The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-10-23
NO PAUSE IN BATTLE.
GERMANS MAKING A RUNNING
FIGHT TO SAVE ARMY.
Their Plan Evidently is to Retire to a
Shorter Line and Set up Defense
From Dutch Frontier Through Ant
werp and Namur to Sedan OR Metz
in South.
The Belgian coast again is Belgian

The Belgian coast again is Belgian
Germanys dream Of an invasion of
England across the North Sea = -onl
Calais is ended.
Belgian Flanders is fast being
evacuated by the enemy, and his line
from the Belgian frontier to the
Meuse River gradually is giving way
under the attacks of the British,
French and American armies which
are demanding to be served with VIC
tory.
4 haven of safety in a shorter and
more compact line is being sought oy
the Germans in order to escape an
aibilation by their foes. Everywhere
.hev are being whipped though SEEM
ingly they are still far from de-
feat.
In Belgium the enemy is giving
ground hastily in order to bring ms
armies safely out of the trap Whlch
n1enaces them; but from the French
frontier to the Meuse River he still
is fighting desperately to hold PACK
the lower jaw of the great Foch plncer
from closing in a great conFerslns
movement and entrarping in its Jaw
1.-The German fighting force in its en-
tirety. And thus far he has success
fully, through the use Of picked troops
and machine gunners who know de-
feat only in death, warded off the cui-
minating blow.
Zeebrugee, Germany's second grea'
submarine base on the North Sea, mas
gone the way of Ostend. The nag OF
Belgium once more flies over it. Tc
the south Bruges has been evacuated
and Turcoing, Roubaix and othel
towns have been delivered. Out OF the
great sack between the North Sea
and the Lys River the enemy is hee'
ing fast in an endeavor to prevent
capture or internment in Holland. his
hope is that he Will be able to reacf
Antwerp and there reconsutute MS
line from the Dutch froptier through
antwerp and Nanur to some pom
in the south, probably Sedan or Metz
and stabilize it for the moment
least, to the Swiss frontier.
In France, east Of Lille to Cambral
the British slowly but surely are
pressing forward despite supreme ef
forts Of the enemy to hold them, blot
ting out the big salient which ha
Journal as it's northern and Valen
ciennes it's southern enemy held ba
ses. To assure the collapse Of thi
salient Field Marshal Haig, witt
whose forces Americans are brlgaded
is driving hard along the Bohaln-Le
Cateau front in a maneuver which
meeting with success and thrown;
Valenc;ennes into a dangerous pock
ct.
To the south in the sack betwee'
the Disc and the Serre Rivers norti
OF Laon the Germans slowly are with
& wing toward IIisron with the en-
emy impeding their progress will
strong rear guards. Likewise il
Champagne the Germans are offerln
strong resistance against the Frencl
and Americans IN their attempts t
drive northward toward Mezieres an
Sedan. The French, nevertheless
have been able to cross the Aisn
River near Vouziers and thus hav
made more secure the poSltlonS OF III
Franco-American forces in the vale
of the Aire at Grand Pre-.
To the east the Americans on bot
sides of the Meuse River are slowl
going forward. Between the grea
wooded bastion and the Meuse pick
ed troops have been chosen to deten
the blow northward toward Sedan. A
y the ground that is being won is bein
,, valiantly defended to the last.
In the Macedonian theater tn
Greeks are now in full possession o
Greek Macedonia. Albania is fast be
ing cleared of the enemy and in Ser
hia the Teutonic allied forces hav
been driven 80 miles north of Nist
In Syria the victorious forces Of Ger
Allenby now are meeting with scan
resistance.