Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-10-04
ARE REPORTED TO HAVE RE.
QUESTIONED ALL MEANS OF
TRANSPORTATION
RETREATlNG ON WIDE FRONT
North and South Of La Bassee Canal
Enemy Forces Are Falling Back .
ALLIES Advance on Six
Other Fronts.

nounces that the Germans are
mander there has requisitioned
all means Of transportation, even
wheeIbarroWs and baskets, to take
away the booty. The newspaper
adds that the evacuation Of the
townspeople to Belgian towns near
the German border is being prose-
cuted hastily.
Paris, Oct. 3.-GeneraI Berthe
lots army reached the Aisne canal
at several points. The Germans
are retreating all along this front.
The progress Of Allied armies in
Flanders continues unchanged,
notwithstanding the stiEening re-
sistance of the Germans.
London, Oct. 3-Again the Germans
are in retreat on an important sector
of the western battle front in France.
The scene of the new retrograde move
ment is a wide front north and south
of La Bassee canal.
The continuation by the Allied
forces of their brilliant achievements
in restoring Belgium Flanders and the
expulsion of the enemy from further
territory in France from the region
of Cambria to Verdun evidently has
brought the Germans to the realiza-.
ton that the great bend in the line
from Menin to east of Arras is likely
to prove another such trap as was
the St. Mihiel salient unless they are
fast enough of foot to move eastward,
giving up Lille, Lens and Douai and
straighten their line from the vicinity
Of Cambria to Belgium.
Advance on Other Six Fronts.
On all the other six battle fronts
from Belgium to Verdun the Allied
forces are keeping up their successful
advances, although the Germans every
where, except northwest of Rheims,
have materially stiffened their front
and are offering strong resistance to-
further inroads into the territory.
In Belgian Flanders the wedge of
the Belgian, British and French troops
has penetrated still farther eastward
and southeastward from Dfxmude and
only few miles more will be re-
quired by the Allied troops to give
them positions by which Ostend, one
of Germany's sea bases, will be made
untenabie, and indeed, the entire
North sea coast now in German hands
put in jeopardy. British warships are
now violently bombarding the coast
and the Germans are reported to be-
moving their heavy guns eastward,
fearful of their capture.
Allies Investing Menin.
Many additional towns have been
captured by the Allies in this region
and numerous prisoners have been
taken. The important railroad juno
ton point of Roulers is all but in the
hands of the Allies, while southwark
from Roulers the British have cut the
Roulers-Menin railway at two places
and are in the process of investing
Menin.
The French are now in full possess
sion of St. Quentin and have passed
on eastward. The entire Hindenburg
system between St. Quentin and LIE
Catelet has been smashed by Field
Marshal Haig's forces, with whom the
Americans are brigaded, and further
ground has been won in the outskirts
of Cambria and north of that city. At
one point north of St. Quentin the
British were forced to give up vii
lage under heavy counter attacks by
fresh German troops.
Northwest of Rheims the st. Thierry
massif has been captured, and north
of the Cathedral city the environs of
Betheny have been reached by the
French. The Germans along the front
are in retreat to their old 1917 line
and the French have reached the
Aisne canal at several points.