BIG AMERICAN DRIVE EXPECTED

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 290, 27 August 1918, Page 5

BIG AMERICAN DRIVE EXPECTED

New York, August ffi. Military critics in AVnsiiingtoii are daled «t. llio latest Aliied'surci'ss. A big drive, liy th« American Army is expected in Mio southern seniors of tho West front. Mr. Jnmcs, » correspondent with the American Army, states that, the- Germans launched three violent attacks on the Vcslo sector, bur, I'iio.y were broken liy tlio American troops. In one instance throo German battalions attached one American battalion, which held its ground in lighting which contiuued all afternoon and night.—Aus.-N.is. Cable Assn. AMERICAN LOSSES IN RECENT ATTACKS "NOT UNREASONABLY HEAVY," (Rec. August %, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, August 2-1. General March (United States Chief of Staff) says that the United States army oversells now totals a million and a half. The American losgps in tho recent attacks were not iinroasombly .heavy. One American division captured sixty-eight, German guns recently and three thousand five hundred prisoners. General Pershing lias not yet organised, the American First Field Army.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. , • THE WAR IN THE AIR GOOD RESULTS BY THE INDEPENDENT AIR FORGE. (Rec. August 26, 9.25 p.m.) • London, August 26. The Air Ministry reports: "Our aeroplanes to-day successfully attacked 'an aerodrome and the railway stations at Bettembourg and Luxemburg with excellent results."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. "AMERICAN RAID ON CONFLANS. (Rec. July 23, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, August 2<l. Aniericin aviators bombed Conflans, and did not lose' a single machine. Minor fighting has occurred along tho Aisne.—Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn.