Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1918 — WEDNESDAY WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

WEDNESDAY WAR SUMMARY.

A fresh gain of at least a mile has been registered in the last twelve hours iby the right wing of the American army in Lorraine. Pershing’s combat patrols at accounts from the front were approaching Vandieres, only little more than a mile from the German border and halfway between Pont-a-Mousson and Pagny-sur-Moselle. Against the American left the Germans have been reaching in the last twenty-spur hours, but with no great vigor and without the slightest success.

A further German retreat in the valley of the Moselle is indicated by burning towns. For the present Pershing is marking time, but all dispatches from the front and the comments of military critics hint at important developments before many days are passed. Meanwhile in point of actual fighting the Macedonian front holds the center of the war stage. Up to last evening the Serbians and French had captured 4,000 prisoners and thirty guns, overrunning part of the Bulgarian third lines and crossing the Gradesnitza. Earlier in the day a Serbian official statement had reported a FrancoSerbian advance of five miles on a twenty-mile front. Many important strategic heights, formidably defended, were captured by the allies, and the advance continpes. The allied Macedonian offensive is likely to upset the, German plan to bring a strohg force of Bulgarian troops to the western front, Where Germanys own man-power has been terrifically cut up by the years campaign, and where Austro-Hungarian troops fight only when forced by the fear of penalty for disobedience with deaths The British made a substantial advance toward St. Quentin. They pushed their lines forward in the neighborhood of Holnon village, which lies only two and a half miles northwest "of the Hindenburg bulwark. Local was made by Haig’s troops’in Flanders.