Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-03
HUN ARMIES ARE PUSHED
 BACK ON SIX BAT TIE LINES
Americans Cut Off for Two Days Are Rescued but the Ground Around Them Is
 Piled High With Foe Dead

UNDATED WAR LEAD, (By the Associated Press) Again the Ger mans are in retreat on an important sector of the western battle front in France. The scene of the new retro grade movement is a wide front north and south of the Labassee canal.
 The continuation by the entente al lied forces of their brilliant achieve ments in restoring Belgian Flanders and expulsion of the enemy from fur ther territory in France from the reg ion of Cambrai and Verdun evidently has brought the Germans to the reali- zation that the great bend in the line from Menin to the 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 east ward, giving up Lille. Lens and DOuai and straighten their line from the vi cinity of Cambrai to eBlgium.
 On ali other six battle fronts from Belgium to Verdun the entente forces are keeping up their successful ad vances, although the Germans every where except northwest of Rheims have materially stiffened their front and are offering strong resistance to further inroads into their territory.
 In Belgium Flanders the wedge of the Belgian, British and French troops has penetrated still further eastward and southward from Dixmude, and only few miles more will be required by the allied troops to give them posi- tions by which Ostend. one of Ger many's sea bases, will be made un tenable, and indeed, the entire North Sea coast now in German hands put in jeojardy. British warships are viol- ently bombarding the coast and the Germans are reported to be moving their heavy guns eastward, fearful of their capture.
 Many additional towns have been captured by the allies in this region and numerous prisoners have been taken. The important railroad june tion point of ROulers is all but in the hands of the allies, while southward from Roulers the British have cut the Roulers-Menin railway at two places and are in the process of investing Menin.
 The French are in full possession Of St. Quentin and have passed on east ward The entire Hindenburg system between St. Quentin and Lecatelet has been completely smashed by Field Marshal Haig's forces, with whom the whom the Americans are brigaded, and further ground has been won in the outskirts of Cambrai and north of that city. At one point north of St. Quen- tin the British were forced to give up a village under a heavy counter att tack by fresh German troops A band of Americans who had outdistanced their fellows in arms were surround ed on one sector by the Germans but were released after two days, during which they killed many of the enemy who sought to capture them.
 Northwest of Rheims the St. Thierry massif has been captured and north of the cathedral city the environs oi Betheny have been reached by the French. The Germans along this front are in retreat to their old 1917 line and the French have reached the Aisne canal at several points.
 The French in Champagne and the Americans on their right have made further gains against the Germans in cleaning out of the Argonne forest and pressing northward on both sides of this bastion.
 In Palestine the British have occu- pied Damascus and taken more than 1000 Turk prisoners.