Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-04
ALLIES CONTINUE
|. STRONG OFFENSIVE
PLAN AGAINST FOE
Piles of Dead Left Lying on
Battle Field Show Aw-
full Losses.
| BRITISH LINE ADVANCES
FROM ARRAS TO PERONNE
French Continue Blotting Out
Remaining Portion of
Noyon Salient.
AMERICANS CONTROL PLATEAU
Tons of Bombs Dropped Upon Towns
in the Rhine Province by
Allied AyiatOrS
AMERICANS CONTROL PLATEAU
Tons OF Bombs Dropped Upon Towns
in the Rhine Province by
Allied Aviators. trtsG
tRy Associated Prcss1

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From Flanders to Soissons the Brit.
ish French and American forces are
keeping up without cessation their
strong offensive tactics against tho
Germans. who all along the battle front
are still giving ground. although at
certain points not without strong re- p
sistance. Seemingly. it is the full re-
aiization Of the peril he is in that
now is prompting the enemy to put
forth his every effort to avert com
plete disaster. ,-.e,s
Additional areas Of territory which
long had been held by the enemy have
been restored: many thousands of Ger
mans have been sent behind the lines
to swell! the great throng already there
IN prison camps, and many of tho
encmy's dead lying upon the battle
field testify to his heavy casualties
have been cut TO pieces by the British
hntillery from captured vantage points
before which the enemy was compelled
- pass unshetered from the fire fot4
the British gunners. I... ,{5- s,,.-(.
From the region around .Arras south
moved forward everywhere since the
famous Drocourt- -Queant DEFENSE line
o ns ana ft s e the Es
!sh are near the Canal du Nord, and
Douai valenciennes and Cambrai have
iish, Canadian and Australian troops.
east OF Peronne the British line has
been steadily pushed forward. Nu-5
into the hands Of Fled Marshal Haig' s. s
men, notable among them Queant, at
Queant line. ~lsiI.
To, the south the French along the
canal ga du Nord arr giving, the enemy
the remaining portion of tho salient
north OF Noyon. while on the Sossons
tor the French and Americans now
dominating the Aisne. the Chemn-des-
DANES and the roads to Laon and La
Fcre. t
BRITISH PENETRATE
OUTSKIRTS OF LENS
In Flanders the British have penc-
trated the outskirts OF Lens, the famous
coal Goa mining city in Northern France
have taken Rich ebourg-St Vaast'.and
established them mselves on the lineSof-
La Ea,arss bassee re road and between there and
named place. Steenwerck and Wni-
verghem also are in British hands. and
thus the great salient is Virtually wiped
out. 80,
Unofficial dispa tches say that In the
region east and southwest of Arras the
line running from Brebicrcs, five miles
southeast of Drocourt southward to
Snrs ns Tns,e hssr Joins the Hndsn
should prove true the new line ALREADY
seems menaced, as Field Marshal HaiE's
men men virtually are upon 1t at Lecluse
ana kumaucourt. southeast of Arras,
and ALMOST abreast of it at BaraIle,
three miles north OF Moeuvres.
HAVE BEEN GIVEN NO 49,
TIME TO CONCENTRATES
Monday morning along the Drocourt-s
Queant switch line tho Germans hayS
not been given an instant in which
for a moment and the British troops
arc on top of them and pushing be-
In the towns through which the
British advanced the hghting has been
most severe, the Germans firing from
behind De. cover and the British swarm
the tanks charged into masses Of Ger
mans who Were holding out stubborn
~ pdm ana crushed them to pieces.
lower end of the switch line indicated
sah, snat tne canadians were engaged u
nbgn'imG fbe majr OF Shoth the heayiest character
me northern section OF these positio,Y
viiisrs SnG Germans rs neld out in the town. ef.
CAPTURED. Throug ghout this ztns the
British troops are capturing larsa.
numbers of prisoners
Already the taking Of 10000 Mr. soners
by the British in their advance is
reported. and the German casualties In.
have been notably Heavy. lea "eeasFen as sheIp lp
thickly massed forces felt the forcs ~
the British blow.
BRITISH AVIATORS DROP
BOMBS NEAR RstSI.
British aviators have carried ous IN,
Intensive bombing raid or towns m
the Rhine province, dropping isrg,
quantities OF explosives on Beuf! SaaT-
brucken and Ehrang. Heavy namae-
is said to have been done by tho MIS-.
SIZES dropped from the low-fl
planes
REGARDING this portion OF the conflict
the night report Of the British ava.
ton service. says: The British lnde-
pendent air force within the past tWen-s
ty-four hours. has dropped fifteen tons
or pombs on German military works ~
the Rhine province. go.
Three raids were made on the Ger
man airdrome at BuehI Three ham
sars were demolished. ana direct hits
were obtained on many others.
me railways at Ehrang. four miles
northeast of Treves, were attacked
from height Of 5000 feet, and ST every
oomo scored direct hit.
AT Saarbrucken, forty miles south.
east or Treves, the Burbach works and
railways wero bombed. Tf9 -
the pilot Of a British two-seater
was attacked by two hostile machtness3
The enemy flrcd explosive bullets, and
the pilot was hit fivo tiucs In tho
left leg. Although hia feg was 81.