Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-27
Allies Strike on Aisne River, With Douai One Of the
Principal German Supply Bases, as CoaE Pershings
Drive in Champagne Sends Huns Back Seven Miles on
Twenty Mile Front and Nets 5000 Prisoners; French
End Of Drive Sweeps on Four Miles,
NEW BRITISH BLOW,
VITAL THRUST At HUN
Another Step in Marshal Foch's
Plans to Drive All Huns Across
the Border.
London. Sept. 27-2 p. IN

p,;.;eh ,roops made new attack on
u;dn front south OF the Scnsee river this
morning. according To report received
here from Field Marshal Haig.
First reports indicated that salts
factory progress is being made.
The Sensce river is small stream
aowire To the northeast and paraiieline
on the south the Scarpe river, when lows
past Arras anc passes through tne I'M,
portant city Of Douai, one OF the principai
German bases on the Artois IRON. in
France. II is probable that the bntsn
attack Is made for the purpose ol nr,VIhg
awedqe between Douai ana ta"o'"'
about fifteen milesto the south.
Io,don sent 27 - p. m-The
allied troops IN Macedonia have captured
more than ten thousand prisoners, says
statement from the war Office More
than two hundred guns also have been
taken.
Paris. Sent. Successful develop
ment of the French offensive began yes.
terday in the Champagne IS reported
today by the war office.
The attack by French troops IN the
Champagne developed yesterday WIN
success. From the Suippe 10 the Ar
gonne the first German positions,
formidable network of trenches and wire
en,anglements of a depth Of more than
five kilometres, which the enemy had not
ceased to strengthen since lsi9, were
brilliantly carried by the French troops
The French have captured the butte-
du MesniI, the Butte-du-Souain- tne
| Butte Tahure and the villages Oh
Tahure, Ripont, Rouvrey, cerhay-eh-
Z N{nfY Yfr
More than seven thousand prisoners
were taken by the French.
The French forces resumed their at
tack this morning, and despite unfavor-
| able weather conditions satisfactory prog
ress is being made.
Over the entire field of attack by the
| French, between the river ouippe ana
the Arponne forest, the formidable Ger
man positions Of a depth OF more tnan
/ three miles were brilliantly carried
/ Reports AT D. m. today from tne
battle front in the Champagne between
the Suppe and Meuse rivers indicate
I that the attack of the French ana Anefi-
! can troops is progressing under tue most
/ favorable conditions.
J General Gouraud's fourth army IN the
! Champagne resumed its attack TINS
! morning from the positions captured from
the Germans yesterday.
The assault is progressing satisfactorily
The French have attained all tnef Oo-
| jectives-
The prisoners captured by the French
today have not yet been counted.
Associated Press Summary p M
Under allied smashes on two wide
fronts between Arras and Nerdun the
German defensive system based on the
fortress of Laon is being shaken severely.
Marshal Foch, while continuing the
successful Franco-Amerlcan thrust from
east of Rheims to Verdun, has hurled the
British against the German lines north OF
+ Cambria on a front south ot the Sensee
river
GERMANY PROTESTS ARMISTICE.
/ Allied successes in Macedonia have
resulted in the offer of an armlstlce being
made by the Bulgarian premier 10 the
allied generalisSlmo IN Macedonia and
to London. The allied commander has
/ refused to stop fighting, but SAID he
would receive accredited Bulgarian dele
+ gates. Germany is said 10 have protested
/ against an armlstlce MeanWhlie, the
allied forces are pressing on and pushing
farther apart the divided German-Bul-
+ garlan armies.
From the new line reached Thursday
night the American forces between the
i Arponne and the MeuSe continue to press
northward through the hilly wooded
country northwest Of Nerdun. The
/ Americans are well beyond the original
German lines and hold important OBJ
servation points along the front
ALLIES TAKE l20O0 HUNS.
West Of the Argonne to the Sulppe the
f, Irorch hox,a advanced more than three
and one-half miles and taken and passed
bevond formidable German defense points,
including the famous Navarin farm. the
Butte du Tahura and the Butte du Mes
nil. General Petain's men took more
than seven thousand prisoners. who, with
the five thousand taken by the Americans,
brings the allied total fer the first day Of
( the attack to 10000,
j Cnnfi inned on mage &