Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-04
CBy The Associated Press)

From Flanders to Soissons the Brit ish. French and American forces are keeping up without cessation their strong offensive tactics against the Germans. who all along the battle front are still giving ground, although at certain points not without strong resistance. Seemingly it is the full realization of the peril he is in that now is prompting the enemy to put forth his esvery effort to avert com piete disaster.
 Additional areas of territory which long had been held by the enemy have been restored; many thousands of Germans have been sent behind the lines co swell the great throng already there in prison camps, and many of the enemy's dead lying upon the bat tlefeld testify to his heavy casualties. Retreating columns of the Germans have been cut to pieces by the British artillery from captured vantage points.
 From the region around Arras southvard 10 Peronne the British line las moved forward everywhere since tho famous Drocourt- -Queant defense ine wac overwhelmed and left in the rtar. Eastward of the Droccurt line The British now are nearing the Canal Su Nord Douai. Nalenciennes and Cambrai have been further encroarh- ed upon bv English, Canadian and Australian troops, while east of Pe- r1nne the British line has been stead iIv pushed forward. Numerous towns and villages have fallen into the hands or Field Marshal Haig's men, notable among them Queant. at the southern end of the Drocourt -Queant line
 To the south the French along the Canal du Nord are giving the enemy no rest and gradually are plotting out the remaining portion of the salient north of Noyon, while or the Soi-- sons sector the French and Ameri- cans now are in control of ttc entire plateau dominating the Aisne, the Chemin des Danes and the roads to T.son and La Fere.
 In Flanders the British have pene- trkfed the outskirts Of Lens, the fa- nous coal mining city in northern France. and farther north in the Lvs salient have taken Richehourg st Vaas7 and established themselves or the hne of Ia Bsssee road and be- tween there and Estaires. having cap- tured the last named place. Steeo wercl< and WulverEhem also are il British hands and thus the great sa lient is virtually wiped out
 Unofficial despatches say that in thf rerlon cast ana southeast or Ara, the Germans are retiring to a new switch line running from Brebieres five miles southeast of Drocourt southward to Moeuvres, where it joins the Hindenburg line near Graincourt IT this should prove true the rev line already seems nenaced as FielC Marshal Haig's men virtually are up on it at Lecluse and Rumancour. southeast of Arras and almost abreas Of it at BaraIle, three miles north O Mocavres.
 British aviators have carried out aI intensive bombarding raid on towrl i'm the Rhine provinces. Heavy dam age Is said to have been done by tn, missiles dropped from the low 1yn, planes
 The United States government hat recognized as co-belligerents in tn war against the Central Powers thu rzecho- Slovak peoples. They alread, have been recognized by Great Brit ain. France and Italy. and Japan through her participation in the ex redition in Siberia with the other al. lied countries. has given implied rec. oEnition.