The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-10
PROGRESS made
ON TWO FRONTS
EminentIy Satisfactory Reports
Sent Out by the French
War Office.
GAIN IN LOCAL ATTACKS
Capture Of important Railway Station
Observation-Disclosures Taken East
of BraIsne-Germ.lns Said to
Be Planning Drive.

Paris, Aug. 8-Progress on two
fronts and the repulse Of German
counter-attacks was reported by the
French war Office.
In the Montdidier sector of the
Picardy front the French gained In To-
cal attacks south of FRANKFURT and
southeast Of Mesnil st. Georges.
On the Vesle front the French dur
ing the evening of Tuesday repulsed
German attacks In the district of La
Grange farm and captured the railway
station of Ciry-Salsogne.
One hundred prisoners were cap
tured by the French east of Braisne.
In the Champagne (east of Reims)
the Germans directed local attack
against the French south of Auberive,
but were thrown back.
Great Joint Drive Is Planned.
Paris, Aug. Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg and General Ludendortf,
In order to maintain their prestige and
stimulate the depressed morale at
home, intend to strike a blow against
the British front in conjunction with
the German feet, according to usu-
ally well informed sources. An order
issued by the new chief Of the German
admiralty staff, Admiral Scheer, Is
said to express the wish Of the fleet to
attack the British naval forces.
%ho Ivr1I thn Rnin1c-
| Scissor front continues.
Enemy Is Lacking Effectlves.
Marcel Hutin, in the Echo de Paris,
says there is no hurry and says that
the allies have proof that The Ger
mans are asnf farip serize u sess
| lack Of effectives. Some observers
believe that the Germans are regroup-
ing their divisions in preparation fol
\ broad defensive rather than an early
offensive.
Indications are that the German
high command Is about ready to pro-
| coed with another shortening of the
western front on different sector
| than that between Scissors and Reims
| according to a Zurich dispatch to the
Matin quoting Berlin dispatch to the
Baldische Presse of Karlsruhe. This
| operation, 1t Is added, has In view moi
only the occupation of more favorable
positions, but more particularly, the
release of a considerable number Of
divisions.
German Battalion Wiped Out.
With the American Army on the
Aisne-Marne Front, Aug. 8.--Amerlcar
machine gunners, protecting location
on the Vesle, west of Fismes, wiped
out an entire battalion Of German In
fantrymen and machine gunners. The
Germans, at the time, were getting
into position to attack group O.
American bridge builders who were ap
preaching the location.
/ Launch Big Assaults.
SUNDAY morning at ten O'Clock tn
Il Americans launched an assault agains
the town itself, which was being de
| Tended by the Prussian guards ant
gave proof of that superior and IRE
sistible class which characterize
them. The Americans followed close
ly the Fismette, which Is situate'
north of the Vesle. Soldiers Of tn
| guard, In spite of their tenacity, ha
to fall back and their pursuers agai
engaged them In battle.
"There were furious hand-to-han
struggles. AS at Sergy and Servings
| our allies excelled in combat with tn
bayonet, making a real massacre Q
the enemy.
Eat four o'clock they were master
of the town and its suburbs, the great
err part of which is in ruins"
French Take 100000 Shells.
With the French Army in France
Aug. S.-The army Of General Bel
thelot, whose operations had a marke
effect in bringing about the retreat
the crown prince across the Vesle b
breaking down the eastern pivot of HI
line southwest of Reims, effecte
heavy captures of material during tn
fighting.
In one wood alone 100000 shells {
heavy caliber were taken, in additio
!, to immense quantities Of other mat
, rial.
, This army also captured several ba
, teries of heavy and field guns whic
are now being used against the enem
Its booty comprises likewise, In add
ton to 1913 machine guns, hundreds {