New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-10-18
HUNS BURN MORE
BELGIAN CITIES
AS PRESIDENT WILSON WARNS
GERMANY. WENTON ACTS
BAR A%RMISTIcE.
CITY OF RQULERS FALLS
FRENCH AND BElGlANS CAPTURE
600 ERicANS
CONTINUE ADVANCE

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
e. With The British Army in France,
Oct. 15.-The whole front attacked. it
now develops. extends for thirty kilo-
meters northward from Confines, the
iirit ssh holding half Of this line. There
are further evidences that the Ger
iualls are rctrealing from the Belgian
coast. Their stores are being moved
from Osttnd and Bruges. More fires
have been started by the Germans,
especially in ThOurOut and in the
neii hborhood of COrtemark, and great
clouds of smoke and flame now owe
the country for miles.
British, Belgian and French forces
attacked Monday morning on a wide
front in Flanders. The allied troops
are driving in the general dire tiOn OF
Client and Courtrai.
The attack seems to be generally
from Confines to the %northward. The
troops OF the three nations went over
TIE top after a crash" bombardmenL
only.
Taris.-French troops have captured
the town of Roulers in Belgian Elan
ders and also $500 prisoners, accord
ing to the official announcement.
In conjunction with Italian troops,
the French captured and passed be-
yond Sissonne and south of Serre &C.
cupied the village of Mo%nceau-les.
Leups.
Peace talk ~pervades the air, but it
armies in the field are concerned. In
stead of a relaxation in the intensity
of the fighting. new hostilities OF
what seemingly is a major scale are
being carried out by the British,
French and Belgians in Belgian Elan
ders.
With the French Army in France,
Oct. 14.-Laon, the last of the group
of natural obstacles forming the key
France. has been taken without a
fight.
Berlin.-Nish, the capital of Serbia,
has been occupied by entente forces,
the war office announced Sunday.
L.ondon.-Marshal Haig says British
troops have occupied Douai prison.
London, Oct. 12.-German troops be.
gan the evacuation of the famous
Chemin Des Danes in the region
north of the River Aisne and south of
Laon.
Fridays advices from the battle
front indicate it is virtually certain
the Germans will have to %evacuate
the St. Gobain forest almost immedi-
ately.
The famous Chemin DIES Danes, the
ridge which the Germans had believed
to be an insurmountable barrier to an
advance northward from Scissors. is
being evacuated. while in Champagne
and along the Mouse river farther
eastward the French and American
troops are pushing further forward
northward their lines in the great con-
verging movement which is fast driv-
ing the enemy from Belgium and the
greater portion of invaded France to-
ward his own borders.
The grip of the.Germans on north
ern France has been loosened and the
process of herding them back to their
borders is proceeding at an increas-
ingly rapid pace under the allied lash.
Already. since the beginning of the
July offensive, which initiated the
loosening process. the allies have
pushed the enemy back a maximum OF
forty-five miles from the Ancre near
Albert to the tip of the present An
glo-American wedge at lie Cateau.
All along the battle front the allied
troops are advancing. From the south
of Douai to the East of Laon the n
envy everywhere is giving ground east
ward