Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1918 — TUESDAY WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

TUESDAY WAR SUMMARY.

Fit.u marshal rocn, despite Gera eagerness to stop ana arrange au aimieiuce, continues evfifjfwnei# to harass tne retreating enemy. Despite untavoraoie w« «M<er ana a tc£inan made tittle oeLuer man a sea ot mud oj .wo days neavy rain, the ali,ea armies conCinue vO press iprwara ail aiong tne line oetween tne | xjuiu uOtatt ana tne sector north oi J iuienns, advancing closer and closer! co the ran lines upon wnicn tne tier- j mans depend to maae good tneir escape irom UTanee. . , ! 1 . > me aines uooay stand practiced/ on tne vierniian stop gap tine upon wmcn cue/ uepenu w> cover tneir reu eat to tne xv*.** erp-nrusseils-Moiis-nirson iront. me intermediate ime runa laiioug'n hiccioo, -Denyze, Addenarde, rryurua,. ana varen enemies. !». lev/ nours anouid see this line sinasnod, iiu die aines are repor«eu m ecioo ana Closing an on vinent; nUUeiiaiae IS repox.cd surrounued, lournai nas heem entered ana tne oritisn are omy-two nines from vaiencnnies. rnuugfcneads nave oeen esuaoitsned across me rivers oacamg uiis mie at sevemi points. >. me nntisn ami .imencahs made nve iiiuto profeieas a unrig tne n*st iweinj-rour hoars in their drive on V areiiciennes, ucieakiug a aeries or counter attacas, ,me umy oro\ys tne uremians nave m/weuiptcn to striae an me Moi m roi aays. me reason 'tne oermans are smiting oacK neire is casny apparent, as a oreaa tnrougn vvoma spen gia*t>, disaster. lire ereiiiiaxiS axso attempted to stop die r renen east ui v ouziers, out tne raris war ouice saj# tne counter mows raiiea. nere arso, iuroher progress oy me <r renen win gravely comprom.se tne uerman lines. ; me riiiMeiicans rtgntmg up the Meuse, are lurgiug aneau siowijf, uesp,te the Heaviest resistance: Tins is tne pain* or greatest pern on tne wnoie western tront, so rar as the Crermaus are concerned. 1 Once tne Americans come within range of the lateral ran lines crossing tne Meuse tne doom of a large section of the ttcimm army win oe practically sealed.