The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-10-02
&fUENTIN MAY FALL
81 NOM AT ANY MOMENT

Dn6On. Oct l.---French and Egit-
f0cpe have penetrated ST. Quentin,
&ontral bastion OF the Hindenburs
3c1al news TO this effect came
the Paris war office in its com
l1que, tonight.
NJ greatest. most faT-fung Ger
retreat of the war has begun,
nxhbrai, virtually surrounded, half
o&xa4ed by the British. and partly
oanes, may he regarded as in al
hands Abandonment OF It's east
Osatskirts by the Germans - a
&1er Of hours
a Ne fall Of the two cities eliminates
center OF the whole Hindenhufg
10 the south of st Quentin, Ia Fere
i 1bout TO fall. and still further down
136 French are less than Ave miles
64m Laon,
4 u Cateiet, between 81 Quentin and
mn hrai, il encircled by British and
kneriCans.
tn the north Lille IS graYeiN
e1atcned by the Relgians and Ff3t-
- plunging southeastward from the
: III region. white above thIs north
hinge of the Hindenhurs line the
k3nns are rapidly outfanking what
~ same time driving northward TO
coast. against the U-boat bases
&0atend and Zeebrugge
Ss British Take Many.
The British captures durins August
September, announced ny thH
Hnander in chief in his night re-
~. tell an imposing story OF what
X been achieved in sixty days IN
tember, S., 800 prisoners and 100
were taken. and for tho t"o
bths the figures are Prisoners
91S; guns. Loo.
E43 the meantime the EeigiahS with
British on their right. are piune
ever eastward through the blood
&@Sched fields OF Flanders They have
9S1Ee menacing strides toward Thoro0t
~ In the south are less than three
S5lns from, Courtrai
What this means the Germans them
|1YGs know best, and they are sho"
their knowledge of the menace hy
fhifest preparations for Il retreat So
9S1recing lis the Anglo Belgian. bulge
SsfhN German northern front that the
&&we already is being set for the
NNcuation Of Belgium The mllitsfE
l|Sxarnor at Brussels is reported pack
- lest he be caught by surprise
y fere so many stan officers IN the
(NSne and 81 Mihiel drives.
From Roulers the base taken ~ the
|~5xtans yesterday, railway leat@
'84Sight northwsrd to Thorout Thence
NJ rail branches run TO the coast one
3stend, fourteen miles 10 the n"ftH~
iAat. and the other To Bruges. eleven
Has TO the nor theast. Another etght
St1ee northward from KrugcS lies |ee-
&HGge.
Menace TO western Line,
I t.-2. =
|0omed g soon as Thorout fails, bit
re Germans viii be forced 70 take
EEK their whole right wing, resting on
- sea. at least as far eastward as
~ Ghent -yalepciemnes lire. and that
S11Ans the whole western Inc must go
Ekrk.
EDn the southern part Of HE front
France the German situation ~
|3aAlly precartous and is rendered
H0re periioGs every hour General
heny-s army cooperating with the
|Itish. Is closing the enycloplns ring
Eound 81 tt,,antln from the soQth
3aeneraI Iangu is surrounding =.
haip. also FROM the s5uth- His right
ANIL fiye niles from Laon- the south
n hinge OF the whole German west
ent
Nseneral Berthelotfs army r. pushing
In the Champagne, pocket1h- III
snjunction with Maugin. forces the
nrman position before Rheims 'on-
5*pds army. eo-opcratin& WIKI Perish
&esA American first army. lS eAtenaih&
Il Argonne Meuse pocket
Hail these advances are being mace
midst the Interest lighting mostly 81
W. hand-to-hand sort i'nt slow ly
ia surely the French are pushing for
fArd everywhere.
TAr3hin@s hrSf army @-aN ~ =