Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1917 — Smashing Offensive Continues Against the German Lines. [ARTICLE]

Smashing Offensive Continues Against the German Lines.

London, April 19.—Reuters Amsterdam correspondent says that according to a Brussels dispatch General von Hissing, German governor genin Gelginm, died Wednesday evng. The great offensive of the French army against the Germans from the bend in the line in France from Soissohs eastward into the Champagne continues unabated. Numerous new points of vantage have been taken, prisoners and guns captured, and violent counter attacks put down with heavy casualties. Ip three days of fighting more than 17,000 unwounded prisoners have fallen into the hands of the French, together with seventyfive cannon.