Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1918 — WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

WAR SUMMARY.

A* a result of Gen. Foch’s latest blow to the hopes of the German Crown Prince in the Soissons-Rheims salient, allied observers today report the Germans headed north on one section of the line north of Fere-en-Tardenois—and going as rapidly as possible. “Fleeing precipitately” is the way one correspondent puts it. The allies struck yesterday on a ten-mile front between the Aisne and the Ourcq on the .west side of the salient and when the last dispatches were filed last night had advanced more than two miles and were still going. Four villages on the west side of the salient were captured and one on the east. The advance gives. Gen. Foch a practically straight line from Soissons southeast to the point north of the Marne which the enemy still holds and renders a German retreat as far as the Vesle increasingly probable. Late reports indicate that the hold of the Germans south of that riv*T is becoming more difficult. Both railroad junctions on the Vesle, including the German base at Firmes are under constant bombardment from cannon and airplanes. In the bombardment of Fismes the American artillery is actively engaged. French and British shared the glory of yesterday’s advance but the Americans north of the Oucq were not/idle. Beside advaincing their lines materially, they took the measure of two more crack divisions .of Germans and found them about like the others they had met. It is announced in Paris that the allies have captured 33,400 Germans since July 15. This probably does not include the nearly 1,000 captured yesterday.