The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-09-05
NO RETREAT RULE
IS MAINTAINED
AMERICANS PUSH ON IN BEL
GUM MAKING NEW GAINS.
120,3O2 PRISONERS TO DATE
British Troops Have Captured lie
Transloy Near 6apaume and
Have Taken the Whole ST.
Pierre Vast Woods.

| TlGTTe WAIST WOODS
With the British Army in Flanders,
SeEts 3. - In their first fighting in
Belgium the Americans have cap
tured Voormeezle and several strong
German positions in that immediate
vicinity. On their entrance into
| VoormeeZle the invaders found that
. all that remained OF the town were
piles of debris for the shell fire had
been so intense that hardly one brick
was left standing upon another.
AS the Americans advanced, the
German rear guards opened up with
their machine guns, but these were
quickly silented.
Crush German Counter Attacks.
Elsewhere in the same locality the
Americans also advanced thu line.
Counter attacks by the Germans re-
suited in their gaining little more
than slight foothold, which in ev-
cry case was quickly loosened by
British and American re.attacks. In
most places the Germans did not
even get a foothold for the advanc-
ing formations were met with hurri-
canes of fire, under which they melt.
ed away
No Retreat Rule Maintained.
London, Sept. 3.-The Americans,
says the correspondent of Reuters,
Limited, at American headquarters
in France, have so far never yielded
ground in France and they kept that
proud record inviolate by the sue
cessful advance on Juvigny after
three days and nights of the bitter
est fighting. The correspondent
says the Americans encountered a
stout hearted and extremely skillful
enemy, showing no signs of lowered
morale.
Every foot of the way into Juvigny
had to be contested with machine gun
ners, who fought until none was left
TO fight. The Americans gained
ground, the correspondent adds, the
ives failing to loosen their grip and
not even twelve hours later when the
Germans flooded the valley with gas.
British Win New Positions.
London, Sept. 3.-British troops
yesterday captured lie Transloy,
southeast of Bapaume, and took the
whole of St. Pierre WAIST wood
The Drocourt-Q ueart switch line
was broken in two on a six-mile
front. Many prisoners were cap
tured by the British.
Considerable progress was made
by Field Marshal Haig's forces on
the whole thirty-three mile front be-
tween the River Scarpe and the Riv-
err Somme.
128,3o2 Prisoners To Date.
Paris, Sept. 3.-The allied forces
on the western front have taken a
total of 12S,302 prisoners since July
Is, it was announced in an official
statement today. In the same period
| 2,069 guns, 1874 mine throwers and
1898 machine guns were captured.
Germans Fear Australians.
London, Sept. 3.-The Australians
who captured Mont st. Quentin with
1900 prisoners and thereby made the
fall of Peronne inevitable, accom-
rlished the feat within an hour and
with a loss to themselves of only
twenty-five men, according to the
Daily Mails correspondent at Brit
ish headquarters in France.
The correspondent says that the
better part of three German divisions
crumbled to pieces before one Aus
itralian unit. The Germans appeared
to have felt some sort of nameless
terror similar to that which some
times takes possession of troops fight.
ing against Indians in their native
haunts.
The capture of Peronns accord
ing to the correspondent, should turn
the enemy's present line and hasten
his retreat. He now has in this
southern quarter only one good po-
sition to hold before he reaches the
Hindenburg line from st. Quentin
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