The Great War.1479th Day town. The Boche counter attacks here, is still uncertain, but it is known that THE GERMAN RETREAT ON THE FLANKS as well as ;it Miraumont, were carried at. least three thousand have been capt- out by fresh troops, which have been urcd. In comparison with those taken seen rushing toward the front from the yesterday, the prisoners to-day were Comment rear in an effort to relieve General tired, dirty, hungry and thirsty. Military Otto von Below'a harassed Seven¬ Among the prisoners was a brigade teenth army. commander, who when captured was W. L. McPherson .\t Achiet-le-Grand Hie attacks were about to back for artillery By telephone 1918, The Tribune Association.New York in such strength that the British re support. Jus- at that moment i (Copyright, by Tribune) , tired for a shorl distance from the stocky British soldier put his head in IN the pinches German psychology him a month or six weeks of com¬ íiuískirts of the town and contented the window and informed the com¬ works the Germans. parative themsclv« :''¦!' against security. (be- time being with mander that he was a prisoner. The of the German The French advance in the Oise pouring bullets into 'he enemy forces, Later after the commander had inability on, military mind to admit failure and region is still unchecked. General who in their eagerness to win some- reached the prisoners' cage, one by one A Personal face its its un¬ Tenth Message thing, no matter bow small, rushed his officers began to arrive at the sam consequences frankly, Mangin's Army drove forward right into the centre of the target place. The commander stood at the yielding pride of opinion and its pas¬ yesterday as much as six or seven From the Maine miles Woods formed b> the town. gate, and with a smile and a handshake sion for camouflaging defeat play at »some point?. The Oise like Southwest 'ho welcomed Nothing fend, country of Miraumont British, each newcomer. into the hands of a more supple en¬ stretches east from Noyon for some air to char the cobwebs at latest reports, bad the enemy with Tanks Take emy. nine miles and then turns northeast from Stragglers your brain so a fellow can hi» back to the River Ancre. Prom Arra3 to the Somme the Bnt- toward Chauny and La Fère. All Tanks have been To make a virtue of necessity is think. working well to the ish and enemy guns are roaring away the east from fmnt of the British almost one of the highest characteristics of valley Sempigny, on lines every¬ this afternoon on either side of the the outskirts of to the mouth Vacationing away up here where. The battle was under military leadership. Joffre manifest¬ Noyon, in the woods, fough* line, as the British continue to ham¬ of the Ailette River, has been cleared memory turns .i scorching sun, the men fighting over mer the enemy and the ed that quality when he retired be¬ back over the three the enemy stoutly by the French. They have also happy dusty, rhell-churned ground, open resists. British airplanes are sailing low the Marne, evacuating all north¬ years of Par-amount service shirted or with ? cleared the of the upper garments dis¬ h rough perfect summer skies and rain- eastern France, before he turned valley Ailette, to you men eif New Yeirk. carded. She sweat down their which runs northwest into the Oise streaming ing down tons of explosives on the and defeated von Moltke. Luden- One thought comes half-naked bod e. heads of at Querzy. upper¬ the Boches. Fast tanks, dorff has shown no such quiet deci¬ most, because it is the At many place» heaps of German whenever possible, dash through and Coucy-le-Château, on the old Hin¬ biggest mowed sion in the retreats which he has thought in the whole Par dead, down by the British fire, round up odd parties from the rear. denburg line, lies a mile east of the in the conducted out of the Marne and the amount idea STANDARD¬ lay baking sun, along with the The British cannon are drenching Ailette. The French have usual ri"bris which Montdidier salients. crossed IZATION. envers a battlefield. the enemy with steel from the front the Ailette and the Effort» are made penetrated into One always by the burial and from the flanks. The Hun is get¬ He has hesitated to go back as far Low Forest of quality.always the parties to clenr Coucy, which lies one away the dead, but ting it from nil sides and from tho air as it was necessary for him to north of best at low price has within the a go Coucy-le-Château. Here zone of roaring battle it as well. back in to enabled you to weir better ia not often order start again.or even they are only two or three miles possible to accomplish The British losses so far have been shirts for less ami has 'his task. to recuperate. lie stopped at the below money, light. The tank casual¬ Chauny. us to have extraordinarily a useless cost. He helped five busy The total number of prisoners taken ties ha»-e been few also. Ourcq.at went The salient driven north to the Par-amount back to the Vesle and there. Oise is also Shops where stopped being widened to th< eine before. But that didn't him. The old east and only "grew" help southeast toward Anizy-le Worth while, isn't it. be¬ French Cross Ailette Hindenburg line north of the Che¬ Château. Here the French are wel and Rout cause it and saves so min des Dames was his real to the of gives stopping north ¡boissons and on th< much. Think it over. Foe place. He will soon be there. flank and rear of the Crown Princ Better Planning a Counter Attack of still.drop in at the »Similarly, for psychological and Prussia's forces between the Vesl nearest Par-amount PARIS, Aug. 22. French troops have troops arc now the Germans and Shop and watching political rather than military rea¬ the Aisne and between the Aisn for crossed the Ailette River between «¡tiny in their retreat toward the north. and the Chemin des prove yourself what The sons, he tried to stop eastf'iof Mont¬ Dames. Th STANDARDIZATION n"d Champs to the non h of Coucy-lc- capture of Lassigny, an official Ailette flows has communication didier on the Bray-Chaulnes-Roye west along the nortl deine. Cbâteau, according to the "Heure," issued this afternoon side of the Chemin des Dames say?, ntade the German on Le Lassigny line. He camouflagec ridge which adds that .vivires from the position front Piémont as it was again. If he had made a Mangin's operation is therefor state- that the untenable, turned quid French have reached th< from the north and General Humbert's "strategical" he squeezing the Germans out of thei Cordially. Oise (anal between Varennes and retirement, migh army last night took the writ¬ U:.(ler the pressure of the British at (1) and the French at (2) the Germans fell back on the have held the positions to the east of Soissons a Morlincourt, to the east of position, yesterday P/éronne-Nesle-Noyoi Noyon. ing one of the most in two ilajiks of the Picardy front in the direction of the arrows. The British advanced two miles on a or well as out of their to th Upon th" Ailette front the sudden glorious pages six- line, the Péronne-Ham-Noyoi positions French history. mile the French a maximum of seven miles on west of at.ack of the French caused the front, gaining a front of twenty-six miles. Observers line. Now he cannot hold either. I Noyon. Noyon's fall is in retreat It was on this the state¬ of a position, believe that an evacuation of the whole salient between the two fronts attacked must follow. is minent. The German retreat bac division of German reserves which ment that the doubtful whether he can sto] adds, furious German The solid line is battlefront. The diamond lines indicate the new from the Oise is under paramount bad been for a Wednesday's fronts established the short of the old already wa; preparing counterblow. onslaught against Paris on March by Hindenburg front In its retreat it 30 Allied successes. Two hundred guns have bee precipitated a panic was smashed, one French battalion which his armies are now rapidl; already in the ranks of a taken in the drive between second division of re- holding the position for approaching, east of in th Noyo ShirtShops »ctcs thirty-six Noyon, and Inc. which had been intended to sup¬ hours against the of »Soissons. port the tirst desperate assaults Hindenburg Admits neighborhood Coucy-le-Châteai General .">!>th Street 201 W. I25th liôth St. irxj division':; assault, ac¬ of two German regiments. 100,000 Captives Taken Allies and La Fère. Humbert's army mac and 3rd Ave. St.. Harlem 3rd Are. cording to advices to here. by 149th St. and The Trilmne newspapers Le Piémont was taken on Setback progress yesterday between Noyo 3rd Ave. The sound of finally Germany's Ludendorff a Blei*.. heavy cannon firing June !> by the Germans. H has been overstrained wea and Lassigny, clearing up the Divetl Bronx City Hall PI». was heard in Paris Since 18 at 'Least Cost9 in line to at clearly early to¬ recaptured now by the former division AMSTERDAM, Aug. 22. Field July War subject attack many point: Valley, from its mouth to Evricour day. of He had no reserve General Fayolle, which formed pari Marshal Hindenburg, addressing the. strategical lef The French are now in a position 1 to ; P. M. From the heights of Le of the and insufficient local time. Other machines attacked hos¬ troops that defended it or 3d Regiment is PARIS, Aug. 22..The Allied armies have taken more than reserves to hoi from the ar tile and from low Piémont, on the Oise front, the French of Guards, quoted envelope Roye southeast troops transports al¬ March 30. by the "Tages Zeitung," of Berlin, 100,000 prisoner.'-, since July IS, says Marcel Hutin in the "Echo de very long on any sector. The re east, thus compelling its evacuatio titudes with bombs and machine gun serves he had were fire, scattering ammunition wagon» cts saying: Paris." used up in fruil The. British attacked and less counter attacks. yesterds columns on the march. "Let us loeik into (lie future. These attack from the Ancre to the thi "In several cases German guns firing Fall Somme, at our Lassigny's Preceded by Our LONDON, Aug. 22..Referring to the advance which the Allies merely delayed an inevitable Allie tanks were silenced by bombs 5Days position is favorable, al¬ extending Wednesday's operatic and machine gun fire from the' air. A have made the last, month advance. And they liad no militar though.and we may ad¬ during east of Amiens, it is stated in from the Ancre up toward Arrs great deal of work was done also in Of frankly value, because is no activo Bitterest Hand-to-HandFiehtino- mit it.we have to London that this ground has been gained at a smaller cost than any Germany longe Albert was taken and an advance reporting hostile batteries to lately happened our as well as in elate, enel their defence by falling PARIS (NIGHT)..Our con¬ battle front, and this morning fresh Bac, road connecting Douai and Chasseurs, however, stormed the British are now intt troops that was eating back to the old Hindenburg line all hostile counter attacks are apparent Ludendorff cann Chaulnes-Roye-Lassigny-Noyon 1: Cambrai, broken down All our the wood a.nd took it yesterday morn¬ the seventh, with the tinue to advance along the whole reported machines return.'! spread of the along the front. to have developed Mirau- hope to avenge himself (and 1 and the uncertainties of the new safel; ing, thereby sealing the fate of Las- battle northward and over a front. have opposite "One of our night flying machines front o: We reached the Divette mont and Irles. probably still has such a un treat in that sector which is down sigr.y. seventy miles. Whether the hope) just brought in flames on tl .- de of While enem; River from its mouth as far as Kvri- Between 2,000 and he reaches which will finniner. tho line a large enemy the officer commanding th» was prepared or unprepared, Allied ef Foe's Armies Split 3,000 prisoners positions gi night bombing at the court. We have carried our lines to and a few guns were captured by us airplane." Chasseurs, head of his men an< forts have had the same results am with a rifle in his the Drives on the outskirts of in our operations yesterday. hand, led them to th< Germans have been out-generallei By Ailette, Quierzy. day the enemy's fire was directed summit of the and Further progress has been made 29 American Fliers height to the east o outfought. The armies attacke We have occupied St. Aubin, Se¬ by against our old lines. In the even¬ German 'Planes and Say London Critics us to the east and northeast of Mer- Lassigny planted the French flaj and damaged in the last six weeks hav lens, Vaux- ing his reconnoitring detachments there, an been LONDON, Aug. 22..The possession Bagneux, Epagny, Bieuxy, ville. Our troops are on the out¬ Are Shot Successfully Bomb infantry regiment, advancinj those of Generals von Einen tiled their way forward Down by from von by the French of che line of the Ailette, rezis and Pommiers. The material skirts of Neuf Berquin. hesitatingly Plessier-de-Roye, turned th Mudra, von Boehn, von Ebeu, vo toward the valley of the Divettc. Railroads famous Piémont to Hutier and according1 to London military experts, abandoned by the enemy between the Last night we attacked and British in a Enemy's height, the north. von der Marwitz. capt¬ Unnoticed the. we with¬ Day WITH THE FORCES means that Marshal Foch's to ured a hostile north of by enemy, AMERICAN IN Thus The full designs of Marshal Foch ai design Aisno and the Oise is considerable. strong point drew behind the Oise who LONDON, Aug. 22..The official an¬ La?signy not only had fallei drive a Bailleul. troops FRANCE, Aug. 20. Two bombing bot its unknown, but it is bip wedge between General von More than 200 cannon have been nouncement on aerial possession by the French vti generally believe were fighting in the Bois de Carie- operations issued flights were carried out «.< sterday by that this aim is Boehn's army and the forces of the counted since L'O. A strong local counter attack was to-night says: made secure by the of not, as the Germar August pont, consequently the enemy's at¬ American aviators on the towns ol encircling claim, to pierce their German Crown Prince has been suc¬ delivered by the enemy yesterday strong position from which the Gei line, but to stril PARIS (DAY). -During the course tacks, which were prepared here yes- "The thick mist which prevailed dur¬ Longuyon and Audun-le-Roman, north¬ mans a succession of blows to cessfully accomplisbeel. Also the Ger¬ morning against Locrehof Farm, might have delivered counter a' cause tl of tiie night French troops have, main¬ terelay morning by the strongest ing the early morning of August 21 east of Verdun. Bombs were success¬ tacks. enemy irreplaceable mans have been placed in a position of northwest of Dranoutre. It was re¬ losses in men ai tained contact with the enemy, who is artillery fire, did not materialize. prevented our airplanes from fully dropped on railroad tracks and material, and to force him the utmost difficulty both north and pulsed after sharp fighting. Further taking In 'he ar close to ma! retreating between the Matz and the. Between Blerancourt and the Aisne part in the battle at the of the roundhouses. fighting quarters an more or less south of the new French salient. fighting took place during the opening while the disastrous retreats. Oise and esst of the Oise. night the enemy his attacks attack north of the Three American Germans were pressing haï If that be the General Byng's advance north of the in this sector. kept up Ancre. As the reconnoissanct at one point in Marshal's plan he We have occupied Le Piémont, through the day. 4Ie was able to morning advanced the clearer, "planes yesterday encountered and at¬ superior numbers pursuing it with skill and Ancre is regarded here as highly sig¬ sky grew French lieutenant fell unvaryii Thiescourt, Cannectancourt and Ville, GERMAN gain ground only at Blerancourt. An and for the rest of the our tacked three German mac! ines ¡ear while directir success. General Ludcndorff nificant, for this advance has been day airmen hi» men. The men were is beii and have reached the Divette River attack directed against, the rest of were actively Wavrille, to the north of Verdun. On« determine forced to his made with comparative ease over BERLIN (NIGHT)..Partial at¬ engaged. not to allow the expend effectives out We have reached the Oise to the the front and carried in German was body of the lieutenai all tacks occurred near Bailleul anel out the even¬ "Some machines devoted themselves machine forced down with to fall into proportion to his resources on ground which has been the scene of east of from to Bre- the hands of the enem Noyon Sempigny south ing with special force on buch sides to the' work of contact patrol, and re- its tank on fire and the other? were had given sector of the front, after win some of the costliest lighting during of the Lys. There has been They pxnausted all their rifle ai the war. tigny. of the Morsain Ravine broke elown orted the positions of our driven away. The American!; returnee another blow is struck home on vigorous fighting on the Ancre and advancing ' machine gun ammunition anoth Some there are indi¬ Further to the east we have taken with to the to their to their bases and grenade sector. At no experts believe the Somme. heavy losses enemy. troops headquarters from time safely. With place have the Germa cations that the Geimans are and St. nothing else to light with, th preparing Bourguignon Paul-aux-Bois. On the field where the ¡crabbed the picks apparently been strong enough to chc for a withdrawal on a huge scale, per¬ to the north of this fighting oc¬ used for diggi: the attack to the lines of last but Passing village, curred of trenches and entirely. haps winter, we have reached the at yesterday, northwest Ba- Americans drove back the Gcrma there is no definite confirmation of this. Ailette La Along Optimistic observers are convine Basse. paume, and on the front between The heavy losses the enemy has re¬ Quiney Albert and the Vesle LARGEST HABERDASHERY BUSIXESS IN AMERICA cently suffered and the serious short¬ Between the Ailette and the Aisne Somme, we reduced Form Right of to failure attacks on a j age men which he has encountered, there is no in the situation planned render such a retirement not change scale the Of Giant however, except in the region of large by British. Pincers; improbable. The German ranks are so Pommiers, There have been attacks that in where we have taken the western out¬ by the depleted many instances the French between the Avre Allies have met German companies con- skirts of the village. and the By Arthur S. I taining less than seventy men. Aisne before our new positions. Draper Cable Weber Se tSpecial to The Tribun«) Heilbroner BRITISH BERLIN (DAY)..In the Kemmel (Copyright, 11)18, b> The Trlhune Association.New "Elastic" Defence LONDON (NIGHT). In our attack reg'on enemy partial attacks on both York Tribune) between sides of the Locre-Dranoutre Road Announce Their END-OF-THE-SEASON Is Bray-sur-Somme and Albert LONDON, Aug. 22..More than one CLEARANCE German Excuse we have been were repulsed. j completely successful, hundred miles of the German front is OF capturing the whole of our objectives South of Arras the British began REMAINING SMALL Of Recent Retreats now from the GROUPS at an early hour and advancing two fresh great attacks. A British army under tire, south of the {Hu The, Associated Preso) to the of Sale of miles on a front of more than six corps and New Zealanders were Scarpe city Rheims. Haig's Half-Yearly AM»STFROA»M, 22. Aug. The anxictj miles. brought into action in forma¬ latest attacK represents the left arm of Limited Selection» Mean of the German war deep Greater Values! corresponelents i; We have retaken Albert. tion between Moyenneville and the a gigantic pincers, biting eastward to very apparent nowadays to impress the the northernmost Neckwear There was considerable resistance Ancre, in the direction of end of the bulging Fancy home readers that the "elastic" defence Bapaume Cernían line between at certain points, on the A British cavalry corps was held ir these two points. LIGHT SUMMER DRESSES-** in nowise impairs German discipline 01 especially Near the $35 slopes north of Bray, the town itself readiness behind the front. other end the French Tenth At the Reductions: lighting spirit. under General Following Formerly $50 to $85. Of voile not a part of our Army, Mangin, is press¬ gingham, calico, and Thus, the correspondent of" the forming objectives »Supportée! hy the strongest art il linen; We have over fire ing forward across the Ailette, while * captured and j . . including fine hand-made effect». Gazette" tells eif a siifT 5,000 pri- lery several hundred tank« 55c and 50c Scarfs Reduced to 38c "Cologne light soners in two Americans along the V'esie form the on lti and 17 west days. the enemy's infantry advanced t, August cf Roye it right arm in the great move¬ 75c and 65c Scarfs Reduced to . . 48c We captured in Albert L,400 the attack on a front of pincer which the Hessians let the enemy come pri about twent; ment. soners and a few guns- kilométras. Their $1.15 and $1 Scarfs Reduced to . . 69c REMAINING to to close quarters, when, under cover o first onslaugh DRESSES-Fonnerly $50.^» $18 In counter attacks in the General Mangin's advance along the Miran broke down before our . . One or two of a machine pun lire, they ltaped out an< battle posi Oise will hasten the $2 and $1.50 Scarfs Reduced to $1.10 kind, in ginghams and mont sector ti'<» oui German retire¬ lightSummer fabrics. a enemy entered tiona. repulsed the attack in ment before and Scarfs to . . standing-u] positions, but was elriven out In local General Humbert's army $2.50 $2 Reduced $1.55 fipht with of rifle and tha again counter attacks we re on the volleys fire, The same northeas other side of the Oise between likewise Fast Prussian thing happened captured portions of strips of terri This is a Clearance of seasonable Four-in-Hands REMAINING infantry boat of of Achiet-lo Grand. Hostile attack the river and Lassigny. The best, news SUMMER COATS-* $25 & $35 ;a tank attack em tory which had been ceded to th August 17 southwea east, of and received of Haig's new thrusts is the of choice imported and domestic silks, crepes and to Odds and ends of Courcellca east of Mo enemy according to Formerly $75. from various in¬ Roye. were also plan. report that the attack took the grenadines, from the regular Weber and Heilbroner lines, lie. adds that 145 yennevillo repulsed. The enemy renewed his violer enemy cluding a few linen motor short disabled tanks wer LONDON (DAY). -At 4:45 o'clocl completely by surprise. stocks. Included also is a limited number of fine coats, sport coats, etc. counted in front of the lines assaults throughout the day. Th The held b; this morning our attacked t.h< Germanp all along the line where bow ties. von Hutier'8 between troops main weight was on the wings of th army August positions of the attacks are expected have a and 12. enemy between thi attacking area. These» attacks Co adopted DARK Somme f.jd the Ancre river«. plan of defence which the Allies taught TAILORED SUITS-** $45 The "Ceilofcne corre lapsed completely, and with heav them in tho The sale of Manhattan shirts still continues Volkszeitung's" By nightfall yesterday our patrol losses to Champagne offensive. They spondetit pays an t the enemy. in all stores at material reductions. Formerly $65 to $85. Conservative models, very prac¬ involuntary tribute had maco progress on the let't hart employ machine gun posts only for de¬ price the efficacy of the F.ni.Mite Attempts of the enemy to rroi the tical for pamphle of the Ancre River to f - south fending first wide stretch of ground traveling, between-season, and first Autumn wear. am the Aisne nt. Hamel were frustrnte propaganda carried on l>v airplanes si uthonst of Beaucourt. between tbcni and the enemy. Behind A great number of tanks, which wei Baying that, these pamphlets "arc so se North of the Anne this forefleld, He the battle Eleven Stores River our posi soon shot to pieces, are befo position« ductively worded that any ona who i tiona gained lying: which form tho real defence, 241 Broadway 345 775 1185 Broadway REMAINING SUMMER *** not well yesterday were main our front. Broadway Broadway BL0USES-$5 $10 I informed may almost, if no tained against Tho tost of successful operntlon« 20 Cortlandl 30 ßrosd 42nd «nd Fifth Ave. be strong hostile counte Between the Somme and the Oh 44th 150 Namu to Mostly of voile, and white or entirely, persuaded." attacks delivered the against the retreating enemy lies In and Broadway 1363 Broadway 58 N«*au Formerly $18. colored Ho thorefor«* calls during after the day was quiet. Routhwejt tho for a vigorou noon and on number of prisoners handkerchief linen. evening the Miraumon Noyon during the of captured) counter propaganda to "enlighten and front. night Augu therefor« Mnngtn'n capture of 8,000 Achlet-le-Grand 20-21 we retired a short dlstani doubting spirit« in the army. The hostile prUonar« yesterday «how« a groat «ue- PROVIDE FOR THE FIGHTERS - BUY W. S. S. artillery haa been ver, without fighting, Throughout t]