Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1918 — TUESDAY WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

TUESDAY WAR SUMMARY.

The situation on the Lorraine front has been quiet since the American push which wiped out the St. Mihiel salient. Only minor infantry activity has marked the last twelve hours. The Germans are reported te be working feverishly perfecting the organization of the Lorraine sector of the Hindenburg line. The Teuton long range guns are shelling the American back area*. American bombing machines were reported early today to be raiding Bayonville, Frescatti, Metz-Sablon, and the regions around those places. Fires were seen to flare up after our raiders had dropped bombs on MetzSablon. In Macedonia the French and Serbians have struck a sudden successful blow, advancing more than eight miles. They overran the first and second lines of the Bulgarians and their Teuton auxiliaries in the first hours of the drive and took 800 prisoners. A number of important dominating heights, including the formidable Sokol, were wrested from the Bulgars. The French continuing their attaks north of the Aisne captured Vailly, nine miles northwest of Soissons, while between the Aaisne and the Oise they took Mont de Singes from the Germans. Altogether 300 prisoners fell tc the poilus'. The British made local advances in the Ypres and Plogsteert