The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-10
KEY TO H|NDERbURG
LINE WITH ALLIES
FEARFUL LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
THE HUNS, WHO ARE STILL
ON THE RUN.
What Was Believed to Be ImpregnabIs
Bulwork of the German Defense
in the North Has Given Way
Under Allied onslaughts.

With the Army in France-Th,
Huns are steadily losing ground ant
the key to the Hindenburg line nov
seems to be in the hands of the allies
Fearful losses have been sustained BY
the retreating Germans, thousands, Of
prisoners have been taken by the vic
torious allies, while guns and mum
tons in almost incalculable lots have
been lost by the fleeing Teutons.
The latest battle of the Somme is
definitely wOn-there remains only q
little pressure to be applied until Won
Hindenburg's divisions are again all
behind the line which bears his name,
seeking to recuperate, If given time,
from the consequences Of his mis-
carried plans.
Over a front of thirty miles from the
region of Arras to Peronne, Field Mar
shall Haig's forces have literally
smashed the German front.
The southern portion of the famous
Drocourt-Queant switch line, which
had been heralded as the impregnable
bulwark of the German defense in the
north, has given way under the vio-
lence of the British onslaught over its
entire front from the Scarpe river to
Queant, a 4.stance Of about ten miles.
Already the roads to Douai, Cambria
and st. Quentin are thoroughly In.
vested by the British and French
armies, while north Of Scissors the
French and Americans are in positions
OF vantage from which they carry out
turning movements which will outflank
LaOn and the Observation-Disclosures and
Aisne lines. The situation Of the
enemy, viewed from the war maps, is
the most perilous he has yet been in.
Added to the troubles of the German
high command is the situation that is
fast developing in Flanders, in the re-
gion around Ypres, where the Germans
daily are being forced out Of their po-
sitions by the British and American
troops. All over this sector steady
progress is being made eastward in the
plotting out of the salient that has long
existed there. The Americans, who
took fVoormezeele Sunday, now are
well into the region east of the town,
having overcome the strong resistance
Of the Germans who endeavored to bar
their way. A few more strides Of
Haig's men in this region and Armen-
tieres will be within striking distance.
After Armentieres it is but step to
Lille.
Hard fighting has been in progress
between the British and Germans
around Peronne, where the Australians
withstood violent attacks
md have taken several thousand pris-
,ners. Between Peronne and Bapaume
he Germans also have imposed strong
opposition to the British, but the st.
Pierre Vast wood, LeTransloy and AL
aines and Haut-Allaines all have been
carried.
Huge fires which were seen in the
Erection of Vauxaillon, northeast Of
indicated that the enemy was
his supplies. There is said to
re nothing else inflammable in that
egion.
The American advance in the last few
avs has brought many thrilling in
tances. Our artillery received con-
for it's work for following
no infantry closely and firing point
lank into the pestiferous German
lachine gun position. Our seventy
YES got so close that the gun crews
aptured the fleeing Germans.