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KILLED INACTION Jfismes TAKEN BY * PAGE 6 THE OSKALOOSA HERALD. THURSDAY. AUGUST S i»IS to get out of the pocket, there is con- siderable speculation as to whether MAJOR GENERAL BIRKBECK The Official they propose to form a new line in BY the drop back the Aisne TAKEN EM UNABLE Vesle or to or COHANAIUB OTHER THREE IOWA BOYS FISMESj whether they are preparing for a new Reports of Big blow and utilize perhaps some of the first troops withdrawn from the sa- Allied Victory TROOPS TO GETFDOTING lient. TOWNS ABE TAKEN KILLED IN ACTION AMERICAN Still On the Run. AFT London, Aug. 3.—6 l>. m.—German CASUALTY LIST J Washington, D. C., 5. ENEMY STRONGHOLD FALLS ~ TODAY’S NAMES Aug. AT troops are reported to be retiring to- BT ALLIES TODAY General Pershing’s official report PEACE FIGHT. ANT ER A BITTER wards the eastern banks of the Ancre 206 AMERICANS says: The full fruits of victory in river Aveluy westward to between the counter offensive begun Albert, dis- so PUSHED BACK TWO TO THREE according to battle front AMERICAN TROOPS WITHIN SIX gloriously by Franco-American patches received here today MILES; MILES OF FISMES troops on July 18. were reaped to- STILL GOING. British Break Hun Lines. AIL READY FOR VESLE BATTLE SIGOURNEY ROY STIIL ALIVE day when the enemy who met his London, Aug. 3/— British troops second great defeat on the Marne rushing forward north of .the Somme was driven in confusion beyond occupied portions of the German front Americans, British French Now Private S. D. Shauafelt Reported the line of the Vesle. and BURNING TOWNS AS THEY GO lines near Albert, Field Marshal Haig HUN RETREAT BECOMING ROUT Dead Some Days “The enemy in spite of Concentrating for Great Struggle. announced in his official war office Ago is Now List- suffering the losses, Also Preparing. Al- statement from the British front to- ed on Wounded. Pershing Re- severest has proved in- Germans capable of stemming the on- Temporarily Boche Generals are Using Every day. Tanks and Cavalry on the Heels of ports 12,000 Casualties though Apparently "During the night our patrols push- slaught of our troops fighting for Means at Their Command to the Fleeing Boches. Germans liberty side by Army on the ed forward towards the Albert sector Washington, Aug. 3.—The following side with French, With the American Get Out of the Inferno of are Destroying What They British and Italian Front, Aug. s.—The town and occupied portions of the enemy lowans were mentioned in General veterans. ..In Aisne-Marne Gun Fire in Pocket. front lines the statement said. Can in Their Retreat. the course of operations 8,400 pris- of Fismes was taken late Sunday aft- Pershing’s overseas casualty list as is- “A raid attempted the enemy oners and 133 guns have been by the American troops, sup- by sued by the war department today ernoon (By Lowell Mellett.) yesterday morning in the neighbor- (By Fred S. Ferguson.) captured by our alone. ported I which carried two hundred and six men by the French. With the French Armies in the Field hood of Feuchy was repulsed with With the American Armies in names. THE FRENCH REPORT The French are across the Vesle at Aug. 3.—French troops now hold the heavy losses. France, 7:10 A. M., Aug. 3.—The Private D. E. Cline, Fortington, la. Paris, Aug. s.—The text of the several points to the eastward and ¦wrecked city of Soissons. “Hostile artillery has been active American troops continue to advance Private T. H. Irvin, Gaiva, la. official communique says: “Dur- the line has been extended northwest Genera! Mangin's poilus swept down in different points between Bethune all along the center of the Soissons- L. S. Ripley, Lohrville, lowa. ing the day we reached the Vesle of the Rheims to La Neuvillette. The the slopes of Montague De Paris last and Bailleux.” Rheims salient. Cohan and other S. of Ireton, lowa, to the east of Fismes. 1 >} ene- Germans resisting sharply front drovp of towns and villages in that region are L. Tweedy, was are night and the Germans out Eight American Divisions. my’s rear guards now in our hands. reported severely wounded. opposed spirited Muiron to Champigny. the place. They also resisted the en- By Carl D. Grost, Washington, Aug. especially Fleeing Huns Destroy Property. Sigourney boy Alive. resistence, between Mu- after a heavy emy’s attempt to hold the hills on the 3.—-Eight divisions of American izon Fismes was taken Heavy artillery fire is Private S. D. Shanafelt of Sigourney and Champigny. Our light in the mid other side. troops are now engaged in the great destructive artillery light that began combing the roads over which the lowa, a member of the Marines pre- elements succeeded in taking a The attacks on the city followed a Western front offensive. The Thirty- die of the afternoon. A few Americans Germans are retiring. The Boches viously listed aniorfg the casualties as footing on the north bank of the Saturday afternoon bombardment which after the day's second is the last to enter the struggle Miij.>Jen. Sir William Henry Blrk* river entered the town continue to blow up ammunition reported dea’d, is now reported wound- at several places. there all night. They fighting permitted the French forces General March revealed today in his beck, director of remounts of the Brit- and remained dumps and burn material as they re- ed in action. “Fismes is in posession. Sunday. to oA-upy the place firmly. conference with the correspondents. ish army, has served in many battles our were driven out early treat. “Northwest of Rheims we have Declaring that the object of our and campaigns and has many medals 12,000 American Casualties. gas shells and Soissons Only an Incident. won ground up The Germans threw forces is still to trap the enemy arm- Cohan Beyond Coulonges. and mentions to his He In nn to the village of of credit. Washington, August 3. —General Per sharpnel into the southern part The capture of Soissons however ies, General March presented confi - on work and La Neuvillette, which the enemy Cohan is six miles east and slightly authority, cavalry prac- shing has estimated that the town making it inadvisable for ¦was only an incident in the advance, dential reports showing the successes tice. America’s is defending with great energy. north of Fere En Tardenois and one drive will the little party to remain longer. stretching along the entire length o' of the Americans and allies advances. casualties in the present “On the left bank of the Avre, mile north of Coulonges, the last vil- reach the twelve thousand mark, com the rapidly straightening salient. Officers of General Muir’s staff just between Castel and Mesnil St. Their reconnaissance has been lage officially announced as captured portions of his armies, observers have members of the Senate military affairs ordered to fall The Boches fell back from one to back from Fere En Tardenois made Georges, the Germans were forc- pleted and they were in that district. witnessed conditions which be- two miles every where while the allied the report, saying that it seemed they committee were told today by General ed to abandon of their back. lieve indicates that the a part po- cavalry points impossible get guns - German Retreat Becoming Rout. Germans are March, Chief of Staff. at several penetrated a to all the and ma sitions. We have occupied Branch- The Germans bad been dropping further. terials which had been abandoned by moving more hastily than they de- mile By John De Gandt, Paris, Aug. 3, Hard to Discover Casualties es and penetrated into Hargicourt. shells the town intermittently the Germans. sire. Huge clouds of smoke and dull about Plessler and Harteemes Woods 10:45 a. m.—The German retreat is We have also advanced our line since When the Americans The ground was explosions have come from St. Gille Washington. Aug. 3.—Replying to a daylight. where the Prussian guards made such so covered with gaining momentum as the allies push to the outskirts of Courtemanche. it was after careful on the Ardre, a short distance south request he expedite the lists of decided to advance a strenuous resistance, are now vir- German corpses that it was impossible forward on the whole forty-five mile that bar- of Fismes, and other places near the on We took prisoners. preparation and under a sweeping tually encircled. to proceed walking ovi American casualties in the fighting without front from west of Soissons to rage gas, the infantry them. j allied front. These told of the de- the Soissons-Rheims salient, General of sharpnel and Rheims. opposition from Muddy Roads No Barrier. struction of big ammunition dumps. Pershing cabled Secretary Baker to- advanced. There was guns, but the Americans A remarkable feature of the fighting Within Six Miles of Fismes. day that the task of assembling 'he machine quickly silenced them. is the manner in which the artillery FIVE SONS KILLED IN WAR The same American troops arc now names of the men was an extremely is being pushed forward with infantry driving towards the Aisno south of difficult one because of the limited Allies Get Ready. valley 000 COLOOEO BOYS in spite of ihe bad state of the roads. the Dorlinn and are now with- means of communication in the battle far Little Gray Haired Canadian Mother j From Rheims to Soissons and The Gentians are under orders to in six miles of the Important enemy PLEDGES areas and owing to the fact that Ameri the ABSOLVED toward Marne, Ameri- Has Made the Supreme GUY back the In instances whole Sacrifice base of Fismes.
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