The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-19
NV The Associated Press)

BY lhe Associated ITeSS)
Launching what may be described
as an extensive local attack, the
French on Sunday evening broke
through the German positions along
the vital sector connecting the
Marne and Picardy battle fields. This
attack was over front of approx
imately nine miles from near Carle-
pont east of the Disc, to Fontenoy
on the Aisne, about six miles west
of Scissors.
1t is officially renorted that an ad-
vance to an average depth of l.3
miles was made all along the front
of attack. A total of LOO prisoners
is reported from Paris. /. is reported
from London that an extreme pene-
tration OF two miles has been made.
The villages of Nampoel and Nou-
vron-Vingre have been captured, and
the French have reached the south
ern edge of the ravine at Andigni-
court, which is between Nampoel
and NOuVrOn- lngTe.
Since the situation along the Aisne
and Vesle and in Picardy has seemed
to be approaching a deadlock indi-
eating a return to the old trench
warfare of the first two years of the
war, an attack in the sector between
the Aisne and the Disc has been eS
pected. This line is vital to the Ger
man positions to each side of it. II
it should be broken the whole Ger
man defensive scheme would be
thrown out OF joint.
Points to Flank Attack
While the front over which the
assault was launched is short COM
pared with those of the Marne and
Picardy drives, te success attained
by the French appears to point to a
possibility of Marshal Foch break
ing the enemy's resistance by a
flank attack instead of direct as
sault against the strong positions
now held by the Germans between
Scissors and Rheims and between
the Disc and the Ancre.
The region in which the attack
was made is quit rough and would
seem to be we'll adapted to defensive
warfare. 1t is intersected by ra-
vines OF some depth and has high
wooded ridges here and there. 1t is
an extension of the hilly district
along the Disc where savage fighting
has been going on for the last week.
Along the Picardy battle front,
there have been local actions, in
which 400 prisoners were taken by
the French. London reports that the
French have captured St. Mard and
St. Beuvraignes, near Rayne, thus
increasing the peril OF that bastion
of the German line west of the
Sommc.
Further north the British have
penetrated the German positions
near Arras. German attacks in the
Flanders sector have been repulsed.
In the Merville sector, the British
have made a new advance, probably
following up the Germans who have
been retiring in this part OF the Lys
salient for the last week.
London, Aug. l9. - During the
fighting last night and today be-
tween the Oise and the Aisne, the
principal trouble encountered by
the French was the resistance of
German machine gunners and from
aviators, who have shown far more
spirit and determination than any
other branch of the German serv-
ice.
Along the whole front of last
nights attack the French reached
their objective in the short time
allotted to the advance.
The yains made by the French
in the last "a hours are regarded
here as important from the view
point of future operations. The
French won valuable high ground