Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1918 — WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

WAR SUMMARY.

The third day of the German fifth offensive finds the “Freidenstrum” (storm of peace), as the Kaiser’s soldiers call it, still raging in vain along the major part of the 65-mile line from Vaux to the Argonne. Unofficial dispatches from the front says that the Germans have succeeded at heavy cost in forcing a new passage of the Marne east of Chateau Thierry and that they now control twelve . mile of the southern bank of the stream. This is indirectly confirmed by the French official statement which says that “the battle was particularly desperate on the south bank of the Marne.” It is officially announced that the French and their allies hold firmly the heights dominating the southern bank of the stream. The French and American troops, meanwhile, are striving to the utmost to cut into the German gains. Already four towns have been recaptured and the number of prisoners taken by the French and Americans probably has reached the 3,000 mark. Capture of 13,000 prisoners is claimed by Berlin. The Germans who have forced their way across the blood crimsoned stream still are in grave peril and the Marne may yet prove a second Piave for the Kaiser. Five of the bridges the Germans had thrown across the river were destr oyedby the allies while troops were passing over them. Storms are continuing which may cause a sudden rise in the stream and cut off large bodies of Germans. Around Rheims and to the east the allied line is holding satisfactory. The German advance- has been only slight and nowhere perilous.