The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-17
ALLIES CAPTURE 10000
In Flanders and From Disc to Meuse
Allied Troops Continue Smash
ing Blows.
Blu ILLET1N:

y day. says that it is reported in
the British house of commons
Vi that the Kaiser had abdicated.
y The report lacks confirmation.
* Another dispatch says that y
NJ mobs are marching through the
# streets of Berlin shouting =
= Down with the war and Hin
denburg." The statues of the
NJ Hohenzollerns in the parks
have been torn down and
smashed. The Allies have made y
great gains in Belgium. $4,000 >
prisoners taken within the last
"a hours. The German retreat
is being retarded by the i'm
mense quantities of stores
which choke the roads
H. X n * y
Ii London, Oct I5.-In the fighting
in Flanders the British have captured
Menin, 4 railway center of great i'm
portance, about four miles northwest
of Turcoing.
Allied troops in Flanders are now
within less than a, mile of the Cour-
trail i-Thourout Railroad
Northeast Of Lens the British have
advanced to the neighborhood of
Iiaubourdin, about three miles west
OF Lille, and to the south have
crossed the lIaute Deule Canal, south
Of Pont- -Vendin, and taken several
villages, according to1hc con,munica-
ton of Field Marshal iIaig issued to-
night.
Havre, Oct. S The French and
Belgian troops in Flanders have cap
tured 1000 Germans and taken 30
guns, according to the official com
municat issued by the Belgian Of
flee tonight, and French cavalry is
advancing on Lychtervelde, between
Thourout and Roulers, having
crossed the railroad. The Courtrai-
Ingeltnunster Railway line has been
reached by the French and British
Americans Press Forward
| With the American Army North
west OF Verdun, Oct IS $3.50 p. m.)-
In thu. lace OF the most stubborn re-
sistance conceivable, including liter
ally hundreds of machine gun nests,
the Americans advanced again today
and widened the breach in the kriem-
hide line.
The Germans heavily sheled the
center and left center of the Ameri
can line and desperate counter at
tacks were carried out. These coun-
ter attacks failed.
| The Americans who captured Hill
200 and penetrated the strong wire
defenses between Landres-E t-St.
| St .Juvin
The American gains in general
were accomplished through pursu-
ance Of the strategic policy of sur
rounding the objectives rather thar,
storminy them. The machine-gun-
! filled woods and heights lying in the
path of the American advance were
taken for the most part by going
around Them on the lett and right
and joining forces again on the north
side and clearing up the areas thus
encircled.
London. Oct. 5.-American troops
on patrol crossed the Seize River in
the neighborhood of St. Souplet,
south of lie Cateau, yesterday, and
took 80 prisoners, Field Marshal
Haig announced in an official report
today.
Washington. d. C., Oct 1s-
American troops north of Verdun are
operating against strong enemy po-
Cuncl and Romagne, Gen. Pershing
reported today under date OF yester-
day.
The dispatch follows:
This morning American troops re-
Al. *
they are now operating against posi-
tions of greatest strategic value and
natural strength. Today we passed
beyond the towns of Cunel and Ro-
magne. We have patrols in the Bois
De Bantheville and our attacking line
has penetrated the positions of st.
Georges and Landres-Et-St. Georges.
About $50 prisoners have been re-
ported
With the American Forces North
west of Verdun, Oct. IS (I2:Io p. m)
limits of the Second American
Army, which began operations Octo-
Der I2, under command of Maj. Gen.
Robert L. Bullard, today repulsed a
German raid on their positions.
With the American Army North =,
west of Verdun, Oct IS (Noon).-
Tanks were brought into action by
the Americans today to break way
through the enemy wire entangie-
ments west of Romange.
Despite German resistance the
progress of the Americans. early re-
ports said, was satisfactory today.
The Germans apparently were
ready to contest the ground as stub
bornly as they did yesterday. The
enemy artillery was being used freely
to hold the Americans, but the Amer.
ican. eunners were doing much to
break down the German resistance,