The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-08-22
ALLIED ARMIES
WIN MORE GROUND
ON THREE FRONTS
French Reach Outskirts of Las
signy-Take 1900 Huns.
HAIG'S TROOPS IN MELVILLE
Foch's Forces Fight Way Into Railway
Station at Roye-Petan's Men Ad-
vance Two Miles-Over 5000
Prisoners Captured.

Paris, Aug. 2O.-The French troops
north of the Disc river have reached
the western outskirts of Lassigny ac-
cordng to the official communication.
They also have made their way out
of the Thiescourt wood and further
south have captured the village OF
Pimprez on the Noyon-Gompiegne
road. Northwest OF Scissors the vii
lage of Morsain has been captured
and 1900 Germans have been made
prisoner in this region.
Hit Foe on Three Fronts.
London, Aug. 20.-Smashing blows
on three fronts--in Flanders, in Plcar-
dy, and between Ribecourt and Sois-
sons, in the south-have thrown the
Germans back from half mile to
two miles in the last twenty-four
hours, with loss of nearly 1900
prisoners, according to the British and
French war office statements.
One late unofficial report declares
the allies have fought their way to
the railway station at Roye, critical
point in the center of the German
front in Picardy, and are practically
on the outskirts of Lassigny, further
to the south.
British Gain in Flanders.
Up in Flanders British forces on
the Lys salient have advanced on a
front of 10000 yards, entering the
town of Melville and reaching the
road running from Paradis to Les
Puresbecques through Merville, ac-
cording to Field Marshal Haigs com
munication.
Northwest of Chaulnes, south of the
Somme, the Germans, in an attack
over mile front between Herleville
and Lihons, penetrated the British line
at two points, but Immediately after
ward were driven out and the line
restored
Attack on Ten-Mile Front.
Between the Disc and the Aisne
French troops attacked over a front
of nearly ten miles between Garlic
Don't. about four miles east of Ribe-
court and Fontenoy, approximately
six miles west of scissors. They ad-
vanced an average distance of one and
a third miles over the whole front.
The French have occupied the pla-
teau west of Nampcel, about seven
miles northwest of Fontenoy, and the
edge of the rCvine south of Audigni-
court. two miles and half east OF
Nampcoi. Nouvron-Vingre was cap
tured.
Take 100 captives.
Seventeen hundred prisoners, includ-
ing two battalion commanders, were
taken in this operation.
These gains are regarded as i'm
portant from the. viewpoint of future
operations.
The French now hold the ridges
overlooking the Disc valley and large
bodies of German troops stationed
along the little river ore in position
where they are continually menaced
from both the north and south.
Take Village CT lie HameI.
fGeucH uOOpN dlSo EchSL"tVh AH''
the village of lie Hamel on the hills
west of the Disc and northwest of
Ribecourt, according to advices from
the front. an advance of over a mile,
and have occupied Punprey.
Win CarIepont Heights.
With the French Army in France,
Aug. 20-The Tenth French army
took the heights dominating Carlepont
plain, to the south of Noyon. They
also captured the town of Pimprez, in
the valley of the Disc, TO the east of
Ribecourt. The French took prison
ers 2.200 Germans.