The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-05-30
GERMANS POUR IN
FRESH DIVISIONS
FIGHTING CONTINUED ON THE
soIssoN-RHEIMs FRONT
ALLIES LOSE SOME POSITIONS
Enemy Trying to Drive Wedge into
Defensive Line. English Raids
Near Arras. Suffer Setback
at Chemin des Danes.

at Chemln des Danes.
Paris, May 29.-The German rush
with the arrival of fresh division
continued last might on the two wings
of the SCISSORS Rheims front the
French war office statement anpounc-
ed today.
Meet Dogsed Resistance.
By Henry Woods with the French
Armies in the Fields. May 29.-Devel-
opments of the German offensive up to
the hour of cabling, appeared to indi-
cate that Gen. Ludendorff intends to
drive wedge through the Franco
British line, midway between the Sois-
sons and Rheims sectors.
The Germans apparently have en-
gagged minimizing of twenty-five di-
visions before which the British and
the French forces in the front line are
putting up logged resistance in or
der to permit the reserves to interfere
and turn the tide of battle.
The Germans by their attack in the
Scissors and Rheims sector extended
the offensive battle front from Rheims
to the Flanders Mountains until now
it constitutes battle area of one hun
bred and eighty-six miles across the
line.
There is every indication that the
present attacks is an integral of the
original German offensive plan.
Raids Near Arras,
London, May 29.-"We took a few
prisoners and machine guns in a sue.
cessful raid southeast of Arras; last
night. Field Marshal Haig announceds
IN his official communicate today.
A few prisoners were. also taken
west of Merville last night" the state
ment said
An attempted enemy raid between
Givenchy and LaBasse was repulsed."
THE hostile enemy attacks launch
ed south of Ypres-COmmines Canal
against some of our portions of the
field were repulsed after shell fire.
North Of Albert and in the neigh
borhood of Ayette and east of Ro-
becd and northwest of Merville there
was hostile artillery activities.
East of Arras and south of Lens
there was increased artillery action"
the statement asserted.
Allies Have Lost Ground.
London, May 2S.-Reports from the
battlefelds of France last night both
official and unofficial, show that the
allies have again suffered setback,
whereby they have lost all the ground
in the Chemin des Danes region so
calamity won by the French in the
great struggle from April to October
1917. -.
The enemy had driven a wedge into
the allied line on a front of some
twenty-five miles, and at last reports
the tremendous battle was still con-
tinuing about Fismes, which is the
center of important allied communica-
tons French reserves, however were
arriving to contest a further enemy
advance at this point.
Objective is Still Uncertain
1t is still uncertain whether the Ger
* mans intended this attack as resump
ton of their full scale offensive. The
fact that only from twenty to twenty
five divisions have been engaged is
held to indicate that it was not main
attack, but was originally intended to
attract allied forces from before
Amiens and that the major operation
would be attempted elsewhere.
Retired In Good Order.
With the French Army in France,
Night, May GAS was foreseen, the
entente allied troops were compelled
TO cede ground in the Champagne sec
tor before the massed German attack
but they retired in perfect order.
The Germans, executing repetition
of their tactics of March 81, threw ov-
erwhelming forces which they had
brought forward during the night on
to the lightly held positions extending
from the westward end of the Chemin
DIES Danes to Courcy. near eBlmont.
AT least twenty-five selected German
divisions participated in the onslaught
Among them were two guard divisions.
The attack was preceded by the most
intense bombardment of poison gas
shells, lasting for several hours. me
entire allied line was thinly held by a
division OF British and French troops.
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