The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-08-21
FRENCH CAPTURE
5000 TEUT0NS
IN O|SE DRIVE
General Mangin's Army Makes
Terrific Attack on Fifteen
Mile Front.
FOE DRIVEN FROM TOWNS
French Break Up German Counter
9Iow-ViIIage Near Roye Captured
After Desperate Fighting
British Advance Lines
Along the Scarpe.

Along the Scarpe.
Paris, Aug. 21.-General Mangin's
army captured 5000 German prisoners,
making nearly IL 1000 taken in the last
two days on the LaSSigny-O -OiSe-Aisne
front, and more are being brought to
the rear. Great quantities of war ma
terial also have been taken, check on
which so far has been impossible.
Great Victory for French.
With the French Army in France,
Aug. 21.-The operation begun Tues
day morning by General Mangin's
troops between the Aisne and the Disc,
southeast of NoyOn and northwest Of
SOissons, looks at this time to be
splendid success General Mangin has
taken from the Germans at Cuts and
Mont de Choisy the last heights re-
naming south of the Disc in that re-
giOn.
At Mont de Choisy the French troops
are within two and one-half miles Of
the Disc at PontOise, the direct road
to which is now under fire of the
frencn mattor1oS.
French Take carIepont.
CarlepOnt, to the southwest, Is also
in the hands of the French, and from
this place their guns command another
road to the Disc at Sempigny, directly
south of Noyon.
Huns Swept Off Heights.
General Mangin, with his right SOL
idly on the heights north of the Aisne
around Fontenoy, is sweeping the Ger
mans off the high ground south of the
Disc, Obliging them to retreat across
the river or retire eastward. In either
event the region about Noyon will be
exposed to artillery attacks from the
south, the southeast and the south
west
The Germans are fighting hard
against this danger, relying principally
upon machine guns, as in the ThfeS-
court region, thus indicating that some
of their artillery already is crossing
the River Disc.
One corps had counted 1.5OO prison
ers up to noon, and had immense guam
titles of captured war materials.
Block Counter Blow.
London, Aug. 21.-More than 5000
prisoners and an advance Of an aver
age depth of nearly three miles are
to the credit of General Mangin's
Tenth French army after a terrific
stroke delivered in the morning over
a 15-mile front extending from FOn-
tenOy, on the Aisne river, to Pimprez,
on the Disc river.
The Paris official communique says
that many villages have been captured
in the operation, which greatly i'm
perils the German line from SOissons
westward past Noyon to Lassigny.
The French, who struck at 7:1O
o'clock in the morning, broke In the
making, according to battle front dis
patches, German counter-glow, which
was to have been delivered by two
fresh divisions of German troops.
These units, brought up during the
night in mOtOrtrucks, apparently were
caught in the furious advance of the
French and hurled back with the rest
of the enemy divisions which had been
holding the line.
General Mangin's advance has not
as yet been stayed, and prisoners are
still coming to the rear.
Take Town Near Roye.
The French official report also an
nounces that Beuvraignes, lying
about three miles south and bit to
the east Of Roye, has been occupied
fighting.
According to latest information Gen
eral Mangin's line now runs from La
Quenotierie north of Bailly, to Champ
de Merlier, to Petit Maupas, to Cuts,
to Mill 100, to Vezaponin, and to Val
scissors.
On Tartiers Plateau.
The French have captured VeZa-
pOnin and are on the plateau east of
Tartiers. From that point the line is
uncertain, but the French are prog
ressing towards Camelit.
The Germans are making stiff re-
sistance at Hill 16O, which is east of
LIE Mesnil. The advance is over most
difficult ground, but the attack is still
proceeding.
Up to the north, In Flanders, the
German retirement from the Lys
salient is still continuing, with no in
dication Of when the retrograde move
ment will stop The maximum depth
of British advance, on the heels of
the retiring enemy, is now about four