The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-08-21
HUNS UNABLE TO STAND
TERRIFIC BLOWS BEING
! DELIVERED BY ALLIES
French and British Forces Strike
Savageiy and Enemy Line Recoils
and Then Yields Important
Ground
OVER 5000 HUN PRISONERS
Offensive Between the Disc and
the Aisne and Makes
Great Progress


From Soissons to the Belgian bor-
der the German armies in various I'M
p0rtant sectors are being put to the
test by the French and British. And
1t is test that seemingly BODIES i'll
for the Teutonic arms, for nowhere
have they been able to sustain the
shocks.
Northwest of Scissors, from the
Aisne to the Disc, north of the Disc
Ito the region around koye in the Ar
!, ras, sector and northward on the fa-i
&mous Lys salient, the Germans every
atwhere have been compelled to fall
back under the pressure of the French
and British troops.
New Offensive
in new offensive launched by the
French general, Mang:n, over 4 front
of approximately fifteen and 2 h"lf
miles, from Bailly, on the Oisc to tha
Aisne, near Scissors, the French in
their bitter fighting have carried for
ward their line to an average dept!.
of two and half miles, and in the
first phases of the battle had turned
to French possession numerous enc
my-held villages and farms. In addi-
tion more than 5000 Germans had
been herded behind the line ah pris-
OnerS.
On Heels OF Foe
At last reports Manguin's men were
still hard after the enemy and unoffi-
cial accounts placed the French on va
ri6us sectors well in advance of the
positions outlined in the French Off
cial communication.
Along the Scarpe river, east of Ar
ras, Field Marshal Haig's forces also
nave kept up their harassing tactics
against the enemy, who has been COM
PEELED to fall back eastward along the
Scarpe river The Germans resisted
vigorously, but all to no purpose, and
. the British advanced their lines to the
east OF the village Of Fampoux. AL
though Haig claimed only slight
=, forward movement here, particular
of the fact that the Germans have
been driven back until. they are vir
tually upon the old battle line as it
stood in December, 1917.
Lys Salient Narrowed
Northward the Lys salient again
has been narrowed down by the opera
tions of the British, who, north of
Mervllle, have taken the villages of
Vlerheek and La Couronnc, and also
reached the hamlet of L'Epinette,
d
ment OF about mile and a half and
!, places the British astride the road
running southeaStward to Estaires.
4 taken all in all, the new victories
OF the Allied troops are highly impor
tant ones. The advances of the French
northwest of SOissons, taken in con-
Il junction with tt successful manoeu
,,rvers on the Lassigne sector and south
of Roye, where Beauvraignes has been
, captured, seemingly means that the
enemy forces from the Somme to the
, Olse soon must give up their positions
and retreat eastward. Indeed, it seems
not improbable now that Noyon is
wei! outflanked on the south and
southeast and the German line is none
too secure north Of Scissors, and that
the enemy viii be under the necessity
of moving his troops nortbward from
the Vesle toward, if not across. the
Aisne.
The Germans still are stubbornly
contesting with the British points Of
vantage on the line south of the
%fSomme, near Chaulnes, and north Of
sRoye, which are still in German hands,
and which are the keystone to the
enemy defense line. With the capture
Of Beauyraignes by the French, how
ever, Roye apparently is on the eve
OF falling and with it's fall doubtless
the entire line northward to the
Sonme also will give way.
The Germans in the Mcrvilie sector
Of the Lys salient everywhere are be-
'1ng closely followed by the British, as
they give us positions under attack at
! last accounts they were showing no
indication that an immediate halt is in
their mind. On the Lys front, although
fhe Germans are showing some resist
ance, they are not putting their won't
ed heart into the work.
There has been little fighting along
/ the Vesle river, where the Americans
and French are facing the eenmy.
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IAN OIL TANKER