Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1918 — FRIDAY WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

FRIDAY WAR SUMMARY.

With his army of French and American troops raipdly taking possession of what is left,of the German salient between the Aisne and the Vesle, Marshal Foch has struck a new blow to the northwest, which threat* ens new disaster to the enemyGerman resistance in the angle between the Somme and the Ailette broke late yesterday and the French swept forward and when the latest cables were filed had taken more than thirty towns. The list includes such strongholds as Coucy-Le-Ville, Coucy-le-Chateau, Folembray, the lower Coucy forest and the western slopes of Fort de Conde. The French already have advanced over the old Hindenburg line to a point within less than a mile of Fresnes. This new drive threatens" not only to make the Chemin des Dames more certainly untenable to the Germans, but to flank the St. Gobain forest and open the way to Laon. Along the Aisne the French and Americans have cleared up the southern bank fro mnear Conde to ViellArcy, just south of Pont d’Arcy, and are rapidly mopping up the rest of the big salient. A Universal Service cablegram says that- town after town is falling before the advancing Americans. v v In the north the British are pressing forward slowly but surely, both in Flanders, where the Americans are fighting beside them, and in Artois, where German resistanse along the Canal du Nord is lessening.