St. John's Daily Star, 1918-08-29

              The St. John's Daily Star. flJeui fo tmd lan <$> ggg=-  (S&QO per Annum) THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1918- I I ■ I . ■■ my., __. _  (PROBS:—Moderate Winds; KneJi 1 ' ' -m.. No. 18*0 ROYE AND CHAULNES HAVE FALLEN MJJED FORCES CONTINUE THEIR VICTORIOUS ADVANCE DESPITE STRENUOUS RESISTANCE OF THE GERMANS ROYE TAKEN BY THE FRENCH Three Miles On An : Jxont, Capturing The Towns of | in Out- Bapaume fSffgnraTßS WOOD HSA ALSO BISBN CAPTURED BY THE FRENCH in -(fe*&e-.A.:fe3f. ln|m»sfcililiwilnli mnirfnn h i ITm iEnsnTi inlhi ' nlnflliMil rtTnrV following-an _m*__m-. The Germans-are -fenfecdttMar* sevea-mae front ■ii ft muff" MWifn nf Fnjr troops lwl.i lujjlfl nilu»tiirrrf fnr nn aver_agto*k capturing th"= nrf /"hnp--ui Mesmk accurdmg to news receured. here to njg^bw4fa&iiaaile£ronL lir>ie?saortit«>f the Eaßchflp&ance, JBrihsb iroops pushed iis/jd between Hedevilfe jus* and xeached-tbe outskirts of Dompierre. Field Marshal Haig's men are in the outskirts of Bapaume, bat they are not actually in the town itself. The greatest depth of the British advance today represents a distance of about three miles. Chanmes Wood Taken. With the French Army in France, Aug. 27. (By the A. P.)—Activity behind the German lines on the Aisne j and Avre fronts has increased gen-| eralh/ since the French successes j around Roye and on the plateau j north of Soissons. In the region east | of Roye the German* seem to be preparing for an eventual retirement. The French pushed on, today and reached the edge of Chaulnes, after taking Chaulneas wood by assault On the south they reached Amy, two miies southeast of Roye. FEARS AN UPRISING * Amsterdam, Aug. * 28.—A despatch to  * The Weser Zeitung * * of Bremen from Vi-  * enna reports that * something like a gen* eral mobilization is * proceeding in the * Polish Czech and  * South Slav districts 1 * and expresses the * fear that hostilities  **. may commence * * shortly with the con- ' nivance of the enten- * **■te powers. ADVANCE FOUR MILES British, Fighting East of Arras, Reach Ontskirts of Harcoort London, Aug. 28—British forces fighting east of Arras have reached the outskirts of Harcourt, Remy and, Boiry Notre Dame, north of the Ar-j ras-Cambrai road, according to the official statement issued by the war office to-day. The British line in the Flanders bat tie area has been advanced on a front of four miles astride the Neuf Berquin-Estaires road. POLLING UP THE BOCHE Baltic Rages i..... . orty-five M3e | P-ont wit1- p: "X Offr***'re With the 3ntish array in France, Aug. 27—(By the A. P.>— Having been still further extended by attacks launched north of the river Scarpe, the battle to-day was raging along a field almost forty-five miles long, and the British with renewed; vigor were rolling up the Boches before* them and creeping constantly eastward. PUSHING THEM BACK Fig. 1 is the Lys salient: Fig. 2 the Somme salient, in both >r which the allies are forcing the Germans back toward the del Hindenburc line, shown by the broken lim:.- - -—-'- HAS ASSUMED CONTROL OF MILITARY FORCES * Attempt to Place Gen. Horvath at Head of Anti- Bolshevik Government • Has Failed. ALLIED NATIONS OBJECTED TO HIM ULADIVOSTOCK, Sunday, Aug. 25. j 1 (Via Shanghai)— General Plestv koff, chief of the Russian forces in Siberia and Manchuria, acting on behalf of General Horvath, the anti- Bolshevik leader, by a coup d'etat has assumed control of all the Russian military forces in the far east. The Russian volunteers have gone over to General Horvath m a body. The Siberian government is non plussed and has been unable to organize any opposition to the new movement. The consular ©facials are holding meetings to discuss die situation. There has been no blood shed. General Pleshkorf, as announced in recent despatches, went to Vladivostok and prepared to execute a coup d'etat designed to place his chief General Horvath, at the head of the government in Siberia and the Russian rathtary force in the far east. The government at Vladrvostock vets ihrowa into coafasion <and was impacted unable to deal with ttSe sfi~ uatkm. Representatives of «fes ntfei, ; recording to today's advices, acted j. fery promptly, with the matt that ■ "tße\ coup failed and what ymommut c/oe an embarrassing sitnarsoa wss Jeared away, kwa»snade plan Pfcsh ; \.ow that the allied nstiom would ouUtenance no government not in xooTdanoe with the wishes of the : people. General Horvath is a repre; erjiatrve of the old schools of Rirv •Man aristocracy, having been an appointee of the czar. He has been or many years in the far east, where : le has been manager of the Russian• .lanchnTias railway. Soon after the overthsow of the z£r he joined fosses vorh fae ■J n'ltl »e_ — —  FRENCH CAVALRY ENTERS NESLE Retreat of the Germans is Much Quickened «a Parts of The Line With the French Army in the held, Aug. 28—(By the A. P.)— French cavalry this morning entered Nesle. French infantry occupied the town of Cressy two and a half miles south east of Nesle. The French third array to-day captured Dives and pushing to the eastward, reached the outskirts of Noycn. The retreat of the Germans was much quickened at some parts of the line today. Smash Hindenburg Line British Headquarters in France, Aug. 28—(Renter's)—Hard fighting continued to-day. The Canadian! troops delivered another attack in the course of about five miles, evenly flanking the Arras-Cambrai road 1 his fighting carries them into the j main artery of the Hindenburg line. CHAULNES CAPTURED k Paris, Aug. 28.— ) k Chaulnes has been J * occupied by French 1 troops, according to  1 an official statement y X issued today by the } 1 war office. CANADIANS OUTFLANK ARRAS-CAMBRAI ROAD Penetrate Deeply into German Lines And Cap tore Number of Villages SCOTTISH BATTALIONS ALSO MAKE CONSIDERABLE ADVANCE I ONDON. Aug. 28— (ollcial--This mosmng our troops operating astride ihe Scarpe again attacked, overcoming -- resistance oi  emy in his old front ifclli ■■« prior to his offensive of "March 2*st. The Canadian* penetrated deeply into fte Cernwm position* between the Soasee and Satjm Aw and cqjtured Cherisy, Visasn, Artoise and Boissart, with many pAoneru, On the right of the Canadians Scottish troops crossed! Ac Sensee and seized Fontaine les Cwhnlks, cimrTliiriiiig themselves on the *topes cf the spur south df the village and taking several hundred prisoners. North of the Scarpe other Scottish battalions carried Roeux, Greeland and Garvelle, and English battalions gamed possession of Arieux em Gohellc and the other German line south of this bertwessu Croiselles and! Bapaume, and to the MUth. English and New Zealanders, in heavy fj^htmg^jepuisidl stocks delivered by •German envisions recently* brought up "to reinforce the battlefront. Beawy'fosses were inflicted on these dinfckms in their unsuccessful ettacks.Despite their efforts to prevent our VJnmcc our troops stormed the village of Beaugfmtre and progressed *n several points between Bapaume mSi Crutsenes. South or Bapaorae ateo the Engush troops gained ground in the face of strong opposition. We reached the western outskirts of Flers, and have driven the enemy from Longueval, Devil le wood and Beraaay wood. Counter-attacks bythe Prussian guards in *his area were repulsed. MURDERER IS CAPTURED tania Captured by French Patrol Boats and Brought I JWAS ON U-BOAT IN MEDITERRANEAN the man who sank the Lusitania, has been captured by a French patrol boat in the Mediterranean, according to Le Journal. A targe sub- I ' marine, of which he was second m 1 command, had jus* torpedoed a Brit-1 ! ish steamer between Malta and Sicily. I The German was waiting to see the | vessel sink when the French patrol boats emerged from the fog and sank the U-boat. Of the crew of 75, only ione o&cer and four men were res- Icued by the patrol boats. .While being taken to Toulon the i o&cer appeared ill at ease. When ihe thought no one was looking he triced to throw some papers overboard | but a sailor seized his arm. He refused to answer questions, but an examination of his papers explained ; his uneasiness. Le Journal asks if the man who committed the most vile, the most barbarous and most cowardly act in the annals ,of the war is merely ta Ibe sent to a prison camp. Red Guards Win Victory Czecho-Srovaks Forced to, ~ Retire Before Raking Fire. rnday. Aug. 28 f (By the A. P.)—Following the recent retirement of General Kalmmoft's Cossacks in the Ussuri River district the Bolsheviki Red Gdards passed a force, disguised as peasants and travelling in farm wagons to the right and rear of the' Czech-Slovaks j troops and raked the Czech-Slovakj positions with field guns from a hill. j ! The Czecho-Slovaks were again j ! forced to retire a considerable distonce. There were many casualties. The Japanese and American troops !at the time were not in a position to : support the Czecho-Slovaks. The Red Guards made an unsuccessful demonstration against the railroad line between Nikotska and Pogranit. China. They evideody intended to interrupt communication i between Vladivostock and Harbin. The second contingent of American troops has been established at | the base, at the head of the bay. The base has excellent storage and* railway facilities and quarters for the arriving troops. The commander of the forces has organized a labor battalion of 500 army prisoners, thus relieving the Czecho-Slovaks of feeding them. The men are working with apparent willingness. » ■  BERLIN OFFICIAL REPORT Says Attacks of Awes Around Bapaume W«ne Beaten o*. Berlin, via London, Aug. 28.—The German official communication issued this evening dairrfs the repulse of allied attacks on various sectors of the figliung front. The communication foatauw: Southeast of Arras Renewed enemy attempts to break through failed. North of Bapaume and north of the Somme English attacks broke down with heavy fosses. Between the Somme and the Oise there have been four field engagements before our new positions. French attacks north of mc 'Amne were sanguinarily re- South of lite Scarpe our foremost troops yielded, on command, to enemy attacks mesde with numerow* tanks and strong infantry forces and withdrew to the heights of Monchy le Preux. There the fire of our infantry and artillery, standing ready to repel the attacks, received thi mnny and after a bitter fight the adversary pressed forward over Monchy and Guemappe Heights. BRITISH TAKE 21,000 TEUTON PRISONERS Aggregate of 21,000 Prisoners Captured by tha British in Four 'Days-of Hard Figthing AMERICANS AND GERMANS IN BITTER FIGHT AT FISMETTE Entire Russian Military Forces in East Siberia Have Gone Over to the Anti Bolsheviki- MEW YORK, Aug. 28 (By the A. P.) j Frenzied counter-attacks by a foe . who realises that the vitals of his de-; fense are being eaten into, have failed j to hold back the. British and French ! armies, who are hard after the Gear- j mans on the seventy-five miles battlefront from ths north of Arras to the region of Sois-ions. All along the i front the German line has given way j bef \e the pressure >A the British aid ! French troops at points where ihe' falling back oi the enemy or the cap- ; ture of towns and roads running eastwards adds to nis already precarious prcicament on the standpoint of! strategy. Numerous towns, villages and hamlets have fallen into the hands oi the British and French in the continuation of the fight, and scarcely anywhere along the battlefront have the Germans been able to do more than delay the allies when they knock for , admission to the German line. . Rearguard Actions. Rearguard actions, in which innumerable machine guns are used, also are serving merely to keep the allied advance slowed down as far as possible, while the mam German bodies make their way eastward in the retreat toward new positions. In the region around Arras the British now are well astride the roads i leading to Douai and Cambrai, and ! farther south along the Somme they ! have pressed forward until they are j almost at the gates of Peronne. j Between the Somme and the Oise the French have broken the backbone of the German res»tance >A \ Roye, capturing this pivotal position I to an invasion eastward of the plants of Picardy and advancing their lines north and south of the town over a front of about 12 and a half miles to a depth of more than two and a half miles at certain points. North of Soissons the French, although the Germans are fighting them bitterly, have advanced slightly the.r line in the outflanking movement both against the Chemin dcs Dames region and the Noyon sector. Everywhere the Germans have lost heavily in ny: killed or made prisoners, and in ad dicion the allied troops again haw captured numerous guns, machia guns and war stores. Large Number of Prisoners. The prisoners taken by the Britis from last Wednesday to Monday n the present week aggregate 2 LOW In the fighting on Tuesday arouu St. Mard, west of Roye, the Frenc secured I 100 captives. The Car.) dian troops are fighting in ' live I. fashion between the Sensee aa Scarpe rivers. Bapaume, one ot the  prjrrrts -hegprf*t much fighting, is stiil held by t} Germans, but the British are now ! nearly around it that possibly a fa enemy remain inside the shell-tci town. Ihe British in the west at in the outskirts of the p!ac;, a? doubtless'it soon will be nipped c of the battle line in the pincer raov ment that is being employed again it. In the north the British alrei: are across the upper end of the o Hindenburg line, and if their progr continues they will soon be able operate to the east of the line unscarred ground, on which ta: and cavalry can be brought into U fray with good results.  Airmen Are Active. Behind the lines everywhere Frer and British airmen are harrassing j Germans in retreat, but at this wo they aie being met by large for" of the enemy airmen, who are figi ing hard in an endeavor to make cure tlie retreat movement of tn foot soldiers. In the Vesle front trie Ameskl and Germans are in a rather bit! fight in the towns ot Fisrr.etie ?.' Bazouches. The Americans star' the trouble at Bazouches, and t Germans reciprocated with an aftn on Fismette. At last recount? Americans had the upper hand both places. In East Siberia the entire Riw military forces have gene over to . support of the anti-Bolshevik lea<; THE WAR SITUATION (By J. T. M.) THE news we are getting from the front appears to be from twentyfowr to forty-eight hours old. However it is new news to us, and latterly it is good news. The British have broken completely through the famous Hindenburg line between Oppy. eight miles west of Douai and Hendecourt. eight miles southeast of arras, which constitute* a front of about ten miles. Therr position in that sector places them astride the national highways and railways between Arras and Douai. ?nd between Arras and Cambrai. The indications are that the British will extend their attack northward toward Lens for the purpose of getting on the German lines of communications between that siroitghoki ?nd their rear- They are now only five miles south west ef the Douai-Lens railways, and a successful thrust against the German line five miles north of their pres ent position would place them astride of the Lens-Douai railway in the vicinity of Mericourt, about two miles southwest of Lens. As may be observed, the plan of campaign has been | the gradual extension of the area i attack north and soufh from i Picardy battle field, which forms i centre of the present drive. Refer! to this aspect of the drive in th ootes on the fifteenth instant, it f pointed out that thc development (Foch's strategy would p"ace sevc , five miles of the German defenc jeopardy. Thri he has accomplis!' and the break through at Chau! and Roye, the keystone positions the present batik line, will li; result in retreat of the enemy p the whole of the front from north the Scarpe. probably from Lent, the Aisne, and may extend «c east as Rheisn*. The British drive along the co* of the Somme, southeast of ABj brings their posts wjthm i miles of Peronne on the north I of the Somme. 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