Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-08-09
BRITISH WIN ON WIDE FRONT
Haie's Men Push Line Forward Half a
Mile on Flve-MiIe Front in Fiar-
ders-U. S. Fighters lnfIict
Heavy Losses on Huns
While Strengthening
Out Line.

communication issued.
Counter-attacks by the Germans
along the Braye-Corbie road have been
repulsed.
(The above dispatch indicates
continuance of the German withdraw
al in this sector, north of the La
Bassee canal, in Flanders, begun Mon
day. The Braye-Corbie road is east
of Amiens, on the Picardy battle line.)
Franco-U. S. Troops Cross Vesle.
Paris, Aug. S.-Foch's nibbling pro-
cess along the north bank of the
Vesle continues. 1t resulted in local
gains which the Germans failed to re-
cover despite heavy counter-attacks.
Wherever the allies took a foothold
they stood their ground.
Additional crossings of the Vesle
We're made. Americans forced the
stream together with French east of
Braisne.
They captured and held the Cry
Salsogne railroad station. Braispe it.
self seems doomed to fall shortly.
In their success near Braisne the
French and Americans took 100 pris-
oners. The enemy appears to have
strong forces in this neighborhood.
A German local attack in Cham
pagn, south of Auberive, was thrown
back.
North of Relms the French have
pushed back the German line more
than 400 yards.
Southwest of Morlancourt the Ger
mans attacked on Tuesday and took
some of the ground recently won by
Australians astride the Bray Corbie
road, Yesterday morning the British
concentrated, won back the posi-
TONS
Some of the enemy troops were
taken captive. London claims that all
the detectives fixed for the counter
attack have been secured.
Shells Fail to Halt Yanks.
With the American Army on the
Aisne-Marne Front. Aug .S-Under an
Inferno of shrapnel and machine gun
fire and waves of gas the Americans
forced their way over the yesle river,
while rain, varying at times from a
drizzle to a downpour. drenched the
battlefield.
French troops already have gained
positions on the American left, and
the joint movement has Strengthened
out the line from point west of
Bazoches to Fismes.
The Germans lost considerably in
casualties and also few prisoners,
whose stories tended to corroborate
the expressed opinion of those previ-
ously taken that the Germans expect
TO continue their retreat until the bank
of the Aisne is reached.
The attack began between four and
ave O'Clock Tuesday afternoon. By
midnight those men on the right had
reached their detectives, the main
highway east and west extending
along the foothills that rise north of
the river and become a series of ter
races to the Aisne.
Left Wing Delayed.
The left wing was delayed, but it
also reached the line shortly before
eight o'clock Wednesday morning.
The artilleries on both sides are
still fighting dueIs over the captured
positions, and the Germans also have
continued small arm resistance. But
with every hour the positions of both
the French and Americans have been
rendered more secure.
Guns Prepare the Wav
The attack by the infantry was pre-
coded by artillery preparation. Under
cover of a barrage the engineers COM
pleted the work of throwing light
bridges over the stream, while the Of
ficers chosen to lead the dash across
the river placed their men i'm position.
working them downward toward the
points where the bridges were known
to be-
The challenges were accepted imma-
diately by the German artillery. and in
few minutes the intermittent re-
ports of the guns which had heen
heard all day were merged into one
great roar.
counter-Attack Fails.
When the order for their advance
was given the men for the most part
swept forward in open formation. but
the Germans were ready with de-
Tense, and even more. They had pre-
pared. although apparently hastily.
eounter-attack, which they launched
without success later in the ENGAGE
ment.
The men on the American right
fought their way along the chosen
routes. Some Of them foundered
across through the water. while others
used the bridges that still were stand
ing.
oOA detachment of Germans, some