Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1918 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of (he Country. SHORT PITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. ARE PUSHING TOWARD GHENT Allies Make Excellent Progress in What May Be Foch’s Master StiMce. London, Oct, IS.—A terriffic attack, delivered by picked allied troops in Flanders, has swept the Germans back five miles over a wide front and may cause the collapse of his whole defensive system here. Although official reports were lacking, advices from the front indicated that the allies were close to Lille —in fact, may even now be at the outskirts of that enemy buttress In the north

Among the towns reported captured is Roulers, while it is said that French troops aloue nave taken more than 3,000 prisoners. The allied attack to have been on a front of more than 25 miles, the heaviest onslaught being* delivered at the north end. Roughly, the battle-front extends from the region of Roulers southward to Deual. The offensive, 'launched after the Germans had withdrawn many troops to the Cambria-St. Quentin front and over to the Champaigns, and Argonne, may be one of the most telling of the war. Any pronounced gains here would mean the German evacuation of Bruges, the / submarine base, Ghent and other Belgian cities. Ib the capture of Roulers, It is reported, the allies pressed on and 'have advanced their line eastward to Isgehem and Lendelede, which lies only four miles northwest of 'courtrai, an important German rail head. The Belgians have signaled from east and southeast of Roulers that they have captured Hagebrook, Girsberg and Beverein, and • that 3,000 prisoners thus far (have been counted. The British have taken Denaap, Bolschmolen, Gullewhem, Wolvelghem, and Wervoik and are a thousand yards northwest of Menin.