Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-21
British Headquarters Predict
Fall Of Client at Early Date,
as French Are 0utfIanktng
This City,
HUNS MASS IMMENSE
FORCE AT LIE CATEAU
Desperate Effort Being Made
Here to Hold Up Advance of
Allies Which Threatens Dis
aSter on Large Scale,
undated War Lead: BY the Associated
prcst)

Victory crowns the allied arms on
every battle front Northern Belgium
is being rapidly cleared of the enemy
by British and Belgian forces. Bel
gians have occupied Zeebrugge and
Heysty have crossed the Ghent- Bru-
ges canal and on their left have
reached the Dutch frontier, where 15,-
coo Germans. cut off from their re-
treat by the advance northward from
Eecloo, are reported to have with
drawn into Holland, where they were
interred.
Ghent, IT is predicted from British
headquarters, will fall at an carly
date, as the French, by swift stroke
along an extended line, have put their
forces within two miles of Journal
Thielt is in the hands of the French,
despite the stubborn enemy resistance,
as well as the high ground round
about.
British troops have crossed the Selle
river, have recorquered Solesmes and
have had hard fighting not only in the
section around that town but at st.
Python, to the east. Here the British
have captured more than 1000 prison
ers.
IOtHi Ghlb, IHiftN MICS.
Since the beginning Of operations in
Flanders, the allies have made an adj
vance of more than thirty miles over
a thiriy-six mile front, clearing all
of western Flanders. as well as the
coast of the enemy.
Fighting desperately to hold their
positions to the north and south of lie
CateaH, the Germans on front Of
~ II =,
million men. This is vital to the Ger
mans, but is Just as vital to the success
Of the allied arms, which was steadily
pushing the enemy back and breaking
through at stmtegical points.
The British third army is smashing
it's way forward to the south of Va
lenciennes. Success so far has at
tended this effort and the turning Of
this line will prove a source of great
danger to vast masses of German
troops holding the territory to the
north and south.
The American forces operating in
conjunction with the British north of
Wassigry have advanced to the Cam
bre-Oi canal. They occupied Re-
ject, east of st. Souplet at the point
OF the bayonet. Wave after wave of
machine gunners faced the Americans
who inflicted enormous losses on
them West of the Meuse American
activity was confined to the consolida-
ton Of positions captured from the
Germans.
Bolsheviii Beaten.
on the front in Russia a severe de-
feat with the loss of 1000 men killed
has been inflicted on the Bolsheviki in
the Yekaterinburg district by Czecho
Slovak and Siberian forces.
Germanys reply to President Will
son has been handed to the Swiss
at Rerln for transmission to
the United States, according to un-
official advices reaching Amsterdam
from German sources In the reply
German expresses willingness to
evacuate Belgian soil, but believes
such withdrawal would necessarily
take several months
1t is added that the German gov
ernment is prepared Professionally to
abandon its U-boat campaign. Mad
rid dispatch says that Germany has Of
ficially notified the Spanish govern
ment that the German admiralty has
recalled all submarines to their bases.