The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-08-20
EVCH STRIKE AGAIN BETWEEN ALSNE AND OLSE RIVERS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SUMMARY OF The WAR
(BY Aesoclated Presa.N

Allied forces again are making
progress on important sectors.
Further successful development of
the present operations doubtIessly
will force the enemy to readjust his
line at least locally, if not over the
entire front from Ypres to Rheims.
French successes on 2o-miIe
front east and west of the Disc are
becoming a serious menace to the
German line from the Somme to
Rheims. West of the Disc, Roye
and Lassigny appear to be doomed.
The British are at the gates of Roye
while the French have reached the
western outskirts of Lassigny. The
fall of these towns will imperiI the
enemy position at Noyon, which also
is being threatened increasingly by
the French advance over the high
ground between the Aisne and the
Disc southeast of Noyon.
In Flanders the British have made
additional appreciabIe gains In the
Lys salient and the German situa-
ton within the salient appears more
difficult daily. Driving against the
head of the salient the British have
won ground on a front of nearly six
miles and entered the important
town of MerviIIe, where the Clarence
river enters the Lys.
Noyen fast is becoming The GEN.
tral point of q salient such as that
which eentered around Montdidier at
the beginning of the Pioardy Of
fensiVe. The stability of the present
German line from the somme to
Rheims depends greatly upon the
holding of the Noyon salient, whose
western outposts are Roye and
Lassisny. British troops are re-
ported TO have reached the railroad
station in the western suburbs of
Roye. The French have driven the
wedge between Roye and Lassigny
way between the towns. In addi- .
tion to being threatened from the
west Lassigny is being approached
from the south by Gen. Humbert's
troops who have finally debouched
from Thieseourt wood.
NoYON THREATENED.
Along the western bank of the
Oise and south of Neyon the French
have taken PimPerz and reached
Dreslincourt, to the northwest. East
of the river toward SCISSORS general
Mangn has captured more high
ground and has taken Morsain and
Brought his total of prisoners to
1900. In this operation the French
not only menace the security ofI
Noyon but relieved the pressure
against Soissons. From the heights
around Morsain they can lombard
the German battery positions north |
of Scissors which have been haras- |
sing the allied occupants Of that city.
II Marshal Foch can succeed in |
pinohing off Noyon and advancing
northward he virtually wiz! compel
the Germans TO retire from the
present line north of Roye toward !
Arras and will hasten, if not force,
a German retreat TO the north OF
the Aisne between Soissone and
Rheims. Success around Noyon
might be far reaching but the terrain
is difficult because of the woods and
hiIIs and German resistance may
continue stubborn. There has been
only sIiaht activity along the Vesle, |
the French and Americans having |
erIaraed their holdings north of the
river by slight advances at several
points. =,
There has been no change in the
German tactics between the Ancre |
and the Disc which might have been |
expected from the appointment of
General Won Boehn, who conducted |
the retreat from the Marine, to the
supreme command in that area. |
Berlin says that Monday allied |
thrusts west of Chaulnea and north |
of Roye failed while the French |
were repulsed in a vigorous battle |
between the Disc and the Aisne.
London reports the checking of
German efforts between HerIeviIe
and Lihons, west Of ChauInes.
In the operations around merVille |
the British have taken more priso-
ners in addition to the 675 captured |
in the storn1ins Of outtersteen ridge.
The forward movements in the Lys !
strond German positions on the hills
north and northwest of Armentieres4
but if they can be continued east
ward the high ground from Mont
KemmeI eastward will be outflanked.
Allied forces in ViadivostoLr have
been reinforced by the arrival of a |
second American transport and a /
third transport is expected. North
of Vladivostok the Czecho- -SIovak
troops have been engaged in heavy
with the BolsheVik forces
on the Ussuri front. The czechs
have been driven from their outposts.