Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1918 — WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

WAR SUMMARY.

Fresh advances by the allies, making still smaller the Soissons-Rhesms pocket in which thousands of the German Crown Prince's best troops are struggling to escape, are reported from Pans today. On the west, die French and Americans have drawn still closer, to Fere-en-Tardenois, capturing a number of villages and bringing them .within a little more than five miles of their goal. On the east, the troops of four nations France, England, America and Italy, have struck west from Rheims, have cleared all of the Rheims forest and now stand within four miles of Ville-enTardenois. Several more villages have been recaptured and at some places., the allied line has been advanced more than two miles. - The day's advances have materially increased the effectiveness of the allied artillery fire harassing the Germans in retreat through "the neck of the bottle," and have equally materially increased the difficulty of escape which confronts the enemy. Immediately south of Soissons heavy fighting still is in progress, with the Germans striving desperately to hold back the French-American line any material advance of which at that vital point would turn the enemy disaster into a debacle. There the Americans have covered themselves with glory, beating back counter attack after counter attack and capturing in the last five days nearly 4,000 men. Northeast from Chateau Thierry a new advance has been made by the French and Americans, cavalry being used in pursuit of the enemy. An innovation is the use by the allies of mounted grenadiers. The (kin for the day in this sector averages two miles and menaces Fere-en-Tardenois from the south as well as the west.