Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-27
GERMAN RETREAT
PLACES DUTCH IN
A NEW DILEMMA
Netherlands Armies Must Be
Strong Enough Says Rep
ingtOn, to Prevent Any At
tempt to Cross Border,
(By Lieut.. Col. Repingtoh.)
Copyright, 1918. by The Press Pub
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buqueruue Journal.j
London, oct. 26.-On nearly all sec
tors of the front from the sea to the
! Meuse the enemy is still IN retreat.
with much loss in men. material and
morale. In Flanders the army group
under the king os Belgium has COM
| pletely carried out its first great task
| has cleared the enemy from the coast
| and has reached the frontier of the
Netherlands.
/ For the Belgian and French troops
of this group and. to less extent. for
| our Second army, the difficult duty
| remains of wheeling to the right and
| forming a new front facing south and
southeast. for an advance toward
Client first and then along the line of
Antwerp Brussels.
Must Open Channel Ports.
| For the execution of this duty, the
| speedy reopening of Ostend and Zee
! brugge. for the delivery of supplies, is
/ obviously desirable. Il may be as
sumed that preparations have been
made in advance for this need and
| for placing in order the railways
! from these ports to the new front of
the kings group.
! We are all glad to think that we are
in touch with our Dutch friends again.
| and that the wisdom of our united
| diplomacy has kept up the friendship,
in spite of the many and serious ques-
tons as TO which the harsh events of
| war have naturally given rise. But
| because this is happily so. the Meth
erlands government, always so pru-
| dent, Will not ignore the fact that dur
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fFa'F ior Americans.
! The most brilliant of recent opera
tons has been. that of Rawlnson's
| Fourth army, which has, in series Of
hard-fought battles given Won Boehn
some unpleasant experiences. With
RawlinsOn have fought the Twenty
seventh and Thirtieth American di-
visions, whose Valor received hand
| some and well deserved acknowledge
! ment in one of the communicates
from general headquarters.
For three weeks these two divisions
| have fought continuously. have shared
in three general attacks and have
| taken 5000 prisoners and many guns.
At critical time and place they have
! gloriously upheld the honor of Amer
The French armies are also in
movement from the Sambre to the
/ forest of Argonne They were neces-
sarily delayed little by the German
! stand in the st. Gobain region. and
they are a bit behind from the Disc
| to the Aisne. but they are quickly
making w ground and General Gnur-
aud is well forward on the right. The
I brilliant feats of the French First and
/ Sixth armies are recounted in COM
muniques published today.
Throughout the entire allied line
| there is rivalry in gallantry, and the
common resultant report in every
( contest is: THE boche is beaten. :"
! soon we should stand upon the gem
eral line of Mezieres- Hirson- Valen-
Tournai-Courtrai (the British
are past Courtrai and at Tournai) i,
! with good railway communications