Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1918 — WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

WAR SUMMARY.

Further minor withdrawal* of German armies in France today, followed by allied advances, strengthen the theory that the enemy is planning to execute a widespread retreat on the western front, which will probably take him back as far as the Hindenburg line. The withdrawals thus far since the slackening of the allies* drive *in Picardy have been on small sectors of the front, but have resulted in straightening and lengthening the allied line. During the last twenty-sour 1 hours the French, British and Americans have recorded good gains in no less than four sectors, the British taking two towns. The movement is again reported in Flanders as well a* in Picardy. In the Vesle sector there are fresh signs that the Germans are planning an early withdrawal behind the Aisne. Their artillery fire has noticeably diminished, it being evident that they have no large cannon in action south of- the Aisne. Important development* are reported in Russia, indicating the early re-establishment of the eastern front. The British have occupied Baku, on the Caspian Sea, while the force* landed on the arctic are moving rapidly southward. The Archangel army already ha* advanced more than 100 mile*, driving the Bolshevik Red Guards before it, and a new force has been landed on the Onaga Bay coast to cut off the retreating Russian*. Further east an allied force ha* advanced more than 200 mile* into the interior. Rumor* of the overthrow of the Bolshevik regime in Moscow persist.