Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1918 — WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

WAR SUMMARY.

The great battle on the French front is again blazing in all its fury, and both in Picardy and Flanders the Germans are being driven back by the allied armies. The outskirts of both Roye and Lassigny have been entered by Marshal Foch’s troops, while to the south Mangin, hero of Soissons, has driven a two-mile wedge into a ninemile front between the Oise and the Aisne, which spells fresh peril for Gen. Hans von Boehm, the Kaiser’s “retreat specialist.*’ Four towns and hundreds of prisoners have already fallen to Gen. Mangin.. His drive, if pressed forward, will seriously upset the whole German line form Flanders to the Argonne, while the fall of Roye and Lassigny, farther north, which appear certain to be. announced within a few hours, may necessitate a retreat all the way back to the old Hindenburg lineIn Flanders, the British continue ;to press forward on a six-mile front at the apex of the Lys salient, and have captured Merville, reaching the Paradis-Les Puresbucques highway Merville is the keystone of the Ger- . man Flanders salient, and Haig’s victory here srci. .s almo.t certain t-> have far-reaching effects. Little out tide of r utine activity is reported fro mthe sectors held by the American troops. Germans taken prisoner, however, have revealed what is alleged to be a German plan to launch a surprise offensive against the Americans as soon as they are able to mass sufficient men and material. The Americans, it is stated, are prepared to give the Germans a warm reception.