New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-08-23
TAKES ROVE
AND3,000B0CHES
FRENCH GAIN TWO MILES AND
ENTER HAMEL AND CAPTURE
MoRsAIN.
PETA|N VICTOR ON Disc
BRITISH BEAT OFF VICIOUS coUN.
TIERS NEAR MERITS AND IN.
FLiCT HEAVY LOSS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
With the British Army in France.
Aug. 20.-British troops, after captur'
ing Outtersteene ridge. in front Of the
town of Merris, have beaten off q
vicious counter attack and inflicted
heavy losses On the enemy. More than
500 Germans were captured by the
British.
The Germans on three important
sectors of the western battle front
have been compelled to give up posi-.
lions of great strategic value under
the onslaughts of the British and
French troops.
In the Lys sector, west Of Armen.
there's, the enemy has retreated over o
front of nearly six miles, leaving the
town of Merville In British hands. Be-
tween the Matz and Disc rivers the
French have fought their way to the
western outskirts of the dominating
position of Lassigny, and farther south
in this hill and wooded region have de-
bouched from the Thiescourt wood
and also captured the town of Pim-
PREF, situated in the Disc valley o.
the Noyon-C ompiegne road.
Around the curve in the battle line
northwest of Scissors the French from
near Carlepont to Fontenoy, on the
Aisne, a distance of approximately
nine miles, have driven back the en-
envy to an average depth Of more than
a mile and captured several villages
and 1900 prisoners.
Unofficial reports record the cap
ture by the British of the railway sta.
ton on the western outskirts Of Roye,
one of the pivotal points IN the battle
front between the Somme and the
Disc.
The gains are most important for
the allies. for, aside from wide areas
over which the enemy has been com.
PEELED to acknowledge defeat, the
wrenching in the German defense is
becoming daily more noticeable.
Under the new gains of the British
around Roye. and particularly those
made by the French from Lassigny to
the Disc valley and northwest of Sois-
sons, the Germans now are in a bad
predicament.
With the American Army in Lor.
raine, Aug. 19.-The Americans early
Saturday morning captured the wiz
lage of Frapelle and eradicated a con-
siderable German salient in the allied
lines. Prisoners were taken by the
Americans and the Germans evidently
suffered heavy casualties in killed and
wounded.
Paris.-The French made further
progress Saturday north and south OF
the Avre, having taken 1000 prison
ers and numerous machine guns.
Marshal Foch has at last definitely
connected up the battles of tne Aisne
and the Somme.
The Germans are being given no
rest by the Franco-British forces north
and south of the Somme, and the
French and Americans along the
Vesle. The Americans in Lorraine are
harassing the enemy by artillery fire
and local attacks. Nowhere has the
enemy had the better of any encoun-
ter.
Over a front of four miles between
Bailleul and Vieux Berquin on the Lys
sector, the British have advanced
from 1000 to 1000 yards, taking the
village of Outtersteen and 400 pfis-
oners.
A little to the south along the Lys,
near Merville, the British have ad-
vanced their line, and still farther
south, between Arras and Albert, the
Germans have been relieved, under
pressure, of further terrain near Buc
quoy.
Along the Vesle, where the Amerf
CAM and French are holding the line.
there has been considerable decipro-
cal artillery Smelling. The allies gave
the enemy two shells for one
An indication that the German line
Immediately in front of the French
and Americans is thinly held is the
fact that the American patrols at va
rious points have penetrated sectors to
the enemy's barbed wire trenches
without en%countering infantrymen.
In Lorraine, where the Americans
captured the village of Frapelle, near
st. Die, Saturday morning, they have
pressed on and gained more ground,
Notwithstanding a heavy lombard
ment.
Kaiser Trades Poland to Austria.
Misunderstanding to a dispatch to
the Daily Mail from The Hague, Ger
many has demanded that Austria send
ten to fifteen divisions to the western