Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1918 — DAILY WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

DAILY WAR SUMMARY.

General Mangin’s French tenth army, at last reports early today, still was sweeping ahead between the Oise and the Aisne, after having captured seven villages and 8,000 prisossars yesterday, according to official announcement in Paris. This drive, launched between Soissons and Noyon, where two great German armies join, already has been pressed forward to an average of nearly three miles on a fifteen mile front, and seriously threatens the whole German line from Albert to Rheims. . If carried to full success it may make a German stand on the old Chemin des Dames line impossible. The wedge driven between the two German armies is approximately four miles deeper than it was yesterday at the point of greatest penetration. The consequences for Ludendorff may well be serious. They are already being felt, dispatches say, on the Franco-American line along the Veele. Meanwhile, in Flanders the British are steadily pushing back the Lys salient and have taken three more villages in their advance.. The Germans are said to be pulling back their artillery and making all preparations to abandon the salient they won at great expense last spring. From Rome comes revived reports that the Austrians will soon launch an offensive on the Trentino front. Gen. Diax, commanding the Italian armies, has returned to his headquarters after a series of conferences with Premier Orlando in Rome.