The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-08-16
Fighting, However, is Not So
Fierce as During Early
Part VI Week.
GERMANS USE RESERVES
But in the Face IF That the
Allied Forces Gain Some
Important Positions -on Both
Sides of Roye.
CThursday.)

| (Thursday.)
| The fighting on the Somme-Oise
battlefront still continues of a minor
chaS%cter compared with that of the
| earl, o. .rt of the week. when the
Germans reinforced their lines and
stopped the eastward sweep of the
Jailed forces.
Nevertheless the British and"
French again have been able to gain.
ground on two important sectors.
the British a short distance north
'"est of Roye, where they took the
villages of Damery and ParvilIers,
and the French on the southern wing
| of the battlefront, where they have
captured two farms in the process OF
clearing the hilly and wooded dis
trict around Lassigny of the enemy.
North of the Somme between AL
bert and Arras the Germans are conx-
tnuing to fall back and the British
are keeping in close contact With
| them. Thusfar the Germans have
definitely given up the towns of
Beaumont-Hamel. Serre, Bpeqaoy
and Puissiex-au-Mont and afseveral
points have corssed ~t,.i55 lAncre ,Slver
with the British following \on
their trail. -
| Rctrograde Move Unexplained.
No official explanation has yet
been advanced OF the retrogrado
movement of tho Germans over this
| front, br+ it is not at all unlikely
THAT the erations on the Somme
front and the harassing tactics the
British recently have employed made
the enemy desirous of establishins
himself on new ground eastward
with the Ancre river barrier be-
tween him and his foes At any
rate, the Hebuterne salient has vlsr
tually been obliterated by the IA
tirement of the Germans and sesffi-
ingly they now will be,-compelled to
make a reaL ydurhent of their line
between the Somme and Arras.
In the week OF fighting on the
Picardy front. 3O,244 prisoners hay.
fallen into the hands of the British
and French armies. according to AN
cthcial announcement OF this nun-
Der the British captured PISA. I'm
ofhcial reports, probably compiled
since the official data was sent fro,.s
the front give the number of pris.
oners in the allies hands since An
gust 8, as $4,000 and say also that
go captured guns thus far hav,
been counted
Russian Situation.
The situation in Russia again IL
looming large. Soviet leaders have,
fed from Moscow, the Bolshevik
capital, 10 Kronstadt, and the soviet
troops now are declared to have be-
gun the evacuation of Moscow.
American troops have begun to dis
embark at Vladivostok to aid the
CZecho-Slovak army in its campaign
in Siberia, an allied forces is chas
ing the enemy more than huadred
miles south of Archangel. op the
road; further allied troops nave
made landing southwest of Arch
angel and are endeavoring to cut off
the retreat of the soviets. while
British troops have arrived at Baku
in the Caucasus on the Caspian sea,
to assist the Armenians in defending
this important seaport against the
Turks, 70 whom it was given by the
Brest-Litovsk treaty in IN attempt
made by the Teutonic allies to dis
member Russia. Thus it will be seen
that allied forces now are operating
jointly on three important sections
of Russian territory-on the north
with a base in the White sea. in the
east with bsse i'm the Sea OF Japan,
and pm the south in Trans-Caucasia.
PSbably realizing the seriousness
of thk situation as It now affects the
central powers. with defeats on the
western front and their military po-