Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-09-05
Germans Are Retreating Ey-
eywhere From YpreS to
Rheims Under Stiff Pressure
Exerted by Allied Troops,
LENS IS EVACUATED BY
GERMANS, SAYS REPORT
British Awaiting the DiSap-
pearanCe of NoxiouS Gases
Before Entering This Fa-
NOUS Old Coal Center,
UNDATED War cad by the Associated
Dress

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The Germans now are giving ground
over the entire 15O-mile battle front
from Ypres to Rheims
Seemingly the question whether the
Germans will be able to hold ever
relatively their present line from,
Flanders to Champagne is being an
swered And the answer apparently
is negative.
Marshal Foch's strategy. which im-
posed on the Germans the necessity
of falling back in Flanders, Artois and
Plcardy, is compelling the enemy to
Withdraw from the Vesle between
Soissons and Rheims. northward to-
ward the Aisne.
Outflanked on all defensive works
along the western part of the BATHS
line and in great danger of a turning
movement eastward from the regions
of Noyon and scissors. the German
high command has been forced to
begin the retrograde movement in the
Soissons- Rheims sector. Military eX-
perts long predicted this would bo
necessltated by the allied successes.
SIllllaN 10 nun hHIcuVcrS.
The climax to the German ma.
neuvers along the Vesle eliminated
when the French swept away the por-
ton of the old salient in the region
of Noyon and the French and Ameri.
cans north of scissors and along the
Vesle reached positions dominating
the Aisne and the Chemin Des Danes
and crossed to the north side of the
Vesle on a. front of nearly twenty
miles.
All behind the front toward the
Aisne huge fires are to be seen where
the enemy is making his way as fast
as possible northward. in all proba
bility harassed by outposts of French
and American troops and by artillery
fire and the machine guns and bombs
of the allied ayiators
While the debacle in the south
seems complete, in the north the Ger.
mans also are facing a crisis. Every
where from Peronne to Ypres. Field
Marshal Haigs men are keeping hard
after the enemy. whose line daily Is
being bent back farther eastward,
giving the British better points of
vantage from which to work in their
task of regaining as their first OBJ
jectives st. Quentin, Cambria. Lille
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additional towns have been recap
tured and the old salient more nearly
reclaimed.
Germans Quit lens.
Lens, the famous coal city is said
TO have been entirely evacuated by
the Germans, and the British are
only awaiting the dissipation of the
noxious gases and the rendering of
the city safe from the possibility of
the detonation of mines in the sub
terranean coal chambers to enter 1t.
From Arras southwark to Peronne,
English, Scotch. Welsh. Canadians
and Australian troops everywhere are
harassing the enemy, meeting his vio-
lent machine gun fire with such ire
sistible pressure that the enemy has
been virtually non-plused and has re-
tired at some points almost precipi-
lately
Eastward of the old Drocourt-
Queant line the enemy has been push
ed across to the east bank of the
Canal Du Nord, where at last ae-
counts he was endeavoring to prevent
the British advance by machine gun
fire.
To the north of Peronne. over an
eight mile front between Moislains
and Demicourt. the British at several
points have beaten their way across
the canal and Wednesday night were
pressing the enemy well to the east
ward,