Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1918 — WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

WAR SUMMARY.

In point of fresh advances, the sixth day of the allied Picardy drive belonged exclusively to Qen. Humbert’s French third army, pushing northward in the Oise and Matz Valleys toward Noyon. • The French smashed their way forward a . mile and a half northward of Cambronne and lost night w«;re only five miles southwest of Noyon itself. Northwest of Gury they took Plessier des Noye and Belval. German resistance are desperate, but failed to hold up the poilus’ steady progress. Lassigny is virtually surrounded and must fall within the next twelve hours. Further north Roye is in the allied dutch. A German retirement to the Peroane-Ham line appears inevitable. Peronne is reported in flames. On the east bank .»f the Oise the German front already has been gavely affected by the French advance west of the river.. The Teutons have begun a withdrawing movement, notably around Bailly. On the British Picardy front there were no major scale actions. Americans north of the Vesle beat off a series of violent German counter attacks in the region of Fismiettes, which they captured late last week and which the Germans are trying vainly to wrest from them.