Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-18
COMP PARAT|VE CALM
ON OTHER SECTIONS
OF WESTERN FRONT
Orders Given for Movement
OF Japanese Troops
to Manchuria.
BERLIN REPORTS REPUL Sc
OF ASSAULTS BY ALLIES
U. S. Soldiers Capture Village of
Frapelle, Five Miles
From St. Die.
SECTOR REGARDED AS QUIET
French Make Further Progress
North and South of
Avre River.
SECTOR REGARDED AS QUIET
French Make Further Progress
North and South OF
Avre River.
tBy Associated Pre..1


The Americans in Lorraine b.y.
livened an ordinarily auiescent soo,o,
by taking from the Germans Tho ,,,,
loge or Frapelle. five miles east ~ G,
pie. The action, which started w,,h
tie proportions of raid in the ear,v
hours Saturday morning. develoned
INTO an organized attack under N.
dash or the American troops immcd,-
ateiy after they left their trenches
ne German losses evidently ware
heavy In killed and wounded ana
prisoners also were taken by the Am.r.
leans.
Marshal Foch has at last dehntte,v
connected up the battles OF the Aisn.
ana the Somme. Announcement 20
made that by II local attack the MA
'eau north Of Autreches, about ten
miles northwest of Soissons, has been
carried by the French, and that their
success gives them a position domi-
mating the region extending northward
toward the Disc River.
The attack. while 1t was local in
character. must have had plenty or
power behind 1t to carry the French
lines as far ahead as is indicated I'm
dispatches telling OF the incident. The
French line from the Aisne to the
Disc has been inactive since early In
July. and, at last reports, ran through
Autreches to Moulin n-sous-Toutvent and
thence northwesterly through the
Carlepont and Ourscamp forests to the
Disc. II the whole plateau north OF
Autreches has been taken from the
Germans. the French have advanced
upward OF n mile In that region.
When the Germans halted their re-
treat from the Marne salient and made
stand on the Aisne, 1t was assumed
that blow northwest of Scissors
would be struck sooner or later, as a
success there would outf,ank the Ger
mans and compel their retreat to their
old lines north OF the Chemin -dcs-
DANES. which run along the ridge
north OF the Aisne.
Then the Picardy offensive began
and the eyes of the world were fixed
on the allied progress east OF the Avre
and Ancrc.
This drive has recently been almost
at a standstil. Only local actions have
been fought for the past four days
along the line established by the Ger
mans west OF the Somme. Some OF the
progress. especially along the southern
sector of the line. has been important.
but the Germans are desperately de-
Tending every inch of the high ground
southwest OF Noyon and south Of Las
signy, as we'll as the area around Roye.
The allied pressure is continuous and
heavy. however. and may eventually
break down the enemy resistance.
There are no indications that Marshal
Foch will continue his pressure moth
west OF Soissons. but his first success
there may be exploited. 1t would not
be surprising 10 see the fighting spread
between the Aisne and the Oise. for an
allied victory in that region would
break the hinges of both the EAisne and
Somme lines. and compel L German
retirement on both side of the new
battle area. From SCISSORS to Rheims.
the allies. among them considerable
American force, have been doing little
since tho Americans regained their
positions at Fismette, across the Vesle
from Fismes, after being driven back
over the river by i furious assault by
the Germans. In the Flanders sector.
there have been no cngcg gements OF a
significant character.
The lighting in Russia has begun to
assume proportions which VII attract
considerabl attention, IL present op-
crations continue. The front Is not
continuous, but it may be said to be
in the form OF a crescent, extending
from BatCm. on the Caspian Sea. north
ward along the western foothills OF
the Urals and east of the Nolga River,
and then swinging more to the north
west until 1t reaches Omega Bay, an
arm of the Arctic Ocean.
Announcement is made from Tokyo
that the movement of Japanese troops
TO the Manchurian front has been or
dered. 1t is probable tina. these troops
will be, or have been. landed at Port
Arthur and moved northward toward
the Trans-Baikal country. whore the
Bolsheviki are in control.