The Colorado statesman., 1918-08-24
BEUVRAlGNES AND OTHER VII
LAGEs OCCUPIED AS ALLIES
ADVANCE.
US. MEN BOMB OSTEND
FOES FATE NEAR SOISSoNS Is
SEALED IN NEW OFFENSIVE
BY GEN, MANGlN.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, Aug. 21.-The American
navys air campaign against German
submarine bases in Flanders began
Aug. 10 with the bombing of Ostend.
While details are lacking, it is said
the operations were successful.
Northwest of scissors from the
Aisne to the Oise, north of the Disc
TO the region around Roye; in the Ar
ras sector and northward on the IA
nous Lys salient the Germans every
where have been compelled to fall
back under the pressure of the French
and British troops. In a new offensive
launched by the French general, Man
gin, over front of approximately fif-
teen and half miles,. from Bailly on
the Disc TO the Aisne near Soissons,
the French in bitter fighting have car
ried forward their line TO an average
depth of two and a half miles, and
| in the first phases of the battle had
turned TO French possession numerous
enemy-held villages and farms. In ad
dition, more than 5000 Germans had
Mangin's men are reported still hard
after the enemy, and unofficial ac
counts place the French on various
sectors well in advance of the posi-
tions outlined in the French official
communication.
| Along the Scarpe, east of Arras,
| Field Marshal Haig's forces have kept
up their harassing tactics against the
enemy, who has been compelled TO
fall back eastward along the Scarpe
river. The Germans resisted vigorous
ly, but all to no purpose, and the Brit
ish advanced their lines to the east
of the village of Fampoux. Although
Haig claims only a slight forward
movement here, particular Significance
attaches to it by reason of the fact
that the Germans have been driven
back until they are virtually upon their
old battle line as 1t stood in December
1917.
Northward, the Lys salient again
has been narrowed down by the opera
tions of the British, who, north of Mer-
vile. have taken the villages of Vier-
beck and la Couronne and also
l.
gain represents a forward movement
of about a mile and a half and places
the British astride the road running
southeastward to Estaires. The new
victories of the allies are highly I'M
portant The advance of the French
northwest of scissors, taken in con
junction with the successful maneu-
vers on the Lassigny sector, and
south of Roye, where Beuvraignes has
been captured, seemingly means that
the enemy forces from the Somme TO
the Oise soon must give up their posi-
| tions and retreat eastward. 1t is not
improbable Noyon is well outflanked
on the south and southeast.
There has been little fighting along
the Vesle, where the Americans and
French are intrenched.
With the British Army in France,
Aug. 2O.-British troops, after captur
ing Outtersteene ridge, in front OF the
town of Merris, have beaten off a
vicious counter attack and inflicted
heavy losses on the enemy. More than
500 Germans were captured by the
British
The Germans on three important
sectors of the western battle front
have been compelled to give up posi-
tions of great strategic value under
the onslaughts of the British and
French troops.
With the American Army in Lor-
raine, Aug. 19.-The Americans early
Saturday morning captured the vii.
lage of Frapelle and eradicated a con-
siderable German salient in the allied
lines. Prisoners were taken by the
Americans and the Germans evidently
suffered heavy casualties in killed and
wounded.
Paris.-The French made further
progress Saturday north and south OF
the Avre, having taken 1000 prison
ers and numerous machine guns.
Two Allied Destroyers Sunk by Mines.
London.-Two destroyers struck
mines and sank, according to an an
nouncement made by the admiralty.
Twenty-siX men are missing.
Senator GaIlinger, 81, Is Dead.
Franklin, N Hunted States Sen
ator Jacob II. Gallinger of New Hamp-