The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-28

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counter attack The German attack
suffered severely from British artillery
/ and machine gun fire. Devil Wood
was taken by the British and then lost
1t is reported it has been captured
again
Elements of sixteen enemy battat
ions have been found mixed up on a
! front of less than four miles from Ba-
/ paume.
North of the Scarpe considerable
progress has been made and the Brit
ish are reported driving eastward from
Oppy and Gavrelle. which they hold.
German Forces Retreat.
German forces in southern Picardy
are retreating over wide front.
After the capture Of Roye by the
French yesterday the Ferman front
has crumbled. The lines which have
held back the French and British for
the last two weeks are giving away
and today's official reports show the
French on a line less than three miles
west of the Somme river and canal.
Thirty villages have been captured
by the French in the advance which
was started early Tuesday morning.
Chaulnes. the center OF the German
line between Roye and the Somme riv-
er, as it flows west through the bat
tie field, has been captured and many
other vital points have been taken
from the retiring enemy.
British Swing Forward.
While the French have been smash
ing the enemy's front along the Chaul-
nes-Roye line, the British have swung
forward in the sector east of Arras.
North of the Arras-Cambria road.
they have reached the outskirts Of the
villages of Naucourt, Remy and Boiry
Notre Dame, about mile east OF the
Hindenburg line. South Of the Somme
the British have taken Foucaucourt,
while north of the river they have
gained nearly all of Trones wood.
In the Flanders area the British
have advanced their line over a front
of four miles astride the Neuf Ber-
quin road. This is the area from
which the Germa1 have been retreat
ing for the last three weeks.
Marshal Foch. however, is giving
the enemy no rest. There is no let
up in the allied pressure end each
day the active fighting front is be-
ing extended on the north and south.
Each extension is marked by further
gains, adding to the peril Of the en-
emy center, which fights desperately
to prevent the British from breaking
through.
Reach Vis-En-Artols.
On the north, astride the Scarpe,
the British have broken through the
Hindenburg line ma front OF ten
miles or more and continue their
push after an advance Of thre miles
Tuesday They have reached Vis-En-
Artois. in the rear of the Hindenburg
line. and have broken through or al
most reached thereserve line. known
as the Queapt-Procourt switch line.
The British here are advancing on the
main roads to Dousi and Cambria and
before them is terrain untouched by
previous battles Of the war. Gayvelle,
on the main road from Arras to Do
uai, is only eight miles from Douat.
Among the ruins and shell craters OF
the old Somme battlefield about Ba-
paume. the Germans are putting up a
stiff resistance. Bapaume itself Is
now a part Of No Mans Land. but the
Germans are clinging to every foot as
long as possible. North and south OF
Bapaume, the British have made only
slight progress against the enemy de-
Tense Great confusion Is reported be-
hind the German lines on this sector
and the enemy is digging a trench
line to the east of Bapaume.
North and south of the Somme. the
British press onward toward Peronne.
They are approaching Combles after
over-powering the Germans around
Montauban and in the woods of the
neighborhood and are east Of Mari
court. which gives them possession Of
the high ground north of the river.
ncmp'ere. south of the river, and six