Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-14
i eutonic Front Continues to
Be Bent Back Under Blows
! Struck by the Allies, but It
3 Has Not Been Broken.
STRATEGIC POSITIONS
WRESTED FROM BOOBIES
Enemy StronghoIds Of La
Fere, Laon and Great Part
Of St, Gobain Massif Cap
tured by Allied Troops,
tUnlated War Lead, by the Asso-
ciatcd PrcsS.)

The German battle line in France
continues to bend under the attacks CT
the entente allies. hut nowhere has I
been broken. The enemy almost
evs rywhere is IN retreat toward new
positions, but his retraet is orderly
and the British, French and Amer
leans ere being compelled to Eight
their way forward slowly in the face
of euhmy machine gun detachments
actirc as rear guards.
Highly important startegic positions
have been wrested from the enemy by
the British and French, while on their
sector of the front the Americans have
further advanced their line on both
sides of the Mouse, obtaining the OBJ
jectlves they sought
Tie British advance after DAYS of
hard fighting has brought them at last
to the gates of Douai. which long has
held back tie British from closing in
upon the great bend in the line which
has Lille as it's center and which has
been considered by the military ex-
ports as the keystone to the German
defense system through northern Bel
giuIn to the sea
LaOn and La Fere Fall.
To the south the French have
blotted out both La Fere and Laon
and the greater portion of the st.
Gobahh massif standing in the elbow
where the line runs eastward toward
the Swiss frontier. Here also the
Germans for weeks had stood fighting
desperately, realizing that a success
full advance by their foes woul,
shatt.r all their military plans in the.
south and probably compel a swifter
retirement than now is being carried
out and possibly make untenable the
entire Mouse line. to which It is be-
lieved they are gradually making
their way.
Fly the successes of the British and
the French the entire German line
from Rheims to the Belgian frontier
is made decidedly more unstable. and
with the new advances of the French
and the Americans in Champagne and
along both sides of the Meuse north
ward, seemingly the enemy, for few
days at least will have to hasten his
steps eastward and northward to
prevent the great converging mean
euver from capturing large numbers
of prisoners, especially in the pocket
from the region northwest of Rheims
, to Ia Fore. Here, however, the enemy
seeing the ultimate fall of Laon, may
have used the great network of rail
ways and successfully withdrawn a
majority of his forces toward Me-
zieres.
french Cross the Aisne.
Alons the Aisne in Champagne the
French have forded their way across
the river at various places and are
almost upon the important railway
town or Rethel. whence it is only a
step to Mezieres while north of
Nouzieies they are continuing to bat
tie their way forward toward Sedan.
In the bend of the Aisne more than
thirty-slX localities have been liber-
ated by the French and several thou
sand civilians freed from bondage.
Since the offensive began 1867
Germans have been made prisoner
and GOO of their guns captured.
With the situation in France and
Belgium highly satisfactory to the
allies, the operations in Serbia and
Albania likewise daily are being car
ried forward successfully Nish, the
capital of the little kingdom. after
the invasion by the Austro -Hungar-
ians has been re-captured and the
enemy driven to the hills north of it,
The A 1stro- Hungarians are slowly but
surely being driven northward in AL
bania and now are being engaged in
the region of IDek. thirty miles
southwest of Novipazar