St Johns Daily Star_BT (Newspaper) - August 29, 1918, St Johns, Newfoundland per Annum w CHAULNES HAVE FALLEN FORCES CONTINUE THEIR VICTORIOUS ADVANCE STRENUOUS THE GERMANS FEARS AN UPRISING PUSHING THEM co The Towns of in Oui FEENCH Field Mar id are in the outskirts of but they are not actual y in the town depth of the British advance today represents a distance of about three Wood Ji tie French Army in By the behind the German lines on the Aisne and has increased gen since the French successes around Roye and on the plateau north of In the region east of Roye the Germans seem to be pre paring for an eventual The French pushed ori today and the edge of after taking wood by assault On the sooth they reached two southeast of A the despatch to The Weser 2eitung of Bremen from enna reports that something like a gen eral mobilization is proceeding in the Polish Czech and South Slav districts and expresses the fear that hostilities may commence shortly with 1 of the enten k te sniles ADVANCE FOUR MILES Fighting East of Reach Outskirts of Harcourt forces fighting east of Arras have reached j i the outskirts of Remy and Notre of the Ar i according to the j official statement issued by the war i office The British line in the Flanders bat He area lias been advanced on a front of four miles astride the Neuf rubber same Tires x peel amount of san the your if ROLLING UP THE BOCHE Rages i With the British army in the Having been still further extended by at north of the the battle today was raging SS along a field almost fortyfive miles longi and the British with renewed vigor were rolling up the Boches them apti creeping constantly S MURDERER IS CAPTURED BRITISH TAKE I is the Lys salient in both ir lie allies are forcing the Germans back toward the shown bv the HAS ASSUMED CONTROL OF MILITARY FORCES Man Who Sank the Lusi tania Captured by French Patrol Boats and Brought to WAS ON UBOAT IN MEDITERRANEAN Schweiger man who sank the has been captured by a French pa boat in the ac cording to Le A large sub of which he was second in had just torpedoed a Brit i ish steamer between Malta and Sicily iThe German was waiting to see th vessel sink when the French boats emerged from the fog and sanl the Of the crew of one officer and four men were res cued by While being taken to Toulon th officer appeared ill at j he thought no one was looking h i to throw some papers but a sailor seized his He re fused to answer but an ex I animation of his papers I Le journal asks if the man wh committed the most the mos i barbarous and most cowardly act i war merely t be sent to a prison Red Guards Witi Victory Forced j Retire Before Raking 28 Aggregate of Prisoners Captured by tha in Four Days of Hard AMERICANS AND GERMANS IN BITTER FIGHT AT Entire Russian Military Forces in East Siberia Have Gone Over to the Anti Bolsheviki 28 By the I the Germans have lost heavily in r Frenzied counterattacks by a foe killed or made and who realises that the vitals of his de dition the allied troops again h fense are being eaten have failed captured numerous mad to hold back the British and French guns and war who are hard after the Ger Large Number of clans on seventyfive miles bat from th north of Arras to the region of All along the The prisoners taken by the Britis from last Monday i the region ot All along me the present week aggregate iront the German line has given way In the fighting on Tuesday aroun bef the pressure the British ard west of the Frenc troops at points where ihe secured 1100 The Can falling back of the enemy or troops are fighting m if L Sensee ture and roads running fashion between one of 01lowna waids adds to nis already precarious onthe standpoint Bap sir Numerous villages and ham much is sti h lets have fallen into the hands the British and French in the ation of the and scarcely any but the ar around llat where along the battlefront have the Germans beon able to do more than e of tne west ly tj now s 3 fu ai he the Secure tbe Required Assorted I of Attempt to Place Hor vath at Head of Anti Bolshevik Government Has ALLIED NATIONS OBJECTED TO HIM Via chief of the Russian forces in Siberia and acting on be half of General the anti Bolshevik by a coup detat has assumed control of all the Rus sian military forces in the far east The Russian volunteers harve gone over to General Horvath in a The Siberian government b npn and has unable to or any opposition to the The consular officials are holding meetings to discuss the There has been no blood General as announced ia recent went to stok and prepared to execute a coup detat designed to place his chief General at the head of the government in Siberia and Ae Rus sian military force i die far The at was iato and was Je ratable to deal with tbe ffe Representatives of according to todays acted very with recok the coup and to be an CHAULNES CAPTURED recent retirement of General Kaimin Cossacks in the Ussuri River dis the Bolsheviki Red passed a disguised as peasants and travelling in farm wagons to the I I 1 1 FRENCH CAVALRY ENTERS NESLE Retreat of die is Quickened en of The Line i With the French Army in the French cavalry this morning entered French infantry occupied the f Co a half Chaulnes has been occupied by French according to an official statement issued today by the war be C Battle me m tne mo i meit that is being employed iu uu mon delay the when they knock for admission to the jerman Rearguard Rearguard in which British merable machine guns are also across fa upper end of the a are serving merely to keep the allied Hindenburg and if their prog advance slowed down as far as L k while the main German bodies make their way eastward m the re treat toward new In the region around Arras the British now are well astride the roads continues they will be able operate to the east of the line unscarred on which a and can be brought into fray with good Airmen Are Behind the lines Smash Hindenburg Line lured Dives and pushing to the reached the outskirts of Noy retreat of the Germans was I CzechoSlovaks were again k I forced to retire a considerable dis k There were many 11 The Japanese and American troops k at the time not m a position J I support the The Red Guards made an demonstration against the railroad line between and They evidently in tended to interrupt communication between and The second contingent of Ameri rarra wagons to tne r ti leading to and and me imu and rear of the they and British airmen are troops and raked tne i have pressed forward until they are Germans in but at trus wo wrth field guns from a j by Between the Somme and the Oise of the enemy who are fig the French have broken the back hard in an endeavor to make bone of the German resistance nt cure lie retreat movement of tn capturing this pivotal position i foot to an invasion eastward of the plains In Vesle The troops delivered another attack ihe course of about five even can has been ly the road them into the the line CANADIANS OUTFLANK ROAD Penetrate Deeply into German Lines And Cap ture Number of Villages BATTALIONS ALSO MAKE ADVANCE am operating astride ie Scarpe again r and that the alhed nations no not tbe wishes the OB the right tte Ltd General Horrath it a repre of the old schools of ian been anap of ibe He been or many years in the far where has been manager of the Soon after of the iar he joined nas base at the head of the The base has excellent storage and rail way and quarters for the arriving The commander of has organized a labor bat talion of 500 array thus relieving the CzechoSlovaks of feed ing The men are working with apparent BERLIN OFFICIAL REPORT front the of and advancing therr lines Germans are in a rather north and south of the town over a in the town of front of about 12 and a half miles i Tlie Americans star to a depth of more than two and a the trouble a and miles at certain Germans reciprocated with nn attr North of Soissons the al on At last recount though the Germans are fighting them Americans had the upper nand have advanced slightly both line in the outflanking movement both In East Siberia the entire against the Chemin des Dames region military forces have gone over to and the Noyon Everywhere support of the louth of this between and and to the Eng lish and m heavy by m aod Scottish Ae and Fontaine fes On die cf the spur south o the and taking several North of the Scarpe carried and an EngGA battal ions gamed possession of en JiM die other fine were on in duar to advance our stormed the v3 of and e the troops gained inthe face of strong We reacHed the western outskirts of and Have driven the enemy from the Prussian guards in area were Says Attacks of Allies Around Ba Were Beaten via German official communication issued this evening the repulse of allied attacks on various sectors of the The tion of enemy to break through North of and north of the Somme broke down with heavy Between the Somme and the there have been before oor new French attacks north of were sanguinarily re Sorth of the our on to en made with tasks and strong infantry forces and withdrew to tbe heights of Monchy le There the fire of our infantry and standing ready to repel the received the and after broer fight the adversary pressed forward over and THE WAR SITUATION By J news we are getting from the front appears to be from twenty four to fortyeight hours How ever it is new news to and latter ly it good news the gradual extension of the area attack north and from Picardy battle which forms centre of the present to this aspect of the drive in th on the fifteenth it it a good The British have broken out that the development ly through the strategy fiace Sine between eight miles west of and eight miles southeast of which a front of about ten Then position in that sector places them the national highways and railways between Arras and nd between Arras and The indications are that the Brit will extend their attack north ward toward Lens for the of getting on the German lines of com between that stronghold and now onry five miles south west of the and a successful thrust against the Ger man line five miles north pres ent position would place them astride of the railway in the vi of about miles southwest of As may be ob the plan of campaign been irve m miles of the German defence he has accomplish and the break through at Chau and the keystone positions the present battle HI result in retreat of the enemy the whole of the front from north the probably from the and may extend as The Aive along the cat of southeast of ABi brings their advance posts within i miles of Peronne on the t if the these I ot points the British line bends v erly about a mile along the of jhe reaching almost Prize and French and Roye clear the Continued
