The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-07-11
ADVANCE OVER
A MILE AND TAKE
400 PRISONERS
IN THE NUMBER WE'RE
FOURTEEN OFFICERS.
TANKS GIVES AID IN ATTACK
Counter Assaults BY the Enemy Beat
en- OFF and All New Positions Main
tanned. - Stakes Being Set
For the Big Drive.

Paris, July 9.-Striking between
Montdidier and the Disc, French
troops with the aid of tanks advanced
more than half a mile, on front OF
two and one,half miles northwest of
F., Compiegnes this morning.
| "A German counter attack was re-
pulsed the French war Office state.
ment announced and all the gains
iwere maintained. Four hundred and
fifty prisoners We're taken. The com
munique says:
| Between Montdidier and the Disc
French troop effected a local opera
ton at three a. m. west of Antheuil,
six miles northwest of Compiegnes.
. There with the aid of tanks the
French troops advanced on a four Kill
ometers front and too Porte and Lo-
ges farms after advancing more than
eighteen meters.
Counter Attacks RepuIsed.
"a German counter attack against
the Loges farm was repulsed. The
French maintained all their gains.
Fourteen officers were included in the
four hundred and fifty prisoners taken.
South of the Aisne there was ac.
tive artillery fighting. At the Chavigny
farm eight miles southwest of Sois.
sons the French troops accentuated
their progress, taking twenty prison
ers including two officers.
Northwest of Chateau Thierry and
Hill 204 there was active cannonading.
In the Champagne region the French
forces also took prisoners"
/ Pershing Hints at Big Drive.
Washington, July 8. - Increasing
proof of Germary's known intentions
of making a new offensive is carried
| in General Pershings daily commun-
iQues posted this afternoon. For sew.
eral days heavy movements of enemy
men, supplies and ammunitions be-
hind the rear areas have been in pro-
gress and that can only mean con-
I Centr.tion for an attack. 1t is assumed
that the American allied flyers are
I keeping close tab on where these
forces are going and it is expected at
this time that the allies will be better
informed than ever before and they
may know just where the blow is to
be expected.
All the present indications are that
! it will be further developments of the
major plans to reach the channel
ports.
War Lords Weary OF Delay,
Paris, July 9.-"Resumption of n
German offensive is necessary but tn"
result is doubtful" Slivebel, an In
dependent Socialist admitted in the
Prussian Landstag, according to
Zurich dispatch to the Matin today.
Slivebol declared that in last spring 3
offensives the German losses were
moro than one hundred thousand in
killed alone The losses in the next
phases of the drive probably will be
even higher.
About nine hundred thousand Amer
leans are in France" Slivebel said,
which about balances the allies loss
es with the German gains in man
power, through the new draft and the
release of men from the eastern front.
Several million more will come
unless we Germans rid the govern
ment of the war politicians" Sliyebel
said.
Hard Blow Looked For.
BY William Phillip Simms, With the
British Armies in France, July 9,-The
next German blow believed to be but
matter of days, is expected to be the
last Won Hindenburg will be able to
deliver, judging from the increased
slowness of his past efforts.
| But every one here believes that it
will be the hardest one he is cabable
of delivering, after his men are once
set in motion, and that it will eclipse
all previous battles in the point of vi
olence considering the number OF men
and the material engaged.
Germans Pounding Australians.
London, July 9.--German artillery
continues to pound the newly won po-
sitions of the Australians south OF
the Somme, Field Marshal Haig an
nounced in his statement from the
British front today.
THE enemy artillery has been act
i've against the position recently cap
tured by the Australians to the south
of the Somme," the statement said.
During the night London troops
carried out successful raid to the
south of Arras, capturing prisoners
and machine guni% the statement
concluded
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