Evening star., 1918-08-25
AMERICAN.

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/. August iss.-section At Que of eur
outposts between Ffsmes and
Basoches. which was driven basle In
. small local action. later Seockupied
its position. ! ! -
Our faviators successfully bombed
the railroad yards. at CondAna. All
our machines returned. 49,.
BRITISH.
August 36.-New Zealanders, strfk-
ing in the direction Of Bapaums. have
captured Cojeul with irresistible dash.
Elsewhere there were successful local
actions. =.
The only cojeul appearing on the
maps is the Cojeul river. nine miles
north Of Bapaume, but 1t is possible
that there Is a small village of that
name near Bapaume. m
August a. Despite considerable
hostile reinforoements progress has
been made along the whole front OF
our attack. Bray has been captured
and q number OF prisoners -0ecured
along the high ground southeast OF
Albert. Several hundred prisoners
were taken.
La Boissells. ovillsrA Mouqust farm.
Thiepval and Grandoourt have been
captured. with over 1000 prisoners.
Our troops are astrfde tho ThiepvaI
ridge and arc advancing eastward
Miraumont. where. the enemy held
out until outhanked by advancing
columns
Aertal-on the night of August e.
zS our sQuadrons made q concen-
Ta,n tratsd attack on hostile airdronies at
Of bombs were dropped. Several large
sheds and hangers were set on flre.
One OF our machines attacked the
chemical factories at Saaralben (Lor-
raine1. where excellent results were
seen after the attack. Various rail-
ways and targets were also bombed
with good effect. Three Of our ma
chimes are missing.
The morning Of August 20 our ma
chimes successfully attacked the hos
raine). The railway junction at
Treves was also attacked and several
bursts were observed in the station
and on the railway. All our machines
returned safely.
missing on the night Of August 1S-
- has been located undamaged.
Friday night in spite Of thunder.
storms our sQuadrons carried out
operations against the hostile air
drome and the railway junction at
age was done at the latter place. All
our machines returned safely.
On the remainder of the British
front successful local actions have
taken place. North Of the Scarpe
we have captured section Of the
- - Tov
poux. with a few prisoners.
North Of the La Bassee canal we
captured the old British front line
east and northeast of Givenchy and
made progress into the German posi-
tions In a completely successful
operation. in which all detectives
were secured with moro than sixty
prisoners. During the night our
patrols occupied Neuf Berauin. where
a number of German dead were found
by our troops.
This morning we have advanced our
line north of Bailleul, on a front Of
a mile. capturing some fifty prison
the enemy during the afternoon was
crushed by our artillery.
Aerial (hight).-On August % our
machines co-operated closely throughout
the day with our troops in the battle
area, keeping in touch with their ad-
Observation for artillery IRE by bal
looms and airplanes was carried on as
usual.
Our low flying squadrons constantly
attacked with machine gun fire and
bsimhs the German infantry, wagons and
guns. throwing them to-confusfon. Our
sQuadrons, cooperating with tanks, Ell
lenced enemy batteries which Were I'm
peding our advance.
"A boMaipE: Esias en. Abe .Gsengan air
was carried out bss Scme Of our scouts
and escorting machines. Several OF
the hangers were set on fire. by direct
hits. and machine gun fire was opened
from avery low height on troops and
transport nearby. An enemy machine
which attacked our raiders was shot
down. All our machines engaged in
the raid returned safely.
A total Of twenty-six tons of bombs
was dropped by our airmen during the
day. Twelve enemy machines were
destroyed by US in air fighting and
two more were brought down by fire
from the ground. Three other hostile
machines were driven down out OF
control. Four German balloons were
shot down in flames. Four Of our ma :
chimes are missing.
At night. though the weather was
cloudy. nearly five tons of bombs
were dropped by US without the loss
Of any machines.
During the last fortnight s2s Ger
man airplanes have been brought
down by our airmen on the western
front and 1874 driven down out OF
control The enemy balloons shot
down in the same period amount to
thirty-one. The total weight OF
bombs dropped by US during this
period was 594 tons.
August "a (night).-On the battle
field north of the Somme continuous
fighting has taken place since early
pressing the enemy hard at all points.
the arrival of considerable hostile re-
fnforoements progress has again been
realized on the whole front Of our at
tack. Numbers of prisoners and
quantities of material of every de-
scription have fallen into our hands.
shortly after midnight Australian
troops, attacking along the north bank
of the Somme. captured Bray-sur-
Somme. securing number of prisoners.
Continuing their advance with great
skill and initiative, they carried the
enemy's positions in this neighborhood.
"On their left London and East County
troops made further progress during
the night along the high ground SOUTH
east of Albert, taking several hundred
prisoners. On the right center Of our
attack Welsh troops and battalions from
the northern counties Of England adj
vsnced over the ground of the old
Solnme battlefield Of 1916 about La
Boisselle, Ovillers. Moquet farm, Thiep-
val and Grandcourt. All these strongly
defended localities were captured in the
face of determined hostile resistance.