The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1918-08-23
FRENCH AND BRITISH ADVANCE
ON FoUR-MILE LINE AND CAP
TURE MANY PRISONERS.
.LYS SECTOR CRUMBLEs
FocH STRATEGY CONNECTS BAT
TIE LINES IN WEST-GIvEs
ALLIES NEW ADVANTAGE.
err Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
With the American Army in Lor-
raine. Aug. 19.-The Americans early
Saturday morning captured the vii
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 tie Aisne
and the Somme
Gradually the famous Lys salient in
the region west of Armentieres is Civ
ing way under the pressure OF the
British. Again Field Marshal Haig's
forces have compelled the enemy to
seek ground to the eastward, where
he will be more secure from the shells
of the big guns which for several
over the entire salient, working havoc
among the defenders OF the insecure
line.
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
ter.
Over 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 pris-
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.
While as a whole the German, line
between the Somme and the Disc fs
still holding, the British have drawn
nearer the road from Chaulnes to
Roye between Chilly and Franzart,
placing Roye in greater jeopardy from
the north. To the south of Roye, over
the four-mile front between Beuvra-
ignes and Canny-Sur-Matz, a violent
artillery duel is raging Here the
French are endeavoring to outflank
both Roye and Lassigny by a drive
eastward In the direction of the road
leading southeastward from Roye to
Noyon- Their efforts have been sue
cessful
Along the vesle, where the Ameri-
cans 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 encountering 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.
From Archangel allied troops have
made good progress southwark to-
ward Vologda and apparently are OPP
Grating in three columns agl1rst the
Boisneviki, whose opposition Is re-
ported to have been fairly determined
The occupation of Baku by British
| troops who came north through Persia
| from Bagdad is a blow to German and
Turkish pretenses in the Caucasus To
the north the Czecho-Slovak are in
| force along the Volga under the com
mand of experienced Russian gem
erals. In eastern Siberia the position
of the allies apparently is improving
as more troops are landed at vladiv-
| ostok.
Paris, Aug. 1.-THE total of Ger
man Losses from the beginning of the
war to the end of July, 1918, is under
stood to be 6,000,0OO according to the
morning newspapers. The figures in
clude 100000 killed up to the begin
ming of the German offensive last
March. From March 81 to June IT
the Germans are said to have lost
10000 in killed alone