, without
great opposition, advanced four and
half miles during the night and
the morning their cavalry was upon
Nesle, close on the heels of the re-
firing enemy.
The pursuit toward the Canal q
Nord slackened during the mOrnlni
when the enemy's artillery Of all caIl
bers maintained a heavy fire IRON
strong positions west Of the canal
After Chaulnes fell, GOmmiecourI
to the north, and Sept FourS Wer9
taken by the French, while later OreS
sy, Balatre. Champion and RogIlSq
between Nesle and Roye, were cay
tured and more than a score OF olne1
villages occupied.
Towns Mere Piles Of Debris
The battlefield the Germans navy
abandoned presents a picture Oh Ut
yastation and desolation that mas HO
been surpassed during the war my
and the villages round about nav
been quite as thoroughly demOlsn'
as Montdidier and MoreulL N,
cemeteries have been blown up 'o~
stones smashed and graves opeH'I
Tho names of towns in this region
longer have any other slglllncan'
than as a Renaissance ana
graphical designation. lney ',a
ceased to exist as towns Their SIZE
are hardly recognizable for INC
tense Smelling has not only ooll'e,r
streets and defaced boundary Inv y
but has rendered the topography -
recognizable in many places
Rove Filled With Gas. a..
The ruins abandoned by the nc
mons previously were carefully nls
with mustard gas. For tillS i.a ,na
Rove is still inaccessible II o''Dp
ton. ,ro n rs
81 h the e gos ' protectiIes they brought
the present front and large uu-'f Tbad
them the fell into French hands LUZ
are now being fired against the c sno@
t ar, no como Of tbe hundreds Of GERM
guns the French First army H"
since August 8. oIso al
{ n;aos and ID pushing sf eastward to va, sa
D ~ o,7o. "I loss than half a mile ~
Novon. the fall of which appS e &
be only a question Of n0u'''
French so elect.
with the French in possession Il
mlrn tbe Germans will have u
fSsIr POSITIONS fhs to the northeast ID
f hl1ln d PoTlt the Disc and in the ca can
r mast ' on the west bank Of the ... of
On mn Nord. to protect their re abe aid
the forest of St. Gobain anu
denburg line.
British Lose 14,484 in Week nssIartis
London, Aug. 29.-BFlllsI rrednesds