The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-08-22
GERMANS FALL BACK
BEFORE ALLLEDlARMS
Huns Put to Test From Scissors to Releian
Border
Mangln Launched New Offensive on Front of Fifteen
Miles, Capturing Eight Thousand Prison
ers and Scoring Decided Advance

From Sossions TO the Belgian border the German armies
In various important sectors being put the test by
the french and British. And it test that seemingly
bodies i'll for the Teutonic arms for nowhere have hey
been able to sustain the shocks.
Northwest of sossons from the Aisne to the Ose north
and northward the famous Lys salient the Germans
everywhere have been compelled fall back under the
pressure of the French and British troops.
In new oxensve launched by the French General Man.
gin front of approximately Is and half miles from
Pay the Disc to the Aisne Soissons the French
In bitter fighting have carried forward their line to an
erage OF two and half miles and in the first phase of the
battle had turned to French possession
held villages and farms. In addition more than g.
ooo had been herded behind the line as
AL last reports Mang1n's still hard after the
enemy and unofficial accounts placed the French on va
rous sectors well in advance of the positions outlined in
the French official communication
Along the Scarpe River east of Arras, Field Marshal
Has forces also have kept up their harrassng tactics
against the enemy who has been compelled to fall back
eastward along the Scarpe River The Germans resisted
vigorously but all to and the British advanced
their lines to the east of the village of Fampoux Although
Hag claimed only slight forward movement here partic
uar significance attaches to it of the fact that
the Germans have been driven back until they are virtual
upon the old battle line it stood in December 1917
Northward the Lys salient again has been narrowed
down by the operations of the British who north of Mer
vile have taken the villages of Verhock and La Couronne
and also reached the hamlet of This gain rep
resents forward movement of about mile and half and
places the British astrde the road running southwark to
Estaires.
Taken all in the ALL the victories of the allied troops
are highly important The advance of the French
northwest of Sossons taken in conjunction with the
cessful maneuver the Lassgny sector and south of
Roye where Beuvragnes has been captured seemingly
that the enemy forces the Somme to the Disc
must give up their positions and retreat eastward
Indeed, it seems not improbable that Noyon is well
oufanked the south and southeast and the German
line too north of Scissors and that
will be under the necessity of moving his troops northward
from the Vesle towards, if not across the Aisne.
The Germans still stubborny contesting with the
British points of vantage the line south of the Somme
Chaulnes and north of Roye which still in Ger
man hands and which the keynoes the enemy de-
nv tha
French however, Roye apparently the even of fall
ing and with it's fall doubtless the entire line northward
to the Somme also will give way.
The Germans in the Mervle sector of the Lys salient
everywhere being closely followed by the British as
they give up positions under attack and at last accounts
they were showing indication that an immediate halt
is in their mind On the Lys 'front.' although the Germans
showing resistance they not putting their
wonted heart into their work
There has been little fighting along the Vesle River
where the American and French facing the enemy.