Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-10-03
important Railway Base in Fam
ders Has Been Taken From
Germans.
SIXTH BATTLE RAGING
French, American, British and Belgian
Armies Are Striking Vital Blows
at Foe from verdun to
the Sea.

London, Oct 1.-The Belgans have
captured Roulers, the important Ger
man rail base in Flanders, the British
are fighting their way through the
streets of Cambria, the French and
Americans and other British armies
are striking vital blows on various
other fronts, and the whole German
line in France from Verdun to the
sea, distance of $50 miles. is rap
of the ages.
Striking east in their offensive be-
tween Ypres and Dixmude, the armies
of King Albert surrounded and quick
~ forced Roulers to capitulate. This
Is vital blow at the enemy. ROulers
is railway junction point which was
highly important for the maintenance
of his submarine bases at Ostend and
Zeebrugge as we'll as his whole Bel
gian Flanders line.
Making the sixth battle front, the
French launched an attack between
the Vesle and the Aisne rivers. west
of Rheims. A considerable advance
was attained on a seven and half
mile front.
Yanks and Poilus Set Trap.
Steady hammerins by General Man
Si1's armies have already reclaimed
more than half of the famous heights
of tho Chemin-desD Danes for the
French The Germans, retiring from
these positions, are giving up i'm
portant defenses before Laon. The
new attack OF General Berthelot be,
tween the Vesle and the Aisne adds
10 the aiIcult.es Of the enemy along
the Aisne
General Hunter Liggett's First army
OF Americans. after having consoli-
dated it's positions between the Meuse
and the Argonne forest, again is ire
sistibly forging ahead.
The French west of the Argonne
have practically reached Monthois,
from which they look eastward across
the valley Of the Are toward Grand,
pre-. It appears that the Americans
and French not only apparently are
going to clear the whole Argonne of
the boches, but are likely TO trap
considerable part of the German ar
mics who must retreat by way of the
Aire valley.
The French are only seven miles
from EouZiers. the German rail juno
ton through which their lines in the
Argonne and the region northeast Of
Verdun are fed General Couraud has
advanced his whole line in the Cham
payne, taking several villages.
The Germans continue to throw
their rapidly dwindling reserves into
the battle opposite the Americans and
French In the Champagne, but the adj
vance of the Yankees and the Poilus
is uEceasing. despite the tremendous
obstacles which the ingenuity Of the
enemy has devised Thus battling on
ward the Americans have passed
through miles OF trenches and barbed
wire and have the kreimhilde line
the Germans mightiest defenses-un.
der range of their artillery
British Make Great Advances.
In Belgium. as on the Cambrai-St
Quentin line, where Americans are co.
operating with distinguished success
the armies of Field Marshal Haig are
sweeping onward
The British made big advance and
captured Cheluwe, which puts them
only two miles outside the Belgian
railroad junction OF Menin.
The German official communication
admits Withdrawals from their post
lions east of niN'nuae and other
points in Relgisn Flanders, as we'll as
from the Wytchaete salient