The Elbert County tribune., 1918-10-18
AS PRESIDENT WILSON WARNS
GERMANY wANToN ACTS
BAR ARMIsTicE.
CITY OF ROULERS FALLS
FRENCH AND BELGIANs CAPTURE
5000 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
CONTINUE ADVANCE.
western Newspaper Union News service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
With The British Army In France.
Oct. 15.-The whole front attacked. il
now develops, extends for thirty kilo-
meters northward from Confines, the
British holding half of this line There
are further evidences that the Ger
mans are retreating from the Belgian
coast. Their stores are being moved
from Ostend and Bruges. More fires
have been started by the Germans.
especially in Thourout and in the
neighborhood of Cortemark. and great
clouds of smoke and flame now cover
the country Tor miles.
British, Belgian and French forces
attacked Monday morning on wide
front in Flanders. The allied troops
are driving in the general direction OF
Ghent and Courtrai.
The attack seems to be generally
from Confines to the northward. The
troops OF the three nations went over
the top after crash" bombardment
only
Paris-French troops have captured
the town of Roulers in Belgian Flan-
ders and also $500 prisoners, accord
ing to the official announcement.
In conjunction with Italian troops.
the French captured and passed be-
yond Sissonne and south of Serre oc-
cupied the village of Monceau-les-
Leups
to1 l. 10
is falling on deaf ears as far as the
armies in the field are concerned. In
stead of a relaxation in the intensity
OF the fighting. new hostilities on
what seemingly is major scale are
being carried out by the British,
French and Belgians in Belgian Flan-
ders.
With the French Army in France,
Oct, 14.-Laon. the last of the group
of natural obstacles forming the key
stone OF the German defense in
France, has been taken without
fight.
Berlin.-Nish, the capital of Serbia,
has been occupied by entente forces,
the war office announced Sunday
London.-Marshal Haig says British
troops have occupied Douai prison.
London. Oct. 12.-German troops be-
gan the evacuation of the famous
north of the River Aisne and south of
Laon
Fridays advices from the battle
front indicate 1t is virtually certain
the Germans will have to evacuate
the ST. Gobain forest almost immedi-
ately.
The famous Chemin des Danes, the
ridge which the Germans had believed
to be an insurmountable barrier to an
advance northward from Scissors, is
being evacuated. while in Champagne
and along the Meuse river farther
eastward the French and American
troops are pushing further forward
northward their lines in the great con-
verging movement which is fast driy-
ing the enemy from Belgium and the
greater portion of invaded France to-
ward his own borders
The grip of the Germans on north
ern France has been loosened and the
process of herding them back to their
borders is proceeding at an increas-
ingly rapid pace under the allied lash.
Already. since the beginning of the
July offensive. which initiated the
looseniDg process. the allies have
pushed the enemy back a maximum of
forty-five miles from the Ancre near
Albert to the tip of the present An
glo-American wedge at lie Cateau.
All along the battle front the allied
troops are advancing. From the south
of Douai to the east of Laon the en-
emy everywhere is giving ground east.
ward.
Paris, Oct. 11.-A quarter of a mil.
lion Germans now are in full retreat
between Cambria and St Quentin.
with the allies hot at their heels. At
some points the advance exceeded fiji
teen miles in two days.