French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-09-12

Lie wal OCRIA IAAASAt ~ NO
department, Quarternlaster and medi-
cal corps and for Grain branches OF
the signal corps. Instructions to this
effect have been sent to army recruit
ing units throughout the country.
European.
There has been no abatement in the
strength of the Offensive the British,
French and United 5tates troops are
throwing against the German armies
from Arras to the reg.on of scissors.
The British have advanced their
lines materially in the famous Lys
sector, apparently = ,thOut much eff
fort on the part OF tne7foe to restrain
them.
The latest French official communi-
cation records the capture by the
French of Chavigny, three miles to
the northwest of Cnufies, a mile and
a half north of scissors, and the en-
try into the outskirts of Group, a short
distance northeast.
The French have crossed the Ailette
river at Chaps-des-Dames.
The French have crossed the Ca
nal du Nord at several places in the
region north of Noyon, and have adj
| vanced materially in the direction of
Noyon-Ham railroad.
A royal decree has been issued call
ing to the colors recruits Of the classes
of 1900, 1901 and 1902 in Greece and
! Macedonia.
| The Americans are fighting with the
French northwest Of scissors in the
! operation which has in view the blot
ting out of the Noyon sector and the
O~utfanking of the Aisne and the old
! Chemin-des-Dames positions.
Official reports say that the French
and Americans are fighting violently
with the enemy around Juvigny and
/ Chavigny.
In a swift advance in one day, COW
ering more than six miles at certain
points, the French troops south of the
Somme recaptured forty villages.
The left bank Of the Somme has
been reached between Cizancourt and
Nesle, as we'll as the west bank of the
Canal Dunerd, between Nesle and
Noyon.
The German retreat north of the
Avre river has been far more speedy
since the fall of Chalnes than previ-
ously.
The Germans around the Avre river
when they commence their retreat
were harassed by their own mustard
gas shells which they left behind and
which are being fired from German
guns by French gunners.
Says a Vladivostok, Russia, dis
patch: The enemy in considerable
numbers attacked desperately along
the Ussuri front. All the allied forces
participated in the fighting except the
; Americans. Upwards of three hun
dred Of the enemy were killed. The
+ Japanese bore the brunt of the fight
ing.
Entente allied and Czecho-Slovak
patrols in V~ladivostok, Russia, have
succeeded in disarming all the Rus
sian volunteers who revolted and who
had gone over to Lieutenant General
Horvath, the anti-Bolsheviki military
leader in eastern Siberia.
Numerous towns, villages and ham.
lets have fallen into the hands of the
British and French, the Germans being
able only to delay the allies when
they have knocked for admittance to
the German line.
Frenzied counter attacks by the Ger
mans have failed to hold back the
British and French armies.
The British are reported unoffcially
to have reached the western outskirts
Of Thilloy in the nipper movement
they are carrying out against Ba
paume.
In the region around Arras the Brit
ish now are well astride the roads
leading to Douai and Cambria.
Late reports say the British are a.
the gates of Peronne.
The backbone OF the German resist
apcs > reported by the French to have
boan Revered.
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