The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-10-25
ALLIES GAIN IN
GREAT BATTLES
ON WHOLE FRONT
Germans Still Making Very
Stubborn Resistance
BRITISH TAKE 5000 MEN
Americans Cut Into Enemy's Line
Attack Made Under Cover OF
Heavy Mist.

Heavy Mist.
London. Oct 25.-The British have
captured Maing. southwest of valen-
ciennes, il is officially announced. al
so Vendegies Sur. Ecailion on the front
below Valenciennes A German coun.
terattack was repulsed, and. fighting
was resumed early this morning.
Paris, Oct 25.--On the Aisne front
east of Rethel the French have cap
tured the villages of Ambly and
Fleurry, taking hundred prisoners,
the war office announces.
With the Allies in France and Bel
gium, Oct 25.-Since Wednesday
morning the British third army has
taken six thousand prisoners, and the
first and fourth armies each twelve
hundred. Over one hundred cannon
were taken Wednesday and Thursday.
LOST
With the American Army in France
Oct. 24.-The First American Army
hit the German line two smashing
blows today, one on either side of
the Meuse. On the west of the
stream they reached the Freya Stel.
( lung at Grand Carre Farm, north of
Bantheville. East of the river their
advance was larger, taking the line to
Boisetraye Hill, commanding the vii
lage of that name, which lies Just
west Of the important point Danvill-
ers.
ms attack, made in a northeastern
direction, was started early in the
morning under the cover OF mist ami
succeeded from the beginning. the enc
my being taken by surprise. Quick
ly recovering, he directed an intense
artillery and machine gun fire AT Per.
shing's men.
The total advance was one kilome.
ter deep on a front of three kilome-
ters. After the first. surprise the
enemy contended bitterly every foot
OF ground
The advance on Grand Care Farm
took them astride the Germans new
line OF defenses, the Freya Stelluns
This fight was marked by intense ar
tiIlery fire.
London, Oct 25-As the allies in
Belginm and France continue success
filly to storm the stubbornly defended
Germans lines, the Italians on the
Italian northern front have begun Of
iensive against the Austrians. The
British today are smashing their way
eastward between Velenciennes and
Lequernoy. Further south the French
are forcing the enemy from the pocket
between the Ooise and Seppe rivers.
The Americans have made further
gains east and west OF Meuse
London Oct. 25.-On several of the /
most important sectors in France
from the region of Valencennes TO
the east of lie Cateau; orth of I.aon
between the Disc and the Serre rivers 1
and on the front from the Meuse river
to the vicinity OF Grand Pre-battles 7
OF a sanguinary character are being
fought. In these the British. French I
and American troops everywhere are
making progress against the stubborn
ly resisting Germans.
In Belgium the allied forces, owing
to the rapid retreat of the enemy and /
the flooded conditions of the lowlands
nave not yet been able TO come into
tull lighting contact with the Ger.
mans but doubtless a few days more
VIII see them again hard after their
quarry and driving him farther tow
ard his own frontier
South of Valenciemes the British
third and fourth armies with which
Americans are cooperating. have con
tmued successfully to press onward
with Mons and Maubeuge their OBJ
lectives Naienciennes is gradually
hcing enveloped, and soon is destined
TO he pinched ont of the fighting line
by turning movements from the north
and south in the manner generally
adopted in the present day tactics
when it is more desirable to enve'op
a strong position than to waste life
and limb in reaching the objective by
a frontal attack
The Germans in this region continue
to use numerous machine guns to re.
tard the advance of Field Marshal
llaig's men. and the artillery of both
sides is violently active. British avia-
tors are materially aiding the often.
sive by dropping bombs behind the
line or hying low and cutting troop
formations to pieces with machie-gun
fire
South Of the Disc river the French
are making sharp thrusts against the
enemy with the Intention of clearing
out the entire triangle between Flaw
igny and Mont Cornet and taking all
the railroad lines within this region
and also blotting out the salient that
still exists there. The Germans are
counterattacking on all the
front of attack, but the French have
warded off their efforts to regain lost
territory and have gained ground
south Of Mont Cornet. one of the
principal railway functions in this
region
North of Grand Pre- and north of
Verdun, in the sector lying between
tie Meuse river and north OF the Ar
gonne forest. the Americans have cut
further, and deeply, into the enemy's
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