The Robesonian., 1918-09-05
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GERMANS GIVING GROUND
OVER ENTIRE FRONT

Over Front of $50 Miles From Ypres
To Rheims They Are Giving Ground
Before Allied Armies.
Latest news from the front is to
the effect that the Allies are still ad-
vancing along all lines and the outlook
FOR the utter defeat of the German
army is brighter than ever.
The Associated Press summary this
morning gives the following:
The Germans are now giving ground
over the entire 150-mile battle front
from Ypres to Rheims.
Seemingly the question whether the
Germans will be able to hold even rel
atively their present line from Flan-
ders to Champagne is being answered.
And the answer apparently is in the
negative.
The strategy of General Foch,
which imposed upon the Germans the
necessity of falling back in Flanders,
Artois and Picardy, now likewise is
compelling the enemy to withdraw
from the Vesle river between Soissons
and Rheims, northward to the Aisne,
in order to avert disaster.
Outfanked on all defensive works
on the western part Of the line and in
great danger Of a turning movement
eastward from the regions Of Noyon
and Scissors the German high COM
nanG at last has been forced to begin
rhe retrograde movement in the Sois-
Sons-Rheims sector which the military
experts long had predicted would be
necessitated through the successes Of
the French, British and American
armies.
The climax to the German maneuv-
ers along the Vesle eliminated when
the French virtually swept away the
last remaining portion Of the old sa-
lient in the region Of Noyon and the
French and Americans north of Sois-
sons and along the Vesle reached po-
sitions dominating the Aisne and the
Chemin des Danes and crossed to the
north side of the Vesle on front of
nearly 20 miles.
Ali 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 harrassed by outposts of French
and American troops and by artillery
fire and the machine guns and bombs
of the allied aviators.
While the debacle in the south seems
complete, in the north the Germans
also are facing a crisis. Everywhere
from Peronne to Ypres, Field Marshal
Haig's men are keeping hard after the
enemy whose line daily is being bent
back further eastward, giving the
British better points of vantage from
which to work in their task OF regain
ing as their first objectives, st. Quen-
tin, Cambria, Lille and Armentieres.
From Ypres to Lens additional towns
have been recaptured and the old sa-
lient more nearly reclaimed. Lens,
the famous coal city, is said to have
been entirely evacuated by the Ger
mans, and the British are only await
ing the dissipation of the noxious gas
es and the rendering of the city safe
from the possibility of the detona-
tion of mines in the Subterranean coal
chambers to enter it.
From Arras southwark to Peronne
English, Scotch Welsh, Canadian and
Australian troops everywhere are mar
RAISING the enemy, meeting his vio-
lent gun fire with such irresistible
pressure that the enemy has been vi :
.tually nonplussed and has retired, al
Eastward of the old Droeourt-
Queant line the enemy has been push
ed across to the east bank OF the
canal du Nord, where at last accounts
he was endeavoring to prevent by the
use of innumerable machine guns
British advance over the ditch.
- 0e
eight mile front between Molslalnes
and Demicourt, the British at severa
points have beaten their way acrJss
the canal and Wednesday night were
pressing the enemy we'll to the east
ward.
Drocourt-Q -Queant Line Broken:
British troops Monday captured LIZ
Transloy, southwest of Bapaume, ane
took the whole of st. Pierre vast
wood. Considerable progress was
made by Field Marshal Haig's forces
on the whole 33-mile front between
the river Scarpe and the river Lys
The Drocourt- -Queant switch line wa:
broken in two on 6-mile front. Many
prisoners were captured by the Frit
ish.
The much-boasted Drocourt- Quear
line, or Wotan line, as the German
call it, one Of the most powerful! de
tense systems ever devised, is totall!
shattered. Tuesday the British wcr'
driving far through it and the Ger
mans were hurrying eastward. Try
ing to save what men and mataii;.-
he could.
The British independed air forc'
has dropped many tons Of bombs cl
German military works in the Rhln
provinces in the past few days, dolns
much damage. -,
Tuesday Lens was taken by tn
British. This mining town has resist
ed the strongest efforts of the britisl
ever since the German retreat iron
TIE Marine in 1914.
The following is taken from yes
terday's Associated Press summary,
Additional areas of territory will;
long had been held by the enemy hav
been restored; many thousands p
Germans have been sent behind tn
lines to swell the great throng aleead
fhn,n