Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1918 — WEDNESDAY WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

WEDNESDAY WAR SUMMARY.

Ostend has been flanked and the allies have driven to within ten miles of Bruges, of which city Zeebrugge is the seaport, according to latest dispatches from the Flanders battlefield. Cambrai has been reached and. Mienin and .Thourout, important railroad centers, have been captured, immensely increasing the difficulties in which the Germans still in western Belgium find themselves. The success of the latest allied drive, which already has carried the entente standards forward more than seven miles, makes certain the quick redemption of the Flemish coast, military experts abroad predict. The Germans, it is reported, have the evacuation of the Belgium littoral well under way. Unfavorable weather appears to have slackened the British-American drive north and east of Cambrai, but the French still are driving ahead north of Rheims and the territory south of the great Aisne bend has been practically cleared of the enemy. To the east, General Pershing’s first army has won important new ground between the Argonne and the Meuse, widening .the breach torn in the Kriemhild line

Will Brown, of Hebron, the next state senator from this district, was in Rensselaer today.

Mr. and Mrs. William Woosley, of Walker township, -returned today from Camp Sherman, where they had been to see their son, Charles, who has had a very severe attack of the influenza. When theyjeft Charles was better, but was still very •sick. Mr. Woosley says there has been-1030 deaths at this camp. E. E. Flint left here Tuesday afternoon for his homein Pierpont, S. D., after spending but a day with relatives at Remington. He was accompanied to Rensselaer by Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Bonner and Miss Callie Bonner, of Remington. Mr. Bonner had .been in South Dakota with Mr. Flint and family since last September and returned to his ‘home here with Mr. Flint Monday.