The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-09-06

The Germans are now giving ground
over the entire $50 mile bagtle front
from Ypres to Rheims.
Seemingly The question wh:her the
Germans will be able to hold even rel
atively their. present line from Flan-
reds to Champagne is being answered.
And the answer apparently is in the
negative.
The strategy of Gen. Foch, which i'm
posed upon the Germans the necessity
of falling back in Flanders and Picar-
dy, now likewise is compelling the en-
envy to withdraw from the Vesle riv-
er between Scissors and Rheims, north
wari toward the Aisne, in order to
avert disaster.
Outfianked on all defensive works
along the western part of the battle
line and in great danger of turning
movement eastward from the regions
of Noyon and Scissors, the German
high command at last has been forced
to begin the retrograde movement in
the Soissons-R Rheims sector which the
military experts long had predicted
would be necessitated through the
successes of the British, French and
American armies.
The climax of the German maneu-
vers 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.
All behind the front toward the
Aisne huge fires are to be seen where
the enemy Is making his way as fast
s.s 5Osslbse neFthward, in ell prohabil-
ity harrassed by outposts Of the
French and American troops and by
artillery and machine guns and bombs
T of the allied aviators.
! While the debacle in the south seems
complete in the north the Germans al
so are facing a crisis. Everywherefrom
Peronne to Ypres Field Marshal Haig's
men are keeping hard after the enc
my, whose line is daily 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 detectives st, Quen-
tin, Cambria, Lille and Armentierres.
From Ypres to Lens additional towns
have been recaptured and the old sal
lent more nearly reclaimed. Lens, the
famous coal city, is said to have been
entirely evacuated by the Germans and
the British are only awaiting the dis
sipation of the noxious gasses and the
rendering of the city safe from the
possibility of the detonation of mines
in the subterranean coal chambers to
enter it.
From Arras southwark 20 Peronne
English, Scotch, Welsh Canadians and
Australian troops everywhere are har-
RAISING the enemy, meeting his violent
machine gun fire with such irresist-
ible pressure that the enemy has been
virtually nonplussed and has retired
at some points almost precipitately.
Eastward of the old Drocourt-Que-
ante lint, the enemy has been push
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, a
British advance over the ditch.
To the north of Peronne, over an
eight mile front between Moislans 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.