The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-08-09
Bad Weather and Heavy Rains,
However, Have Retarded
ss.s Progress OfspAlIies.
GAS FAILS TO HALT THEM
In the FisHhes Sectar Enemy
HasFSIa Large Quantities
of Gas in Effort to Stop His
PurSHerS. -
wednesday,


I The allied armies have obtained
, further successes over the Germans
in fighting in the Soissons- Rheims
sector and to the north in the Mont
ldidier region and still further@north
in Flanders betweSn the Lave and
olape4 s .rivers. + = xsz
- East sof the town Of Braisne on the
vesle. river, midway between sois-
sons. and RHEIMS, American and
French ty6epg aftertheesttffest kind
{ef hghtiSg, haye efossed the. river
and held an IND positions gained.
iTbe French I'd the north OF Rheims
'haee penetrated the German posi-
fons for more than 400 yards in the
.railroad triangle beginning at
Rheims and running; northeastward
'towarsi Rethel and northwestward
to Loan In addition all positions
preyioes gained by the allied
troops sSughout the entire Rheims
Scissors salient, have been solidly
held, notwithstanding counter at
LtscESand the heavy artillery fire the
Few Semy, hagJpoured down from the
hefsftssn&Gof the vesle upon their
antagQfists. Q. Near where the Vesle
enters the Aisne .eastsof Scissors the
Srench haye overcome the resistance
of the enemy and taken. the village
of Circy-salsogne.
1na,,the. Montdidier sector the
French south and southeast Of the
town have further advanced their
line on this important sector, which
represents the junction point of the
armies sof the German crown prince
1apd OF Crown Prince Rupprecht, OF
Bavaria.
1t remained for the British. how
ever, to deliver the hardest blow
against the Germans Wednesday.
Following up a previous advance in
the famous Lys sector northwest OF
La Bassee, Field Marshal Haig's men
- ished forward their fine over
t4ront of nearly five miles to a depth
on 1000 yards, between the Lave
and Clarence rivers. The details of
this adyarcaAare not yet in hand but
the smaneuvsr. dopbtless will go a
far way toward Iessening the point
OF the nasty salient that, has stood
as menace for months to the Brit
ish line north and ssouthof it.
Next in fnaporta in the further
gaining Of frontings by the French
and Americans acvoss the vesle
where the pressure a&atpst the Ger
mans toward the Afsn& Can be re-
sumed %heT further troops ford the
Stream t ahe gain of ground by
the FreniE III the railway. triangle
north o. INNS also must be look
ed uponz ASA move of great strate-
gic value. Egpm thSik positions the
French poware aBW to dominate
with their guns the railway line over
whith the Germans have been bring.
ing stores from the northeast
through. the town of Rethel and that
line Jruhning Z northwestward across
the Aisne &asl Laon. which un-
doupstily IN 6een used since the
rety&at began for the removal OF
tr}qbs, guns and supplies out of the
tEreatened zone.
7 David Lloyd George. the British
prime minister. addressing the house
of eofnmons. spoke optimistically OF
the Atatus OF the war from the allied
standpoint. He characterized tn.
regent offeDsive on the Aisne-Marno
! Ont ~ the most brilliant in the an
z. q OF the war and praised the par,
e H in II by the Americans. More
"a $50 submarines had been de-
~ sed since the war began and the
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