New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-11-01
HUNS RETREAT0 ON
O|SEAISNE LINE
FocH sATTERs GERMAN LINE ON
FOUR FRONTS AND GAINS At
VITAL POINTS.
YANkS ARE ADVANCING
ANGlo-ITALiANS CAPTURE 5000
AUsTRiANs-FRENcH TURN
ENEMY FLANK.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Paris, Oct. 29.-General Debeney's
army has won u signal victory. The
German forces holding the Serre-Oise
front are in retreat and the whole
German line between Chateau Porcien
and the Argonne is in danger Of being
turned.
Persistent attacks by General Debe-
ney's interchangeable infantry have broh-
en- the river line, which is the last
water line commanded by the enemy
between the present front and the
Mouse.
In all the battle zones the allies are
meeting with marked success. In
France the German battle line IL
slowly disintegrating under the vio-
lence Of the allied offensive; in north
ern Italy the Austro-H ~ungarians are
being forced back by the British.
French and Italians with heavy
losses in men killed, wounded or made
prisoner; near the shores of the Adri-
attic in Albania the Italians are driv-
ing the Austrians toward the Monte
negro frontier, while in Asiatic Tur-
key, both in Syria and Mesopotamia,
the British are fast clearing the Turks
from their former strongholds. More
than 5000 Austrians were taken pris-
mel in the operations on the Italian
front.
With the American Army Northwest
of Verdun, Oct. Fisherman troop
concentrations in the region OF Bril-
quenay, north of Grand Pre-, were
bombed by about sixty all-American
bombing airplanes, with about eighty
pursuit planes protecting them.
The French armies fighting on the
forty-mile front between the Disc and
Aisne rivers are keeping up their q
fensive against the Germans and have
made additional gains, taking several
villages and compelling the enemy to
fall back at various points.
On the western front the British.
French and Americans have continued
to make further gains against the Ger
mans; in the Italian theater both the
British and Italians have scored sue
cesses, while in Asiatic Turkey the
British have captured Aleppo, in Syria.
and are driving ahead O. both banks
of the Tigris in Mesopotamia, with the
Turks unable to check them. The fall
of Aleppo and the continued advance
up the Tigris are moves of such
strategic value that it ia not unlikely
Turkish opposition shortly will be EN-
tirely overcome, both in the Holy
Land and M~esopotamia.
London, Oct. 26.-Italian troops
have begun an offensive between the
Piave and the Brenta. In the Mont
Grappa sector they advanced across
the Ornic river and captured Monte
Solarolo, part of Monte Prassolan and
Monte Pertica.
In the Piave river the Italians have
captured the islands Of Grave, Patta-
dapoli and Maggiore. The weather on
the front is unfavorable.
French forces advancing northeast
ward between the Disc and the Peron,
a tributary Of the Serre, have pene,
trated the village of Villers-le-Sec and
surrounded the villages of La Ferte,
of Villers. The French also
have made some advance farther east
along the Serre and the Souche.
The British have captured Maing.
of V~alenciennes, and vende.
gies-sur-E caillon, on the front below
Valenciennes. A German counter at
tack was repulsed.
The French are advancing along the
Disc and Serre rivers.
Americans are pushing through Ger.
man lines on both sides Of the Mens..
London, Oct. 25.-Field Marshal
Third and Fourth armies, hav-
ing smashed through the outer de-
lenses of the strategically important
German line south of Va~lenciennes,
continue successfully to hammer their
way toward Maubeuge and Mons.
Thursdays attack started from this
new front gained Wednesday which re-
suited in an advance of between three
and four miles ON a front Of fifteen
in which more than 5000 pris-
oners and many guns are reported I o
have been taken. The enemy Is resist.
Ing stubb0rnly. but the British are
ahead. capturing villages and
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