The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-10-24
YANKS ENGAGED IN
A NEW OFFENSIVE
AIDING BRITISH BETWEEN LIE
cATEAu AND soLEsMEs
BRUAY HAS been CAPTURED
The French are Meeting With Stub.
born Resistance but are Pushing
On. Their First Army Has
Taken Immense Spoiis.

London, Oct. 23.-British and Amer.
lean troops made heavy attacks today
on the LIE Cateau-Solesmes front OF
about ten miles, Field Marshal Haig
announced in his official war office
statement today.
Good progress" was reported.
sruay Is Captured.
The British forces have captured
Bruay on the western banks of the
Scheldt three miles northeast of Val
enciennes, and are gradually closing
in on the city itself.
Bruay is Taken.
AT an early hour this morning we
attacked on the Cateal-Solesmes 'front.'
the statement said. Further to the
north between Valenciennes and Tour
mia we have taken Bruay and have
reached the western banks of the
Scheldt. Considerable resistance was
made on this front yesterday. In
sharp fighting we drove the enemy
from strong positions and captured
huulUeT VI pIlSOHcIs'
French Making Gains.
Paris, Oct. 23-French troops
gained slightly between Niz-Le-Compte
and Lethour on the Serre front last
night the French war office statement
announced today
The Germans prevented an attempt
to cross the Serre at Souchez. Alo
the Disc there was lively artillery
thI oughout the night. Elsewhere the
night was calm.
Immense Stores Captured.
The First army so far this month
has captured eighty-one guns, one
hundred trench mortars, more than
seven hundred machine guns and
number of other guns, munition de-
pots and all kinds of material.
Going Clear Back to Frontier7
Paris, Oct 23.-The news Of the
last forty-eight hours is corroborat-
i've of Germany's intention to fall back
on the short line from Holland.
through Liege, Metz and Strassburg,
to Switzerland. s5"...
The eleventh hour armistice ma
neuver having failed to save them
from disaster, Won Hindenburg and
Ludendorff are working hand in glove
with Berlin, playing for time.J0as
Giant Guns Captured.
London, Oct. 2S.--Allied forces
which have swept the Germans out of
Belgian Flanders, captured the big
Is inch cannon with which the Ger
mans have been bombarding Dunkirk
during the past year. The gun was
unchanged, according to an official
statement issued at the war Office.
The statement says:
"The group of armies commanded
by the King of Belgium has maintain.
| ed its pressure along the whole front.
In their hurried retreat before the
Belgian army the Geramns were
forced to abandon all their coast de-
Tense guns of which a number were
intact. The big 3S centimeter gun
at Leugunboom, three miles south Of
Glistelles, which was fired UP to the
last minute on the city Of Dunkirk.
was captured unchanged.
Closing In On valeneiennes.
London, Oct. 23.--The British have
entered the western suburbs Of Valen-
ciennes, Field Marshal Haig reports.
thus bringing near the liberation OF
the last large community in French
Flanders held by the enemy the first
onrush of 1914.
The statement merely announced
that British troops have entered the
outskirts, but 1t is more than likely
they have crossed the Scheldt canal
at this point That being the case, the
allies have forced a crossing OF this
waterway, behind which the enemy
has sought refuge, to gain breathing
spell in his retreat.
(By Lowell Mellett)
With the British Armies In France.
Oct. 2s.--The story OF the part the
American soldiers played in the recent