The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-08-20
GERMANS HOLDING VITAL SECTOR HAVE
RETIRED BETWEEN AISNE AND 0SE RIVERS:
HOLD ON ROY F WEAKENED BY ALLIED ADVANCE
In Old Picardy Battlefield the Teutons have been
Launching Fruitless Counter Attacks. Lys
Salient is Rapidly Being Flattened Out BY
Retirement.
(By Associated Press)
. GAIN TWO MILES,

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London Aug. 20-The French army attacked front Of
ten miles between the Disc and Asne and reached depth of
the river Asne possible that retirement will follow
hundred have been captured attack north of
Beuragnes according advces It reported that
FOUR MILE ADVANCE.
London Aug 2oAccodng to latest advce reaching Lon
the fo1t nave made & g4od I @ fifteen
Saturday ''' '''" '''' '''' '''''
between the Ane and Disc river hurled back 1ome
front this morning by the French is stated that the French
r SGsy e ade nor
SCISSORS Sunday night said to endanger the whole German
ably followed by German retirement from scissors Chem
ns des Zames An advance Of two miles in this sector would
place the Germans both along the sne and at
local SUCCESSES
Unofficial dispatches also state local have been
achieved by French northwad we'll past
Roy The line as traced in dispatches seems be close
the town of Lasgny for which the French have been fighting
~ s'' '"'' "''N 'IHi Hold WEAKENED.
The Germans hold Roye also to be weakened by
would appear Roye virtually enveoped three sides
village Of yassens which is on the eastward bank small
which flows into the oss ri % F,sGoS town to
GniG t55sSH ~
ing repeated attacks against the British in the vicinity
Chilly which north of Roye These assaults were repued by
The old Lys salient rapidly being aened out by the Ger
from the % westerly o hed by
shows that the line from Mere the north to the
vicinity Of Eocon the south leaving large triangle OF aban
doned territory in the direction of st. Vincent which has been
~~N''~' GERMANS REPULsED.5
London Aug 2oFour German attacks against the allied
positions at Chilly repulsed Attacks SIX miles norm OF
Roye have advanced their lines in the neghborhood of Vex
Berqun and Outtesween in the Lys salient The official war
statement says that IN 1fS s1SSSIS E1Pf P& S$RTre
London Aug 2oIt is believed in Cologne that the Ger
weaker the west front than the Allies believe they
according to dispatch to London Mail from its Hague cor
respondent He gives this resume .
All leaves from the front have been reudced one half Men
are sent to the front from hospitals before they fit for action
Letters from the front home destroyed Deserers are beng
treated severely Wounded horses being driven back TO
the front with bandages still place. The Germans are
RUSsAS REIGN OF TERROR.
London Aug 2oHundreds Of passengers were killed ana
Petrograd This conveyed dispatch from the CITY,
The dispatch that after the city had been without tood
for two days. the wokmen marched up and down he see
"Down with the Germans down with the Kremlnn ..,.
Marshal law has been invoked in Petrograd and ne Date
between the Leetish guards and rioters continues
TO STRAIGHTEN LINES.
Paris Aug 2oApart from the practical results resi- ooaea g
the allied attacks between the Somm and the Asne in last two
days modsty called local operations IN the
war have the effect of keeping the enemy
the alert and preventing him from carrying out a
The attacks have made impossible for General L Lude S
do group his troops In parts has been necessary or m
~ '"'' ''' IMPORTANT ADVANCE T.,
London Aug 20The attack OF the Freneh yeseraay og
the advance small it regarded as important as 1t
the French line further down the slope Lassgn
Mass The French also moved up the valley OF the oe he line
being between and miles from Noyon
j, |. WHITNEY, SHOCK TROOP
LEADER, ISSUES APPEAL FOR