Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-09-07
TERGN|ER CAPTURED
IN SWEEPING VICTORY
London Sept 1.-The French have advanced
on forty mile front at one point making four
miles progress.
Tergnier has been cap
tured, said a report from
the front today.

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the front today.
British troops have progressed
along the entire front from Havri-
court to the Asne river.
Hun in HeadIong Flight.
With the British Army in Flanders,
Sept. THE Germans are in head
long fight toward the old Hindenburg
line south OF Cambria and north Of
St, Quentin according to reports just
reaching here from the fighting front.
The enemy is making all possible
haste to get behind the old defensive
positions
Wars Biggest Victory.
Paris, Sept French forces fight.
ing their way forward in the sectors
of Tergnier and Anizy-le-C Chateau.
northwest of Laon have advanced
farther in their present offensive than
they have ever been able to 90 in
that region since the outbreak of the
war
The communique issued by the war
Office today showed that the battle
is going onward and that the Germans
are in continuous retreat.
The War In Summary.
This was victory week tor the
allies and it closes with the Ger
mans virtually on the fronts that
they held after the big retreat to
the Hindenburg line in the spring
of 1917.
The German strongholds Of Ham,
Tergnier, Chauny and the Coucy
forest have fallen before the on
rush Of the allied armies and fresh
peril has been added to the Ger
man defenses supporting the left
flank of the Hindenburg line.
A bare two miles separates the
French from the German bastion at
LeFere ehe allies are only four
miles from St Quentin.
During the past thirty hours the
British and French have rolled for
ward from two to seven miles. The
best gains were made between Pc
rome and the Disc rivers where
many additional villages have been
" taken.
East of the Somme the British
went forward about seven miles
since they forced a passage of the
river and to the east OF Ham the
French have advanced over three
miles.
French forces are smashing their
way ahead and on stretch of forty
miles they rolled the Germans
back from two to four miles in the
past twentyfour hours.
The new gain covers portions of
the Flanders, Picardy and Aisne
battle fronts. altho there has been
no change of importance north of
the Vesle.
Northeast of Scissors the French
are enlarging their gains on the
Alsne heights and ii is becoming
more apparent that the Germans
Will have to go back to the line
they held before they started their
offensive toward the Marne in Nav.
General Foch is steadily turning
the Chemin des Danes, driving east.
ward along the Ailette valley.
There is a double motive In this
strategy. Not only does It flank
the Chemin des DANES but increas
es the menace to the German stronp.
hold at Laon mad will eventually
compel the Germans to retreat
again to the northwest of Rheims.
Dissolution Awaited.
Washington. Sept. Dissolution
of the Central Powers with the suhse.
quent establishment of a group OF
small Independent nations is posi-.
biiity IN the not far distant future.
This was frankly admitted BY State
Department officials today following
persistent reports coming from Neu.
tral nations telling of dssention. riots
and mutinies in Germany and Austria
Hungary These reports can not be
entirely without foundations and are
becoming more and more significant.
Whether Germany is defeated next
month or next year the government
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