The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-08-07
ALLIES STILL,
PRESSING HUNS
BACK w ARDS
American and French Cannon Reply
& ing Sharply, Paying Hun
Back with Interest
35,0eo GERMAN PRISONERS
Clemenceau Gives Inkling cf Fruits
of Victory-Over 200 Viii
lagos Delivered

lagos Delivered
Conditions on the battle front along
the Vesle river between SoissOns and
Rheims remain unchanged, and rcla-
lively speaking. there have been no
Developments OF outstanding import
ance on the line running form the re-
3 gion of Montdidier toward The English
chann' In both regions, however,
there is a tenseness which seems to
I forecast the approaching dawn of big
events.
The bad wcat'1er-heavy rainfalls,
the swollen G..yer and the resultant
wretched condition of the t, rrafn with
which the Allied troops along the
Vesle now have to contend, not TO
; mention the necessity of bringing up
guns, ammunition and supplies which
we're left far behind in the rapid adj,
Yance-doubtlcss is having more to do
with the holding in leash Of Marshal
Foch's troops tkan the opposition the
Germans are throwing in their way.
The Germans have been shclling
heavily the American and French SOL
dier6 who have made their way across
to the northern bank of the Vesle or
delivering heavy counterIattacks
against them. but everywhere they
have met with q stonewall of resist
ance which has not permitted them to
counter balance their losses of ground.
Allies Stand Firm
They also have deluged the south
'crn line Of the stream with shells of
all calibcrs, including gas proiectiles.
and even have brought their famous
flame t,lrowers into play, but all to no
purpose. The Allies everywhere have
remained firm IN the ground they
have won.
But the Germans have not been per-
rlltted by the Allies to have mon
opoly of the initiative. Where they
have thrown shells against the Ameri-
cans in the Fismes sector, American
!, missiles have been returned with add
~eJ 'o:est. This particular sector
6f >een a vcritable inferno. Gas in
j 20, quantities was released against
!. & Americans who, with their gas
masks adjusted, were virtually un-
harmed by the noxious fumes. A kind
~ switch in the wind at one time even
turned back the gas against the enc
my. The French also have answered
S the Germans in kind.
Moving NOrthward
During the hull in the fighting on
the SOissons- Rheims sector The Ger
mans are believed to be moving. their
main bodies northward to the posi-
lions they have chosen for 4 stand,
and doubtless the German Crown
Prince Is endeaVoring hastily to re-
constitute as well as he may, with the
forces at his command, his badly shat
tered armies.
Am inkling OF what the Germans
have lost in men made prisoner and
guns captured by the Allies has be-
come public through an utterancc of
the French premier at session of
G ,l>
toch was made marshal Of France.
"Ihlrty-fIvc thousand prisoners and
700 cannon have been captured" said
the premier. who addc that Par.s no
longer W"S in danger, that scissors
end Chateau Thierry had been recon
quered and that 200 villages had been
delivered through the formidable
thr!rt Of Foch'S men through the
SolG2onG- Rheims Sali,nt.
Around Montdidier
Much interest attaches to the man.
0euvers Of the Germans and the
French and British troops, with the
latter OF whom some Americans are
believed to be brigaded, on the front
running from Montdidicr to the region
around Ypres. Ultimately the opera
tons here may have strong bearing
on those now in progress in the south
and If the Allies keep up their success
1ul thrustS and the Germans continue
to withdraw compel realignmcnt of
the entire battlefront.
The French north Of Montdidicr
have crossed to the west side of the
Avre river between Braches and Nor
isel. Here a fairly deep penetration
into the German line would become q
direct menace to the junction point of
the armies of the German Crow,
Prince Rupprccht. On both sides of
Amicns, where the Germans have
been sheling British positions, using
quantities Of gas, evidently with the
intention OF. preventing an attack in
force.
In Monday nights attempted Yep
pelin raid on London one of the big
dirigibles was sent crashing in flames
into the North sea by British arimcn
while another, wounded by the guns
of the defending fliers, had to scurry
homeWard TO evade destruction. OF
the five machines whiCr set out on the
mission of devastation not one reached
London.
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