Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1918 — SATURDAY WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

SATURDAY WAR SUMMARY.

But little is now left of Germany’s dearly bought gains of this spring in France and Belgium. During the last twenty-four hours the British and French have swept forward east of the Somme, at some points as much as seven miles. Field Marshal Haig reports his troops are now that distance east, of the river at Peronne, apparently driving Straigt at St. Quentin. To the south the French report a seven mile gain yesterday, which has given them Ham and Chauny, both important links in the chain of German defenses, and has brought them up to the old Hindenxirg line on a wide front. Along the Aisne the Americans are still engaged in rolling the Germans back against the river—with eleven of their bridges blown to bits behind them. In Artois the British are still drivng steadily ahead at Caonbrai, and in Flanders the Anglo-Americans, continuing their forward movement, are approaching Armentiers.