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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1918
Page
5
The British assault south of the Scarpe River began from positions near the German lines reached days earlier. A furious battle is under way with high potential, but early reports offer no clear result. Bullecourt Hendecourt and surrounding areas were in British hands as the attack started.
Allied forces press a major offensive across the Somme front with Australian troops seizing Peronne and pushing along the Canal du Nord while British units attack northeast of Entreco u rt. Prisoners and disrupted German positions indicate a mounting allied breach.
From Amsterdam a Berlin dispatch quotes Emperor William on Sedan Day praising the German empire’s unity and resolve. He says no enemy can shake the empire and that Germans will endure sacrifices for peace and victory at front and home.
A bronze statue of President James A. Garfield was unveiled at Long Branch New Jersey on Garfield Day. Daughters Lucretia Garfield and Margaret Stanley Brown of New York, granddaughters of Garfield, presided at the ceremony.
British and Canadian forces press the German line across France as Drocourt-Queant falls and Cambrai nears again. Haig reports heavy losses for the enemy, while Ludendorff reportedly prepares to fall back deeper, with Allied hopes rising for a 1919 decisive phase led by Pershing's 4,000,000 Americans.
British forces break the Drocourt line as enemy resistance stiffens while retreating toward the Canal du Nord. The victory threatens the Hindenburg line on the south and signals German withdrawal from fortifications as Allied advances tighten from Flanders toward Rheims.
British French and American troops push along the Somme and Aisne fronts. Voramezeele and Armentieres advance. Peronne gains. Canal du Nord crossing east of Nesle. French American lines hold Crecy au Mont. Evidence suggests a German withdrawal toward Rheims as the Vesle defenses falter.
French troops pushed farther east of Crecy au Mont and Juvigny and have taken Leuilly and Terny Serny northeast of Soissons, the war office announced tonight. The statement notes continued progress by the forces as of Sept. 2.
Allied forces report progress along the Canal du Nord and east of the Aisne. They state gains on the eastern slopes of Hill 77, capture of Neuilly and Terny-Sorny, and advances north of Crouy while enemy resistance continues. Four enemy planes downed. a captive balloon burned. rail targets hit. large bomb drops on Maine Laon Ham and bivouacs near Villers-Franqueux.
Numerous Austro-Hungarian prisoners continue to be taken by General Mangin's army which is approaching Coucy north of Soissons. The front along the Oise and Aisne rivers is described as very good.
Eleven year old Morris Baker of 83 Leverett Street lies in a relief hospital with a fractured skull and other injuries after stepping from a fruit wagon near 178 Tremont Street. He was knocked down by a taxicab driven by James J. Tully and rushed to hospital in Dudley Field Malone’s touring car.
German official statement says British forces southeast of Arras and north of Peronne gained ground while repulsing enemy attacks on both sides of Bapaume. French renewed assaults between the Oise and the Aisne after strong artillery fighting this afternoon.
London reports from Reuters on the Aisne front describe the capture of Juvigny by American forces after five days of fighting. The 104th German regiment resisted with casualties high, while Americans and French advances secured a significant plateau victory and retained ground in France.
A Sept 2 dispatch notes Germany’s press tone shifting as Allied advances in France and Flanders prompt fearful forecasts. Cologne Gazette cites strengthening southern front forces and readiness for fresh attacks. The New Zurich Gazette hails Foch’s battlefield leadership while Basic National Gazette warns German morale would crumble if underpinned by false beliefs in supremacy.
Foresters meet in Durham on September 3 and 4 under the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests and the State Forestry Commission to discuss forest protection and management.
Paris announces Allied forces on the western front have taken 128,302 prisoners since July 15, including 2,674 officers. In that period they also captured 2,069 guns, 1,734 mine throwers, 13,783 machine guns and much matériel. On the French front 75,900 prisoners and 700 guns were taken since July 18.
The core of the battle sits between the Scarpe River and Bapaume where Germans resist to defend the main line from St. Quentin to Drocourt. London Manchester and Liverpool units engage on the front as Canadians clash to the south against stubborn resistance.
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