The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-08-15
HUNS HOWL FOR HELP
AGAINST THE ALLIES
Have Lost $4,000 Prisoners and
Vast Supplies
RUSSIA CAUSES TROUBLE
Bolshevih Government Reported
0verthrown.-- Hun Submarine
in American Waters Destroys
Lightship and Other Craft
French Make Gains.

FRENCH wake Gd1uS.
Hun submarines operating a.
long the coast on this side of the
Atlantic have sunk a number of
fishing and other vessels and de-
stroyed the Frying Pan Shoals
ightship. Nevertheless, American
troops continue to pass safely "a
cross to England and France.
The Bolsheviki government in
Russia has fallen, and Lenine and
Trotsky and the German ambassa-
dor have fled to Kronstadt. Con-
ditions in all parts of Russia are
very unfavorable for the Ger
mans, who are threatening to oc-
cupy Petrograd.
The Entente Allies and Japan
have landed troops at Vladivos-
tok and on the Murmanst coast
on the north of Russia to aid the
Czecho-Slovaks in restoring order
and setting up a stable govern
ment in Siberia.
Germany has been compelled to
call on Austria Hungary for help
Oh the western front, and Aus
trian troops are ell route there, it
lis reported. These troops, it is
reported, are being sent to quiet
sectors Of the front.
On the western front, the AL
lied forces, Tuesday morning, be-
gan general attack on the Ger
man line, running from Chaulnes
south to the Disc river, a front of
about Is miles. Dispatches filed
at London shortly after noon re-
ported gains at various points, es-
pecially on the vital sector south
of Lassigny Lassigny Massif,
the steep slopes of which have
been strongly defended by the
Germans, is reported to be almost
within the grasp of the French,
and unofficial dispatches say there
is every prospect that this natural
fortress will soon be wrested from
the enemy.
If the allies succeed in captur-
ing the heights south Of Lassigny,
they will force the enemy to re-
tire from the Roye district, as they
will have the Roye-Noyon road
under fire and will dominate the
whole region with their artillery.
Late dispatches tell of hard
fighting in Fismette on the north
bank of the Vesle between Sois-
sons and Rheims. The allies a.
mong whom Americans are known
to be fighting, were forced from
the villages of Fismette, but re-
captured their positions on the ;
north side of the, river.
From Chaulnes northward to
the Ancre river, the allies appear
to have been held up by the des-
perate German defense. There
have been local engagements a.
long this line, but at no point have
the British and Americans engag-
ed on this front succeeded in max
ing any marked impression on the
German lines, which are virtually
resting on the old trench systems
held by the enemy in 1916.
Vat some points, especially in the
center of the Picardy battlefield,
the heavy artillery has been
brought up and is shelling the en-
emy positions west Of the Somme
and south of Peronne effectively.
The French are also bringing up
guns with which to break the en-
emy resistance between Roye and
Noyon. The Germans here have
depended upon artillery barrages
10 stop all attacks. British, French
and American bomberS are har-
'assing the rear of the enemy DO
,itions increasingly. During Sun
lay LOT tons of bombs were drop
ped on railway functions, concen-
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