Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1918 — WEDNESDAY WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

WEDNESDAY WAR SUMMARY.

Driving the Germans before them, the British are continuing to thrust their .wedge between Douai and Cambrai deeper into the German lines. The armies of Field Marshal Haig today are reported to have advanced from one to four miles on the thirtymile front extending from Arras to Peronne. Cambrai appears to be the of the drive and at last reports the British were within six miles of the city and still going. ■ Late yesterday the German resistance slackened notably and the Germans seemed to be devoting all their energies to the one business of retreat, abandoning arms, ammunition, and stores of all kinds as they fled. The British are close on their heels with artillery well forward. Field Marshal Haig’s night report tells of artillery firing in the open on mi sses of Germans struggling to get away. Under such circumstances the enemy losses must necessarily be exceedingly heavy. Meanwhile the British and Americans north of the big hole in the second Hindenburg line and the French and Americans south of the gap continue to advance. There are indications that the Germans are making final preparations to get out of their positions along the Vesle. In Washington apd other allied capitals there are hints that the First American army soon will be thrown into action on an unnamed section of the front. It is understood that the Americans fighting with the British in Flanders and with the French under I Gen. Mangin are not parts of Gen. Pershing’s first field army.