The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-08-21
French Deliver Another
Smashing Blow and Cap
ture 5000 Prisoners.
Germans in An Effort to Get Away
Filled the Ravines with Mustard
Gas But This Did Not Stop the
French Who Progressed Eight Miles
Southeast of Noyon.

With the French Army in France,
Aug. 20.-The attack of General Man
gins forces from Fontenoy on the
Aisne to Pimprez on the Oise Wss
progressing favorably when this dis
patch was filed Prisoners were CON
tinuing to arrive at the rear to adj to
the several thousand captured before
noon and the gain in territory at one
o'clock had been from one to two and
a half miles The enemy was resisting
with the greatest yigor at vital spots.
Where the fighting is thickest the
ground is covered with German dead,
The artillery preparation, which w9s
most violent, began yesterday morning
and the enemy, anticipating an at
tack, fastened to reinforce his lines,
sending up two Of his best divisions
which were held in reserve. These
divisions arrived during the nigh in
motor lorries.
An hour and half after the order
was given to attack. infantrymen were
passing Audgnicourt and Vesens ana
were followed Immediately by batter
les of three inch guns. The first '..'9
of defense was then breaking
The Germans on retiring filled the
ravine with mustard gas. This. now
ever, proved only temporary trouble,
the entire ravine being turned in q
short time and the French trooph
progressing toward Blerancourdell,
eight miles southeast of NOyon.
Farther to the right Tartieres, two
and half miles southeast OF Nor
sain, was entered at nine o'clock and
columns of prisoners began to appear
upon the plateau to the rear The ar
tilery reaction was very weak over
this part CT the front
French aviators, flying way down
under the low lying clouds, kept the
staff regularly informed as to the
progress of the attack and harassed
the enemy with machine fire. No Ge--
man fliers tried to interfere with tneir
work. Few were seen in the air dur
ing the morning.
The Germans made desperate de-
tense in the hilly and wooded resion
south of the Disc around CarlepoGt,
Calsne and L0mbroy, where they held
strong positions which were profuseiy
dotted with quick firers. The Four
A-Verre and Croisett farm were taken
by the French after a violent struggle
which proved very costly to the cue
my.
General Mangin's offensive tore'
stalled a German attack which Officers
taken prisoner say had been prepared
for 1880 O'Clock this morning. The
extremely heavy artillery prepara-
tion during the past twenty-fo1r hours
by the French served as warning
to the Germans that the French had
an attack in anticipation ana TWO
fresh divisions. one of Jaeger5, ana
the other of men from Baden, were
brought up during the night IN ljrries
to attempt to defend the German lire
The operations begun this mornnS
by General IMangin's troops between
the Aisne and the Disc, southeast OF
NOyOn ana northwest VI
looks this evening to be spienold
success. General Mangin has taken
from the Germans at Cuts and Mont-
de-Choissy the last heights remalh'hs
south of the Oise in that region.
At Mont -de-Choissy the ffeHcH
troons are within two and one nan
miles of the Olse at Pontoise' the di-
rect road to whicn IS nov lih'er i'e
of the French batteries.
Carlepont. to the southwest IS aisC
IN the hands of the French tonight anc
from this place their guns commah'
another road TO the Disc at sempelg
nv directly south of Noyon.
General Mangin with his rlgat sol
;d,v on the heights north of the Alsh'
around Fontenoy is sweeping the Ger
mans off the high ground south OF th'
oise obliging them to retreat ae'os'
tbe river or retire eastward.
IN either event the success OF 'A'