The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-08-11
NO Time TO TALK ABOUT
THE WAR Being over
Allied Troops Have Captured More
Prisoners Than it is Possible for
Them to Handle-Prison Camps OF
British Back of Amiens Are So Eui,
IT Us impossible to Hold More.

| Washington. Aug. 10.-"This Is the
time for the greatest efforts; keep the
enemy running"
General March, chief of staff, sum
married thus today, to newspaper men
the situation IN France.
On military maps he pointed out
that the great battle front was repid-
| ly being Strengthened out from Rheims
| to the sea.
They have not yet" he said, SCOT
ten back the original Hindenburg
| line. where the German began hia ad-
vances this year, We still have some
| territory to gain, so when statements
appear that indicate the var is over
at this point, discourage it.
| This is lifetime for the greatest
| effort, keep the enemy running That
is the reason the United States is
being called upon for increased man.
power: that Is. the reason We want
| lineage limits for the draft both low
cred and raised. to get more men.
1T is no time to talk about the war
being over. 1t is time to hit and
| hit hard.
"The greatest advantage of the
whole thing has been the change OF
the allies from the defensive to the Of
fensive, which is a great military as
set. We have the enemy guessing now
| instead of guessing ourselves"
"From a confidential report General
March read the following account OF
the situation on the French front
south of Albert;
ALLIED troops found little opposi-
| ton and have captured more prisOne"s
than II is possible for them to handle,
including a German general and his
staff, showing elements of a surprce
attack. British report their prison
camps back of Amiens so full that it
is impossible to hold more. Allies
have captured all theartillery in this
sector"
Describing tho effect of the alliod
operations, General March said:
Surveying the battle line broadly,
you see that there have been q MN
ling along the Vesle river front &C
curing a foothold on the northern
| bank, but have not yet attempted to
! go up the slopes on the north side
where German Entertainments are sup
posed to be That part of the line
has remained stationary.
AS the line has become stationary,
Foch has kept up his pressure on the
enemy, working on the perfectly
sound principle that when You get an
enemy going, YOU keep him going;
never give him chance TO recuperate
or think it over; keep on hitting him
ION August 8, combined British
and French force, commanded by
Field Marshal Haig attacked on a
front of twenty miles east of Amieus.
This terrain Is flat, almost level, and
while sometime ago there were small
clumps OF woods, all of those unloubt-
edly have been levelled long ago by
artillery fire. so we can count that
country as practically level with very
little natural mpediment to an ai-
vance. There are a few valleys per
pendicular to the front of our advanc-
ing armies instead of parallel to 1t. 50
that the advancing troops can go riGnt
through the valleys.
"The enemy were apparently taken
by surprise and made no essential re-
sistance in the center, combining their
strong resistance to the TANKS Hit
ting the hig salient on a l3 mile front
4 we pushed II in an average of eight
H miles. and reduced It from an outer
II Jalient to an inner salient That gives
| Ius salient somewhat correspondents
II to the Marne salient and places the
II enemy aeain in a had position. Th'
II advance of the British and French a
II this point comes up so that they ar'
II getting into control. or threatening
H the railroad line of communication
II which at that point run up from tn
II Mont Didier sector to Chaulnes.
II "On the Flanders salient the enem'
I'LL IN August WAS Withdra wing on tn