Arizona republican., 1918-10-14
BRITISH HAMMER
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 GATES IF O0NA|
Enemy Must Hasten To Avoid Huge Trap-Re-
 lease Civilians By Thou sands-Nish Is Captured
(RY THE ASSOCIATED PREss)


 The German battle line in France continues to bend under the attacks of the entente allies, but nowhere has it been broken. The enemy almost every where is retreating toward new posi- tions, but his retreat is orderly and the British, French and Americans are be- ing compelled to fight their way for ward slowly in the face of enemy ma chine gun attachments acting as rear guards.
 Highly important strategic positions have been wrested from the enemy by the British and French, while on their sector of the front the Americans have further advanced their line on both sides of the Mouse, obtaining the ob- jectives they sought.
 At Gate of Douai
 The British advance after days of hard fighting has brought them at last to the gates of Douai, which long has held back the British from closing in upon the great bend in the line which has Lille as it's center and which has been considered by the military experts as the keystone to the German defense system through northern Belgium to the sea.
 To the south the French have plotted out both La Fere and Laon and the greater portion of the St. Gobain mas sif, standing in the elbow where the line runs eastward toward the Swiss frontier. Here also the Germans for weeks had stood fighting desperately, realizing that a successful advance by their foes would shatter all their mili- tary plans in the south and probably compel swifter retirement than now | ic hQinor n r~ripd nd nnSCih1N a lyc untenable the entire Mouse line, to which it is believed they are gradually making their way.
 Great Maneuver Planned
 By the successes of the British and the French, the entire German line from Reims to the Belgian frontier is made decidedly more unstable. ana with the new advances of the French and the Americans in Champagne and along both sides of the Mouse north. ward, seemingly the enemy, for a few days at least, will have to hasten hi. steps eastward and northward to pre-. vent the great converging maneuvel from capturing large numbers of pris- l oners, especially in the pocket from tht region northwest of Reims to La Fere Here, however, the enemy, seeing tht ultimate fall of Laon, may have uset the great network of railroads and sue. cessfully withdrawn a, majority of it: | forces to ward Mezieres.
 Thousands Are Released | Along the Aisne in Champagne, tn, French have forced their way acros the river at various places I'd are al most upon the important railway towl of Rethel. whence it is only a step t, Mezieres. while north of Vouzieres the, are continuing to battle their way for ward toward Sedan. In the bend of tn Aisne. more than 36 localities hav been liberated by the French and sev eral thousand civilians freed iron bondage. Since the offensive began 21, 567 Germans have been made prisone and 500 of their guns captured.
 With the situation in France an, Belgium highly satisfactory to the al lies, the operations in Serbia and Al bania, likewise, daily are being carrie forward successfully. Nish, the capita of the little kingdom, after the invasio by the Austro- -Hungarians, has bee recaptured and the enemy driven to tn hills north of it. The Austro- Hungar ians are slowly but surely being drive northward in Albania and now are be ing engaged in the region of Ipek, 3 miles southwest of NovipaZar.