The sun., 1918-08-09
Canadians, Australians,
English and French Fall
Upon Enemy at Dawn.
RAPID PROGRESS MADE
Cavalry and Motor Machine
Gun Batteries Charge
DisOrganized Units.
MANY GUNS ABANDONED
New Drive, Coupled With At
tack at Vesle, Likely to
Force Wide Retreat.
MANY GUNS ABANDONED

LONDON, Aug. S.--Marshal Foch
has struck the Germans another stag
gering blow, this time with his
mighty left fist.
The allied chief. realizing that the
enemy, forces under the German
Crown Prince were still groggy from
the punch which knocked them out
Of the Marne pocket and that the
divisions borrowed from Crown
Prince Rupprecht probably had not
been returned, seized the opportunity
to smash into the Germans in the
Albert -Montdidier salient.
The German official night report
comedies the allied victory on the
new battle front, saying: Tho
enemy has forced his way into our
positions"
In the new Offensive. launched at
dawn to-day on front OF more than
twenty miles, the British under Field
Marshal Haig, and French troops
penetrated enemy territory to max
imum Of seven and one-half miles.
All along the more than twenty milo
front the Allies swept forward for an
average Of Ave miles, carrying all
their detectives and taking so many
prisoners that counting them was
characterized in a despatch from the
front difficult task"
Captives Exceed 1000.
In the House OF Commons to-day
Bonar Law. the spokesman for the
Government. said that the British had
taken more than 1000 prisoners ana
100 guns.
The new allied line extends east
ward from Villers- -BretonneuX 10
Framerville, where the biggest gain
, was made; and along the front from
northwest of Montdidier TO the region
around Morlancourt the Allies pushed
forward everywhere, the gain at no
place being less than two miles
In the centre OF their new front in
this sector the British arc now astride
the railroad from Villers- -BretonneuX
to Chaulnes, from which point lines
radiate toward Peronne, on the north
east. and toward Noyon and Com
piegne on the southwest
Grave Menace to Enemy.
The new drive by the British and
French constitutes the gravest menace
tp ha
Rheims and particularly to those enemy
forces In the angle marked roughly by
Montdidier as the apex
The German front IN France re-
sembles a right angled triangle with
the point at Montdidier East of this
angle. between Scissors and Rheims.
Marshal Foch Is now putting on the
finishing touches to an offensive that Is
believed to have left the Germans under
the Crown Prince all but PROSTATE.
The new blow. aimed at the Germans
under Crown Prince Rupprecht to the
north OF Montdidier. tends to isolate the
enemy forces around Montdldier, and II
Marshal Foch can drive eastward few
miles further he will have the Germans
In exactly the position they were In
when they pushed through 10 the Marne.
with chance to drive in on their fianks
A study OF the map indicates that
Marshal Foch sees an opportunity TO
create another pocket out of which ha
can again force a wholesale retreat
Paris Expected the Move.
The offensive southeast of Ameins has
been expected for some time IN we'll In
olIa he ltrn
in Picardy and Flanders suggested that
such a step was in order.
The axis of the manmuvre in the pres
ent attack seems TO be the railway from
Amiens to Ham. Tergnier and Laon The
battle may have great effect upon the
struggle going on between the Vesle and
the AIsnc. Failure to obtain reinforce.
ments to combat the Franco British
armies. II is believed here, may force the
German Crown Prince to retreat beyond
the Asnc, possibly TO the Chemin-des-
Danes.
II the offensive from Montdldier to
Albert IL successful and the army OF
Won Marwitz s forced to retreat tho
armies OF Won Huder and Won Eben.
| which are located between Montdidler
and Scissors, will be in danger OF
compulsory retirement.
Tanks Lead the Way.
| The new attack was started after
brief artillery preparation and with AN
| immense number of tanks leading tho
way for the infantrymen Preparation
for the attack were made under cover OF
| darkness, and so successful were tho
| allied concentrations that II Is believed
the Germans were unaware that a drive
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