Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-08-02
ALLIES WIN FERE;
j. s. FLAG FLOATS
OVER STRONGHOLD
French tnd American Forces Get
Big Supply Base.
RETREAT OF HUNS NOW R0UT
Yank Fighting Great Factor In the
German Defeat-AIlies Advance
Several Miles Above Marine
and Capture More Towns.

Paris. July 29.-French advance
guards have reached the north DanK
of the Ourcq river and allied troops
have entered Fere7en-TardenolS, the
great German supply base, lying in
the center of the Aisne-Marne salient,
the war office announced. The VII
lagos of Anthenay and Olezy-et-Vio-
laine. living on the east flank south
west of Reims, have been occupied.
In the Champagne a. number or
German attacks were repulsed by the
French.
Old Glory flutters from the city hall
Of Fere-en-Tardenois, side by sloe
with Frances Tri-color. The spinal
column of the German crown princes
army has been ripped wide open. Inc
city that formed the nerve center OF
his half million bottled-up fighting men
was stormed by soldiers of France and
America just as night was setting
down upon the AiSne- Marine battlefield
closing the eleventh day of Foch'S
great counter-offenSive.
Fall Back Several Miles.
With the French Armies on the
Aisne-M Marine Front, July 29.-The re-
treat of the German crown princes
forces along the whole Marine front
has reached more psecipitate phase.
At some places the Germans have
fallen back several miles.
French and American troops are
marrying the retiring forces on the
center, while French and British
troops are hammering at both TANKS.
Cavalry Pursue Foe.
Cavalry and tanks in considerable
numbers have succeeded in getting in
among the retiring Germans, while air.
planes are bombarding their columns
on the march.
The losses of the enemy have been
extremely heavy.
Half Salient Retaken.
French cavalry, supported by in
fantry elements advancing in the
Soissons-Reims salient, has reached
the district south of Villere-sur-Fere,
little more than mile southeast Of
Fere-en-TardenOis, and Sergy, one and
three-fourths miles east of Villers-sur-
Fere.
Southwest of Reims the French cav
altry is advancing swiftly on the Vile
en-Tardenois road.
The allied success has been COM
plete along the whole front Half of
the pocket in which the Germans have
been cornered has beer retaken.
Allies Take Three Towns.
Paris, July 29.-Champviosy, three
and half miles northwest of Dor
MANS and many other towns and vii
lagos have been captured by the
French and Americans in their pur-
suit of the Germans from the north
bank of the Marine toward the Ourcu.
Great quantities of shells were left
behind by the Germans in their hur-
ried withdrawal
The villages of Fresnes and Cour-
mont have been occupied by the
Franco-American troops. Courmont
lies only little more than four miles
southeast of Fere-en-Tardenois.
Joy on British Front.
Germans are reported to be retreating
over a wide front on the German right
side of the Reims-Soissons sector.
They are pursued by allied cavalry.
There is unbounded joy on the whole
British front due to the news of the
fresh Franco-American successes.
The enemy is evacuating many vii.
lagos and destroying bridges and ma
serial.
The British are harassing the enc
my along their front with artillery.
much gas being used. Scattered pris-
oners and machine guns have been
taken in the last "a hours.
Military experts predict an early
by the Germans to the line
of the River Vesle, Strengthening the
line from Reims to Scissors.