Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-19
mANG|MS MEN PUSH
AHEADAT A|SNE;HAIG
ACTIVE IN FLANDERS
London, Aug. l9-(4:25 p. M )-The French
in the new drive betwee Lassigny and the Ose

ter north of Ribecourt
and are still progressing
it was learned this after
noon.
Attacking at o'clock last night on
a ten mile front between the Oise
and the Aisne, General Magin's Tenth
army reached a maximum advance
of two miles at 10 80 D. NJ and had
captured 500 prisoners, it was learned
here today
The French are now in possession
OF an important piece OF ground me.
nacing the new German lines along
the Aisne. Enemy aviators are report
ed to have been most active during
last night and this morning aod Ger.
man machine gunners have been fight
ing doggedly
French Capture 100.
! Paris. Aug. 19.-Capture of the town
of Nouvron.V Vingre, seven miles north
west of Soissons together with 100
prisoners was announced by the
French war Office today.
Between the Disc and the Aisne the
French have rectitied a front on
distance of about fifteen kilometers
toward the north of Carlepont.
The War in Summary.
Striking forward on ten mile
line last night General Mangins
tenth army advanced to maximum
depth of two miles and captured
seventeen hundred prisoners.
The success gives the allies a
much improved connection OF the
battle fronts of the Aisne- -Marne and
\ Plcardy sectors and permitted the
French to rectify front of fifteen
kilometers from Carlepont to Fon-
teony.
Carlepont is four miles east OF
Ribecourt and Fontenoy is five
miles west Of Scissors.
The French captured the import.
ant plateau west of Nampool and
the ravine south of Andgnicourt,
thus constituting serious menace
to the German line. ~ lumG1
The British attacked on a four
mile front in Flanders gaining
more than mile The British took
several hundred prisoners.
The new drive enabled Haig to
establish base at Merville which
is the apex of the Lye wedge in
Flanders and from which a further
drive is expected
Bomb German Police.
/ London, Aug 1.-two persons
were killed and a general exodus from
Warsaw followed the hurting of a
bomb at the chief Of the German Sc.
eret police there, according to Ex.
change Telegraph dispatches receiy.
ed today. German military patrols
fought the conspirators, two OF whom
. were shot to death.
Guards trhuout the city have been
strengthened and wholesale arrests
have been made.
III Let Ship Contracts.
, Washington, Aug l9.-During the
week ending August -, forty-thres
contracts for wooden ships were
, placed by the shipping board, Emer-
gency Fleet Corporation. Chief
, among them was contract for eigh.
3 teen cargo carr iers of $500 tons to
the Universal Shipbuilding Company
a, Houston, Tex.
D.. Paris August 10 -- The fall of Rove
5 and Lausiguy German stronghold
T confronting allied troops in their
sweep through Picardy expected to.
> day.
q simultaneously with the now con.
! olstant retirement by the Germans all
> along the front in Picardy, the allies
) are consolidating their gains so that
e they will be able TO strike a new blow
+ when strategy beckons.
The fall OF Roye and Lass gny IN.
r wolves withdrawal by tho enemy all
e the way from Elesles to Noyne.
r Vermont Ex-Governor Killed.
d ST. Johnsburry, VT August lg -
/. George Herbert Prouty. governor OF
G Vermont from 1908 TO 1910 was In.
G stantly killed early today when an
!. automobile in which he was riding In
g Wateryille, Canada. was run down
Il by a Grand Trunk Express train
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