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GERMANS PIEPAR1 FOR ROUT BY LOWING "
UP AMMUNITION DUMPS BEHIND LINES
m PRISONERS, ■
MB EONS CAPTURED
(By the Associated Press.)
With the British Army in France, Aug. 9—
Routers telegraphs that tha Germans are blowing up
their munitions dumps. This is considered as an indi
cation that the enemy is preparing for a retreat.
Allied airmen are blowing up bridges over the
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Somme river, seriously em harassing the enemy ret
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treat. It is reported that a German divisional general
has been captured. j ^ 4
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(By The Associated Press.)
London, Aug. 9.—More than seventeen thous
and prisoners and two hundred guns have been cap
tured by the allies in the Somme drive up to noon to
day, according to this afternoon’s advices from the
-ront. 'li'M', jl..
(By the Ass ciated Press.)
London, Aug. 9.—Fourteen thousand prisoners and guns
too numerous to mention have been taken in .the British drive
south of the Somme river, says a war office announcement;
this afternoon. The allied progress was continuing this
afternoon late. The French have taken Fresnoy-en-Chaussee,
while the British have reached a point east of Lequisnal and
Caix. The Germans are evacuating their positions in the Lys
valley on the Flanders front
(By the Assr^iated Press.)
London, Aug. 9.—Reports from the battlefront this af
ternoon indicate allied cavalry, tanks and armoured cars have
gone ahead to the line running from Farmersville to Lihons
From Lihon the line runs southward to Meharicourt, southeast
to Rosiers. It is believed that here it will be impossible for
the Germans to hold their Montdidier positions- It is believed
- also that Amiens is now secure against attacks of the enemy,
and that any threat against Paris is removed.
(By the Associated Press.)
Paris, Aug. 9.—The battle south
b of the Somme river was resumed this
morning, and the British made favor
^ able progress from the start, reach
ing their various selected objectives.
Powerful cavalry forces are in action.
Reports received at 11:30 o’clock this
morning show the attack is develop
ing victoriously on a great scale.
(By The Associated Press.)
Paris, Aug. 9.—The war office re
| ports the battle front south of the
Somme river unchanged.
(By The Associated Press.)
French Front in France, Aug. 9.—
The French have advanced to a depth
of four miles on a six-mile front
south of Montdidier. Nearly three
thousand prisoners and important
material were captured in the ad
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vance, which was carried out with ex
tremely light losses.
(By The Associated Press.)
i London, Aug. 9.—The Franco-Bri
| tish advance south of the Somme i
j river has reached a maximum depth j
! of eleven miles, according to news j
^ received shortly after noon today. ■
I British cavalry and armoured cars j
and tanks in advance of the infantry j
; are reported within one mile of
| Chaulness, a railway junction. The |
| total number of prisoners has reach
j ed ten thousand.
!sPlli PROTESTS'
TO BERLIN Kill
(By The Associated Press.)
Madrid, Thursday—Spain has ad
dressed a new note to Germany con
j cerning the torpedoing of Spanish
ships. Foreign minister Dato made
this announcement this afternoon af
ter an extraordinary session of the
cabinet
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Miss Esther Case was here Wed
nesday from, El Paso, Texas, going to
Batesville to visit her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. R. Case. Miss Case
recently went to El Paso to return
to her missionary work in Mexico,
but on reaching the border was not
allowed to cross and was compelled to
return home.
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WILL ASK IIIISL
OF LOCAL BALES
H. C. Couch, president of the Ark
ansas Light & Power Company, will
appear before a special meeting of
the city council at the city hall to
night for the purpose of asking for
the right to raise the rates charged
for lights and water from the com- j
pany’s local plant, according to in- 1
formation received by the Independ-1
ent.
The Independent suggests that a!
goodly number of representative i
people attend this meeting for the
purpose of acquainting themselves I
with the claims to be made by the '
company’s' official.
BARN IS SET ON FIRE.
Searcy, Aug. 8.—A large barn
stored witth feedstuff belonging to |
C. H. Mann was destroyed by fire j
Tuesday night. Two horses also per- J
ished. Mr. Mann, who is foreman at ■
the government quarry at Bee Rock, |
lives two miles north of here. There j
was no insurance. The fire was so;
evidently of incendiary origin that i
Sheriff Plant telephoned to Conway!
for bloodhounds, which arrived i
about dawn this morning. They fol
lowed the trail to the river, where it
was lost.
DEFERRED CUSS
MAY HIED
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Aug. 9.—Secretary
Baker, urging prompt enactment of
the draft extension bill, told the sen
ate military committee this after
noon that unless the ages were ex
tended it will be necessary to invade
the deferred classifications.
EFFORTS TO ABOLISH
COUNTY TREASURER’S
OFFICE MEET FAILURE.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 9.—Several at
tempts of the constitutional conven
tion to abolish the office of county
treasurer or to combine it with some
other office. Mr. Williamson of
Drew, however, did secure the adop
tion of an amendment providing that
there shall be a county treasuurer
“except as otherwise provided by
this constitution,” so that the ques
tion is really left open.
The constitutional convention voted
down a proposition to prohibit coun
ty officers from succeeding them
selves or becoming candidates for
any other county office during the
term for which he shall have been
elected.
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WHOLE GERMAN LINE
MENACED BY ALLIES
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(Associated Press War Summary) <
The German lines on the (Picardy front south of the
Somme river have been badly broken by a savage Franco-Bri
tish thrust, which has driven a wedge into enemy territory to
a depth of eleven miiles along the Amiens-Chaulenes-Le-Fere y
railway which forms the chief artery of supplies for the Ger-*
mans in the Montdidier sector. The allies are reported to be ^
going forward almost without serious opposition south of the pm
Somme river. North of the Somme the Germans have held /
their lines strongly, but lost Mo rlancourt after hard fighting* V
Further to the north the French advance has been retarded at * *
numerous points, but the towns reported reached indicate the M
momentum of the drive is not nearly spent.
The success of the allies south of the Somme river con
stitutes a serious threat to the German line. A further allied
advance in Picardy would outflank the Germans from the dise £
river and probably cause an immediate retreat to positions
which can be landed with the Aisne line.
There has been little change in the situation along the I
Vesle river. Franco-American pressure continues. Substantial
forces are reported now to be coming across „he Vesle river.
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Casualty List |
(By the Associated Press.) 3$
Washington, Aug. 9.—Army cas- m
ualties show killed in action, Meehan
ic Victor Martin Ellig of Fort Smith,
Ark., Private Claude J. Dunn of
Amity, Ark.; died of wounds, Pri- $
vate Leon B. Oucher of Kaiser, Ark.;
Missing in action, Privates Brady D*
Virden of Bald Knob, Ark., and Wsbb,,/''
Green of Plainview, Ark.
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Aug. 9—Army casu- f
alties show killed in action, 90; died
of wounds, nine; * disease, two; ■ ac
cident, one; wounded severely, 20; <3
slightly, two; degree undetermined,
41; missing in action, 303.
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Aug. 9.—Marine corps ,1,
casualties show killed in action, four; ; • ’ 3
died of wounds, five; wounded se- '1
verely, 13; degree undetermined, 30. 1,
Private Brady D. Virden, who ia 5
listed as missing in the above casual- ^
ties, was well known to E. E. Best,
assistant cashier of the Arkansas¥:3lS
Bank & Trust Company of this city,
who formerly resided at Bald Knob. ij
Mr. Best says Private Virden volun- ' ’-^J|
teered his services about a year ago
at the age of eighteen. The boy, with
his brother, who is also in the army,
assumed the management of a farm
a short distance from Bald Knob
when their father died just before
the war broke out, but enlisted when
the call for volunteers was sounded.
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A steam caterpillar, which is used to move the heavy pieces, brings up a camouflaged “grandmother” to assist In
checking the advance of the Huns.
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DECLARES STATE
OF 10 EXISTS
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Aug. 9.—The Amer
ican consul at Moscow has informed
the state department that Lenine, the
Bolshevik premier, recently declared
before a meeting of Soviets that a
state of war existed between the Rus
sian government and the entente al
lies.
DRY BON EN ESS DOESN’T
AFFECT SIZE OF SNAKES.
Searcy, Aug. 8.— Mrs. Gussie
White, who lives at White Oak
School House in White county, killed
a monster rattlesnake this morning
near her home. The snake was very
large around, measured fourteen and
a half feet long and contained four
teen rattlers and a button. It is
claimed to be the largest snake ever
killed in this community.
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