Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-29

ing south of the Somme are said to
be advancing, but details of their
progress do not appear in official
announcements.
To the west of Arras the Germans
have launched heavy counterattacks,
which were repulsed. according to
the British official report, but ii is
admitted by London that the British
forces holding positions at Oppy
have been withdrawn to the west
of that village.
Rear Guard Fights
The Germans apparently are
lighting rear guard actions. along
the Canal du Nord, which runs
from Noyon to Nesle. The French
are close to this waterway at Fres-
noy wood.
The situation as it stands to-day
closely resembles that in the Marine
sector after the Germans had made
a determined star along the Ourcq.
1t was found that their resistance
of the main German army of the
Marne salient, and it is probable
that General Won Boehm has sue
ceeded in moving the great por-
ton of his army and artillery behind
the Somme river and along the
Ham -Chauny line.
Huns Leave Pocket
The development of the allied ad-,
vance would seem to indicate that
the pocket on the southern end of
the battleline is being emptied and
that there is little hope that the
Allies will be able to catch any large
number of enemy troops there.
Having forced the Germans to re-
treat between the Somme and the
hn oil
the advantage gained and continue
their advance eastward. Further
enemy retirements between Rheims
and Arras are not unexpected in
allied capitals.
French troops, after an advance
of nearly seven miles on a front of
nineteen miles, are fighting for the
crossings of the Canal du Nord in
the region north of Noyon, which
gradually is being encircled. lmme-
diately south of the Somme British
forces have moved east to within
three miles of the Somme, south
of where it bends at Peronne, and
are driving the enemy back to the
river crossings at Peronne and Brie.
Pressure Continues
From the Somme to north of Ba-
paume, the British pressure con-
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an advance of more than a mile on
a front of more than five miles in
the region of Curlu and northward.
Bapaume still holds out, but the
British are pushing well east of that
point on the north.
Southeast OF Arras, where the
British have crossed the Hinden-
burg line, they are now east of
Boiry- Notre Dame about three miles
east of Monchy-le-PreuX and threat
ening seriously the Queant-Drocourt
support line. North, of the Scarpe
German counterattacks seemingly
have held up the advance astride
the Arras-Douai high road.
Yankees Strike Blow
While the enforced retirement of
the enemy from the Roye-Chaulnes
line adds TO the difficulties of the
German troops north of the Somme,
French and American troops under
General Mangin have struck at the
vital salient north of scissors. An
advance of nearly one mile has been
made in the Chavigny region. The
Allies here are driving toward the
heights at the western end of the
Chemin des Danes, imperiling the
German lines both to the east and
to the west. To the east, along the
Vesle, the Germans have reacted
violently against the Americans at
Fismette and had regained that viii
lage Wednesday night in heavy
fighting. The enemy, however, did
not succeed in crossing the Vesle,
which evidently was his intention.
Berlin says $50 Americans We're
made prisoner here and at Bazoches,
several miles to the west. At Ba
zoches the Americans gained a
strong foothold in the village in
stubborn fighting.
Viewed from the maps, the Ger
man withdrawal before French
pressure in the Nesle region, coupled
with allied activities elsewhere on
the great battle front, which has be-
come the greatest of the war, hardly