Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-20
GERMAN ARMY IS MAKING
 4 MASTERY RETREAT ALI
 ALONG THE WESTERN FRONT
Allied Armies Have Now Req ched Holland Border and Have Bottled Thousands of Prisoners Who Could Not Escape Trap; in Some Places Stiff Resistance Met by Troops in Their Advance

emy is given no rest and may have
 difficulty in holding his supposedly prepared lines when they are reached. On the north the British, French and Belgians are approaching Ghent. in the center the British are marching on Tournai while the British. French
 aud Americans north of the Disc are threatening he important railway lines south of Valenciennes. On the Argonne west of the Mouse the Amer jeans have improved their positions near Bantheville. Unofficial reports that the Belgian coast has been clear
 ed completely of enemy forces and that 5000 German troops have been caught between the advancing allies and the Dutch border and the North sea- This force apparently was unable to escape southeastward toward Ant werp owing to the rapidity of the aI- lied advance from Bruges. Allied troops are reported near Eecloo. fif- teen miles east of Bruges and the same distance northwest of Ghent and also was approaching the Dutch iron tier near Sluis The allied troops in Flanders have regained 800 square miles of territory in the past four days
 Between Bruges and Courtrai the main resistance is somewhat stiffer than further north, but south of Cou- trai the British are advancing rapid ly from the D0uai-Lille line. The Marco river has been crossed east of Lille and the town of Chereng, eight miles east of the important junction of Tournai taken. From Chereng southward to east of Douai, the Bri- tish have pressed forward nearly eight miles on a thirty mile front in three days
 South of Valenciennes the British. Americans and French forces are wid- enins the wedge driven into the Ger man defenses and have forced the enc my behind the Jambre canal on a. wide front east of the important rail way center of Guise.
 The Selle has been crossed in force southeast of Cambrai and the British are approaching the formidable natu- ral obstacles of the forest of Normal guarding the Valenciennes-Avesnes railroad, the main German support line in this region.
 The French maintain strongly their pressure between the Disc and the Serre and eastward along the Aisne. There are some indications that the Germans are preparing for a retire ment from their positions in front of the Americans northwest of Verdun between the Mouse and the Bouit for est The American advance threatens the security of the Kriemhelde posi- tions on the left center of the sector. A further advance in the BantheyiIle region would further increase the menace to the Germans east of the Mouse. The enemy Saturday attacked the American position in the Bois De La Grande Montague, but was re- pulsed.
 President Wilson has rejected the request of the Austro-Hungarian gov ernment for an armistice. Austria was informed that conditions have altered since January when the president enuneiated his fourteen points and that any change in the Austria-Hun- garian empire must be made in ac- cordance with the desires of the Cze- cho-Slovak and Jugo-Slav nationali- ties.
 Germany. it was reported from Geneva, would dispatch Saturday night its reply to President Wilson's note. The reply, it was reported. would accept all the terms with the exception of that concerning subma- rine warfare.
 WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY OF VERDUN, Oct. 1s. (By the Associated Pressl - During the last few days the Germans have been shelling back areas reaching Yer dun. Montfaucon and other points to- day. They drenehed the region of Verdun with gas Friday and through out the night until nearly daylight shelled the town. The smelling continued at intervals throughout today.
 The enemy augmented his already strenuous resistance against the American advance by heavy artillery action today. This was responded to in kind. so that a duel of big guns was in progress all along the line.
 The German guns were active dur ing the night. especially east of the Mouse. where roads in the rear of the front lines were shelled intermittent- ly. One huge gun which fired several times at Ft. Douaimont was found to be mounted on a railroad car.
 There was hard fighting throughout the day in the Grand Pre- region where the Americans forced their way through to the southern edge of Belle joyeuse farm. the southeastern out post of Bourgogne wood and it's out-I lying defensive position. That portion
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