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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1918
Page
7
London dispatch reports British forces near Bapaume, advancing toward Contalmaison after seizing Thiepval positions and gaining the north Ancre sector. Analysts credit maneuver warfare, continued pressure, and a disruptive German retreat along the Hindenburg line, leaving German defense unsettled.
Pierre Cellier 28 a corporal in the Trench tank corps commanded a tank with 15 Americans during the Marne fighting. After a shell disabled the tank he led foot advance to trap a cave ambush. He held guard as 700 Germans surrendered one by one and two field pieces were captured.
The report details French forces near the Divette east of Memont pressing past German trenches held since 1024 17 fronts. French units endure shelling while supplying frontline troops by tins of meat. Advancing across old fortifications, grenades and bayonets break German positions amid stubborn counterattacks. A notable episode recounts a German corporal guiding his men to a new front before being killed. By Aug 1 the French reach Belval and Lassigny, capturing territory after fierce hand to hand fighting with gas shells used by the enemy.
Paris reports Roye a key German base on the Picardy front has fallen to French forces. General Debeny’s troops push toward St March southwest of Roye after repulsing counterattacks, taking about 1100 prisoners including two battalion commanders.
With the French Third Army fighting in marshes along the Avre they captured Fresnoy and St Mard villages north and south of Roye, taking 600 prisoners and many machine guns. Roye is now surrounded and the Chaulnes-Roye line faces a growing threat as British advances push the Germans back.
Paris reports Lieutenant Sellweiger, the man who sank the Lusitania, captured by a French patrol boat in the Mediterranean. His U boat torpedoed a steamer between Malta and the mainland before being sunk. One officer and four sailors were rescued. the captured officer attempted to discard papers, but they were recovered.
A Toulon dispatch reports a German submarine sunk in the Mediterranean by patrol boats and notes the mate attempted suicide on a rescue ship saying the lost U-boat torpedoed the Laustania. London advices dated August 10 say Lt Schweiger was killed when a U-boat he commanded hit a mine in the North Sea in September 1916.
London announces in the Official Gazette the Military Cross award to Temporary and Honorary Captain Kermit Roosevelt son of Colonel Roosevelt for services in Mesopotamia. He later joined the American force in France after being attached to the British army on special duty.
Washington Aug 874 1 Wwale er Hines Tage of Garden City NL resigns as ambassador to Great Britain. He has served since April 1918 and cites health reasons. President Wilson has accepted the resignation.
American forces assault Bazoches three miles west of Mismes while German attacks press on Ssmette northwest of Mismes. Infantry clashes continue around Bazoches as Americans repel a German bomber near Fismes and defend Missmmette under artillery bombardment.
A London military expert compares Somme results, noting from July 1 to October 3 British forces gained 44 square miles with unknown costs, while August 20 to August 2 yielded 116 square miles with 23 000 casualties, arguing two to three times more ground captured at far lower cost than the first Somme.
British forces extend gains east of Heninel and along the Scarpe river with heavy fighting at Longueval and near Bapaume. New Zealand troops reach north of Bapaume Cambrai road while Germans mount stiff resistance south of Thilloy and in Longueval outskirts. Patrols reach outskirts of Bapaume as street fighting continues.
The Senate approved the work or fight amendment with a 40 to 0 vote, exempting strikers who return to work and file demands with the War Labor Board. An age relaxation proposal up to 60 was rejected 5 to 1, and the measure moves as part of the new draft legislation.
President Wilson left the White House for the State, War and Navy Building to meet Secretary Baker. The talks lasted over thirty minutes and the president, in good spirits, was whistling as he returned to the executive mansion.
London officials said British troops pushed toward Beugnatre two miles north of Banaume and moved through Montauban on the Somme front. The war office statement claimed 21000 prisoners taken, with heavy fighting around Bapaume, Maricourt, and Longueval as Australian and Scottish units advanced toward Dompierre and Plouvain.
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