The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-28
FRENCH TROOPS
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field. has been captured and many
other vital points have been taken
from the retreating enemy.
While the French have been smash
ing the enemy's front along the
Chaulnes-Roye line, the British have
swung forward in the sector east of
Arras. North of the Arras- Cambria
road, they have reached the outskirts
of the villages of Haucourt, Reny and
Boiry-Notre Dame, about a mile east
OF the positions where they were
known to be yesterday and well east of
the Hindenburg line. = South of the
Somme the British have taken Fou-
caucourt. while north of the river they
have gained nearly all of Trones wood.
In the Flanders area the British
have advanced their line over a front
of four miles astride the Neuf Ber-
quin road. This is the area from
which the Germans have been retiring
for the last three weeks.
The Battle Continues.
continues with undiminished violence
Allied troops, particularly on the
northern and southern wings Of the
55-mile line from north of the Scarpe
to south of Roye, are pressing, the Ger
mans steadily eastward.
Every means known to modern war
fare are being used by the enemy to
stay the onrush of the British and
French, but the allies machine moves
on. Heavy reinforcements have been
thrown into the fray by the Germans
mostly in the center around Bapaume
The one desire of the enemy appears
to be to find a line where he can stand
long enough to make an orderely re-
tirement
Marshal Foch, however, is giving
the enemy no rest. There is no 1etup
in the allied pressure. and each day
fk1a -1%s
tended on the north and south. Each
extension is marked by further gains
adding to the peril of the enemy
center. which fights desperately to
prevent the British from breaking
thru.
Thru Hindenburg Line.
On the north astride the Scarpe the
British have broken thru the linden
burg line on a front of ten miles or
more, and continue their push after
an advance of three miles Tuesday.
They have reached vis-en-Artois, in
the rear of the Hindenburg line, and
have broken thru, or almost reached
the reserve line known as the Queant-
Drocourt switchline. The British here
are advancing on the main roads to
Douai and Cambria and before them
is terrain untouched by previous bat
| road from Arras to Douai, is only
eight miles from Douai. Among the
ruins and shell craters of the old
Somme battle field about Bapaume
the Germans are putting up a stiff
resistance. Bapaume itself is now
part of No Mans Land but the Ger
| mans are chnging to every foot as
long as possible. North and south of
Bapaume the British have made only
slight progress against the enemy de-
Tense. Great confusion is reported be-
hind the German lines on this sector
and the enemy is digging q trench
line to the east of Bapaume
French Beyond Roye.
French troops have moved east.
ward in the Roye sector on an aver
age OF nearly two miles on q front of
IL u miles. Roye. one of the princi-
pal points of the German defense
south of the Somme, apparently fell
to the French because Of the pressure
north and south of It. General De-
\ beney now is moving toward NesIe
which is but five miles east of his line
as 1t stood late Tuesday. The French
occupation of Hallu and the British
capture Of Vermandovillers OUTLAWS
Chaulnes on the north and south.