The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-08-01
The European War.

Inc European War.
Kaiser Wilhelm has called ii council
of all the petty German rulers and mil
itary chiefs to discuss the desperate
situation of affairs.
Austrian soldiers shot and killed five
children and one woman and wounded
many others in Il bread riot in Iilsen
last Thursday.
In an aerial battle last Thursday be-
tween six American and twelve Ger
man airrlanes four of the German
planes We're brought down.
The second week Of the Franco
American counter-offenSive began last
Thursday on a sixteen mile front The
Allies advanced under Il bright moon
light, and pressed forward so rapidly
that the Huns quickened their retreat,
and the pursuers had much difficulty
in locating them. The base of the Ger
man salient is now about twenty-fOur
miles in width and the line is being
continually shortened. Every mile
that the Allies advance lessons the
chances of the Hun army escaping.
The Germans are reported as being
hard pressed for troops. and there is
an urgent demand for reserves. On the
Amse- Marne front the enemy's forces
numbered 76S,0OO men. and the losses
here We're the heaviest of any engage
ment since the beginning of the war.
Austrian military and civil officials
are preparing for double offensive
movement against the Allies in Italy
and OH the Balkan front, according to
last Thursdays dispatches.
Germany has decided not to send
troops to Murman. on the north coast
of Russia, to fight the allied troops.
Japan will send troops to assist the
Allies in Siberia, who, with the Czecho-
and the Bolsheviki.
Near Chateau Thierry, last Friday.
the Allies moved up their heaviest ar
tillery and threw shells into the Ger
man lines as far as Saponay tive and
one-half miles northeast of Oulchy lie
chateau) and beyond Fere-en-Tardell-
ois 1.-TWO miles southeast Of Saponay)
Districts to the south were also being
raked by allied shells. Indications
were that the enemy was making pre-
parations for further withdrawal.
He has been struggling to hold the
northern half of Fere forest and Ris
forest. but the Allies are aking prog
ress in the work of ousting him from
the remainder OF these woods
The entire German front. about
twenty miles in width. collapsed last
Saturday before an advance of the
Franco-American troops. This places
man supply center.
Sunday the Allies entered Chateau
Thierry. and took possession of the
railway and several surrounding vii
lagos. This caused the Germans to use
fresh troops that were intended fol
another offensive attack. AT another
pGint the Germans We're pushed back
to a position about fifty miles from
Paris.
A division of American troops has
| been forwarded from France to Italy
The allied advance Sunday caused
| the Germans to retreat northward anG
abandon the Ourcq River line of de
fense. They will probably make d
stand on the VeSle River about three
miles from their former position. They
burned the villages as they fed.
| The Germans are reported as mass
ing reserves between Rheims and Sois
SONS. If they stop the Allies on thai
line. it is believed that they will make
Il sixth offensive. SOisSOns is the Ger
man base, and they feel much concerl
over it's possible capture. as the Allie.
are now about eight miles southeast OF
that place. The Allies are threatenin.
an encircling movement.
Tuesday afternoon the French ad
vanced further in the sector of til.
Adre toward Aubilly and also in thu
neighborhoad of Villers Agron ant
Grand Rozey. where they are progres
sing toward the plateau between tht
Ourcq and Vesle Rivers.
| \ heavy struggle is raging arount
Buzancy and plessiere wood, where
400 prisoners were taken from three
different German divisions.
The enemy. it is estimated, has pu
seventy-one divisions into the, battle
SO far. ten Of them being withdraw
from Prince Rupprecht's army il
Flanders. (Seventy-one divisions il
$4,000 men,
The magnitude Of the battle Of th'
| .Aisne- Marine front is shown by til,
fact that the Germans have drawn re
serves from four different zones il
an attempt to stem the advance Of th'
French, Americans. British and 1tal
| ians. 1t was known that a large mum
Der of Prince Rupprecht's reserves hat
| been drawn from Flanders. and ais
that reinfOrcements had been rushet
from the campagne and verdun sec
| tors.
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