Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-09-06
Progress of Allies Is So Rapid
That Withdrawal of TeutonS
Is Assuming Proportions of
Almost a Rout.
HAIG BUSY HAMMERING
AT GERMANS IN NORTH
Successful ManeuverS of Brit
iSh Force the Foe Every
where to Yield Groundi
French Take 80 Villages.
undated Var Lead, ~ the Associated
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Prcss.)
The French and Americans are
driving the Germans out of their po-
sitions in southern Picardy and in the
sector between the Vesle and the
Aisne rivers. SO rapid has been the
progress of the allies--the French in
Picardy and the Americans and
French from Scissors eastward toward
Rheims-that the retirement of the
enemy has the appearance of the be-
ginning almost of a rut.
Meanwhile Field Marshal Hag in
the north, from Peronne to Ypres has
been almost as busily engaged with
his troops in carrying out successful
maneuvers which are only a slightly
less degree of rapidity forcing the
Germans everywhere TO give ground,
Haig's men again have made the Ger
mans taste bitter defeat on numerous
sectors and the end of the punishment
for them seems not yet in sight.
French Recapture Villages.
In the latest fighting in the re-
gion extending from the old Noyon
sector 10 Scissors the French have
reclaimed thirty villages from the
Germans: have crossed the Somme ca
nal at several points and are standing
only a short distance from the impor-
tant junction of Ham with its roads
leading to st. Quentin and Lafere.
On the south they have made fur
ther crossings of the Ailette river and
are fast skirting the great wooded re,
gion which acts as great barrier to
resist attack on Laon5 the Chernir
Des Danes, and the western Aisne dc.
\ fnnsessx thn nnenfs SeeEtfnglg ~ VS.
g. tk.,e INa
shortly will have been overcome anC
indeed the entire salient northwest OF
scissors obllterated. Already the
French. south of Fresnes. on the
fringe of the high forest Of Coucy
have penetrated the old Hindenbura
hne.
Fires Behind Hoes Lines.
All behind the lines northwest o1
Noyon great conflagrations are to be
seen, particularly around Jussy ant
Iafere, which apparently indicates
that the Germans intend to fall bach
as fast as they can to the old German
lines running southeastward from st
Quentin. The French and Americana
are hard after the Germans betweer
the Vesle river and the Aisne and fol
more than eight miles, extending from
Conde to Viel-Arcy. they have driven
the enemy across the Aisne and are
standing on the southern bank of the
river Eastward toward Rheims, al
most up TO the gates of the cathedral
city, the German line is falling back
northward. At the anchor point Of the
line in the vicinity of Rheims, how
ever, the Germans seem to be holding
evidently realizing that a retrograde
movement here would necessitate q
strengthening of their line perhaps as
far eastward as Verdun.
Franco American Gains.
In the initial maneuver to the re-
treat along the Vesle front the Amer
leans and French captured both Ba-
zoches and Fismette. From Bazoches
they moved six miles northward D.
Viel-Arcy, while from Fismette they
have penetrated more than three miles
northward to Barbonval, which is only
little more than a mile south of the
Aisne.
In Flanders the British have taker
the town of Ploegsteert and positions
southwest of Messines and northeas
of Wulverghem and repulsed strons
counter-attaeks launched agains
them.
Southeast of Arras all the way dowr
the line to the south of the Somme he.
low the Peronne the British have dug
more deeply into the enemy's from
on various. sectors, especially toward
Cambria, and Immediately north and
south of Peronne, in the latter regior
having driven in the enemy's real
guards for considerable distances.
The Germans have been violently
bombarding the Americans at Fra.
pelle, on the western end of the bat
tie front in Terrain, but have at
tempted no infantry attacks. More
than 5000 shells, many of them gas
have been sent into the American line
by the enemy.