Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-09-04
OWN GAS TURNED ON GEIeNIA Ms.
Since Fall OF Chaulnes Huns Speed
Up Withdrawal North OF Ancre.

Aug. 28.--The German retreat north
Of the Avre river has been far more
speedy since the fall Of Chaulnes than
previously vigorously pursued by
the French troops and harassed by
their own mustard gas shells, which
they left behind and which are being
fired from German guns by French
gunners, the enemy is making haste
to cross the river Ingon in the region
Of Ncsle and the Canal Dunord.
Gen. Denby's men, without great
opposition, advanced four ard a half
miles during the night. and this
morning their cavalry was upon
Nesle, close on the heels Of the re-
treating enemy.
After Chaulnes fell, Gomiecourt, to
the north, and Sept-FOurs, Roiglise,
between Nesle and Roye, we're cap
tured and more than a score Of other
villages occupied.
The battlefield the Germans have
abandoned presented picture of de-
vastation and desolation that has
been unsurpassed during the war.
Roye ard the villages round about
have been quite as thoroughly de-
molished as was Montdidier and Mo-
reiul. Even cemeteries have been
blown up, tomstones smashed and
graves opened
The ruins abandoned by tho Ger
mans previously were carefully filled
u,ft y otn nrI
Roye is still inaccessible for occupa-
ton.
The Germans were not able to use
all the gas projectiles they brought to
the present front and large dumps Of
them foil into French hands. They
are now being fired against the en-
emy from some OF the hundreds Of
German guns captured.
Britons Pounding Huns.
With the British Army in France,
Aug. 2S.--On both sides of the
Scarpe river hard fighting continued
to-day, the British launching fresh
attacks and wrestling from the desper-
ately resisting enemy additional val
liable stretches Of ground, many
more advantageous positions and
numerous towns, including Croisilles.
In the center Of the wide battlefield
OH which three British armies-the
first third and fourth--are operating,
there seems to be a slight pause.
South Of the Somme, Fray and Alb
laincourt were taken by the British,
wtf
mans were hard pressed south Of
these points by the French.
Storm after storm has been sweep
ing across this section Of France to-
day, but, despite the unfavorable
weather, the forces in the north have
driven deep into the hurriedly ar
ranged enemy defenses, smothering
with their fire hordes of Huns.
These Huns had been thrown into
the fighting in this section in an ef-
fort to keep the British from pene-
trating the famous Queant-Drocourt
switch line, which formed the north
ern continuation OF tho old Hinden-
burg line after the British last year
bett the Germans back from Arras.
This line has been approached in sew
eral places and has been reached in
at least one place in the neighborhood
OF the Sensee river.
The success Of this drive here and
the breaking through OF the old Ger
man defense system may have far
reaching effects both in the north and
the south.
South OF the Scarpe the Canadians
finally captured all of Pelves after a
brisk street fight and their advanced
patrols entered Remy and Haucourt.
The British are we'll east of Fontaine.
Extremely heavy fighting Is in pro-
gress from point south OF Lens,
south across the Scarpe river to the
Arras-Cambrai road, but the British
are making progress everywhere,
beating down tho German resistance
with series Of steady blows.
At least two new German divisions
have just been identified in this fight
ing and more may appear ere long.
But while they are opposing the allies
and in most cases are battling hard,
there have been some instances in
which the enemy troops have shown
themselvs to be excessively nervous, |
which Is but natural, considering the |