The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-30
ALLIES CONTINUE GAINS
GERMANS IN DIRE Peril
Continue to Crumble Before the Allied
Attack: Old Hindenburg Line now
Well 0utfanked: Desperate Resist
ance Being Offered.

The Germans facing the allied for
ces from Arras to Scissors everywhere
are in dire peril. On almost every sec.
tor of the battle front the enemy line
continues to crumble before the allied
attack, Notwithstanding the violence
borne of desperation, of the counter
offensive tactics.
Near Arras the old Hindenburg line
is now well outfanked; from the
Scarpe to the Somme the hostile line
gradually is falling back, whie from
the south of the Somme toSoissons, the
enemy front has literally been smash
ed and the German posts apparently
are caught in two distinct traps, es-
cape from which without heavy losses
in men made prisoner and guns and
material seems almost impossible of
achievement. Scores Of additional
towns have been captured by the Brit
ish, French and American troops, the
Americans having entered the fray
with the French northeast Of Scissors,
whilea II Of the old German salients in
the allied lines now have been fiatten-
ed out and these lines themselves have
dug deeply into the enemy's terrain.
The first trap in which the enemy
finds himself is the triangle formed
by the sharp curve of the Somme river
with Peronne the apex and with Curlu
on the Somme and Fresnes, respective
ly, its northern and southern bases.
This triangle Is little more than three
miles deep and six miles wide, and in
it the Germans are fighting with their
backs toward the Somme on both the
north and the east.
Desperate resistance is being Of
fered by the enemy in order that his
men may have time to reach ahavenof
safety across the stream, but British
are hard after their quarry. and with
tine French liItle 70 tlie south almost
ur 10 the river TO and tincrn-by ar Uuu-
Ranking movement, it would seem that
The odds are heavily against the Ger
mans.
1t was the French troops who sprung
the trap. With the fall Of Chaulnes
the French forces routed the enemy
over a front of about 10 miles and pen
etrated the region to a depth at some
points of nearly seven miles. From
the north of Chaulnes to Nesle thepen-
etration of the French reached the
heights on the left bank of the Somme;
southwark the advance left the
French along the Canal du Nord at
various points between Nesle and the
outskirts of Noyon and the entire re-
gion between Sesle and scissors now
are in great pocket and with the
French pincers working hard to close
upon it.
The Americans are fighting with
the French northwest of scissors in
the operation which has in view the
blotting out of the Noyon sector and
the outfanking of the Aisne and the
old Chemin des Danes positions. Of
fetal reports have the American and
French fighting violently with the en-
emy around Juvigny and Chavigny,
where they have gained some ground.
The Americans successfully sustained
several heavy counter-attacks in this
region.
The Americans and the Germans al
so are engaged in bitter battle around
Bazooches and Fismette on the Vesle.
The Germans endeavored to ford the
Vesle south of Bazooches, but were
held by the Americans. Likewise an
enemy assault against Fismette was
stopped. The German official commu-
nication asserts that the Americans
have suffered heavy losses and lost
more than $50 prisoners in the battle
along the Vesle.