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.