Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1917 — TO BE NO HALT DURING WINTER [ARTICLE]

TO BE NO HALT DURING WINTER

No Rost Will 80 AIM 110 Retreating Germans AMERICAN FORCES AT FRONT Russian Naval Forces Stage a Miraculous Escape From Superior German Fleet of Warships. Latest reports from the European war fronts give continued successes to the allied troops who are steadily pressing the enemy backward, and it is said that there will be no halt In the Haig drive during the coming winter. The American expeditionary forces in France, after three months’ intensive training, are in efficient fighting trim and in splendid physical condition. They will soon toe actively engaged with the allied forces at the front. Airships of the allied forces are making great Inroads in the German and Austrian aircraft, and scores of the latter have been brought to the ground within the past few diays. Good 'news comes from the northern part of the Gulf of Riga, where it was thought Russian naval units had been bottled up in Moon sound after an engagement with German warships In and about the sound last week. The Russian warships made their escape without losses and are now In a position to protect the ' northern entrance to the sound. Military forces In the Moon sound region were moved successfully by the Russians, who also rescued their transports and smaller craft, after destroying all positions of imilifcary value to the enemy.