Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1918 — LATE WAR BULLETINS. [ARTICLE]

LATE WAR BULLETINS.

Paris, Oct. 12.—-An official communique announces that the Germans have been compelled to abandon their positions on a sixty kilometer (thirty-seven miles) front north of the Suippe and the Arnes. Dispatches from the Champagne front say that General Gouraud is using cavalry in pursuit of the enemy. To the east the French and Americans gained seven miles at some points yesterday. The French have advanced to the Retourne over the most of its length and are within two and a half miles of Vouzieres. 'Vouzieres, Guise and other villages south of Laon are burning. It is possible that escape of the Germans in the Laon pocket may be cut off. With the American First Army, Oct. 12.—The Germans now have only five fully rested divisions on the western front to oppose the allied advance. These are not all first-class troops, however. This illustrates the seriousness of the enemy’s position as regards man power. American Transport Sunk. A British Port, Oct. 11.—A large number of American troops have been lost as the result of the sinking of the transport Otranto in the North channel between the Scottish and Irish coasts in a collision with the steamer Kashmir. The Otranto after the collision was dashed to pieces on the rocks off the south Scottish coast with a prpfiable loss of 372 American soldJrgrs. Three hundred and one mien were taken to Belfast by the British destroyer Mounsey, the only vessel which made an attempt at rescue in the terrific gale. London, Oct. 11.—According to the latest estimate 480 persons perished when the passenger liner Leinster was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. The vessel carried 687 passengers and had a crew of about seventy men. Of the 150 wompn and children aboard the sheamship Leinster when < she was destroyed only fifteen have been accounted for. Severtd of these have died since they were brought to port.