The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-31
FRENCHCAPT PTURE
DOMINATING HILL
+ NEAR To NOYON
British Were Held in Hot Fight
at Bullecourt.
GAIN FURTHER NORTH
GAIN FURTHER NORTH
Fierce German Resistance Checks
!, British Rush at Approach to
~. s'a oueant. ,e

fTencn headquarters III france,
Aug. 30.-The armies of General Hum
bert and General Mangih have made
highly important astrategic gains.
North OF the Disc General Humberts
troops have crossed the unfinished
canal and occupied Chemilly on hill
overlooking the Valley of the Meve
and part of Genvry in the hills two
miles north of Noyon. East of Noyon
Mont st. Simeon was carried.
Yesterday morning General Hum
bert's forces. converging in three col
umns on the town, established them
selves in Noyon, passed through and
Joined up with the army of General
Mangin, which crossed at Morlincourt.
An attempt by the enemy to recap.
ture NoyOn by counterattack yester.
day filled, Mont ST. Simeon, 600 feet
high, which protected the enemy's
right flank, was attacked at O'Clock
this morning. The summit was
reached by middle afternoon and the
French thus established a great nat.
nral rampant upon which the enemy
counted Ia guardFhis flank during
the withdrawal before the attacks of
General Debeny and General Rawlin
son.
With the two main lies of defense
the unfinished canal and the Disc
heights-pierecd, the enemy's only
natural line of resistance between his
present unsteady positions and the old
Hindenburg line is the Noyon.St.
Quentin road from Ham to Berlan-
court; but here his right would be
open to attack from the Disc heights.
Z Ispndon, Aug. SO.--East and north.
cast OF Bapaume the British today con.
tinued to gain ground in the face OF
increasing German resistance, which
~ one SECTION of the battlefront held
Haigs men by counterattacks
This was at Bullecourt. on the Hin.
denburg line. and at Hendecourt. 10
the esat of that line. These two vii
lagos, captured by the British early in
the day, were found untenable under
the German assaults, and the British
withdrew to the west OF them.
Elsewhere. however, progress was
general, II not spectacular. Severa
villages on the Arras Bapaume front
we're taken, Haig's forces advancing
both on the Arras-Canibrai and tn,
Bapaume-Cambrai roads
Further south the British nortl
or the Somne pushed their way TO
ward Peronne, taking Combles ant
Clery.
There are now no Germans on IN,
British front south or west of th,
river In the course of the great ben,
at Peronne, and the British are un
Officially reported to have crosse,
the esat bank OF the stream soutl
Of the city.
with the British Forces in France
Aug. 30. (Associated Press. )-Th
lighting British armies again smashe,
their way forward today all along tn
line. There has been very heay,
6ghting almost every where between
the Somme aid Scarpe Rivers. an
under the force OF repeated blows dc
iivcred with machine.like PRECISION th
foe has been forced to abandon man
more towns and extensive strips q
grOnund.
Once more the Germans have su
fered terrible losses. The British hay
freed all the country south and ives
OF the Somme, the last Germans bein
driven behind the river this morninJ
Even there the enemy is not lindin
rest. for the British have crossed IN
stream at least at one place south {
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