Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1918 — WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

WAR SUMMARY.

While Von Hindenburg is waiting, the allies are steadily improving their positions on the Picardy and Flanders fronts. London announces today that in their success on the Somme the Australian troops have advanced nearly a mile on a two-mile front, taking an important ridge overlooking the Somme and Ancre valleys and have captured 200 prisoners.' To the south, American troops have withstood a violent gas shell bombardment and, Berlin claims, have lost a few prisoners in fighting between the lines. It .became known today also that Gen. Foch has intrusted the principal defense of the ArVas sector to Canadian troops. There are no new developments m Italy, but dispatches indicate that the Austrian blow on that front will not long be delayed.