Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-27
Struck Huns A Surprise Blow North of Old Battle Zone
 on ...Scarpe.
'BRTTONS PUSH AHEAD
 ALONG ENTIRE LINE
Roche Will Soon Have to Leave the City of Baupaume
 Without Ceremony
(By the Associated Press.)

While the Germans were busily en- gagged in defending themselves , against the attacks of the British and French armies from the Ancre river to the region of Scisons, Field Marshal Haig early Monday morning struck another surprise over new front of the old battle zone.
 The new offensive was launched from the east of Arras on the Scarpe river and southward to the Cojeul.
 Press Forward.
 All along the front the British pressed forward at some places to a depth of more than two miles and captured a half dozen or more vil- lages, among them Monchy- Le-Preux, Guemappe and Vancourt.
 Across the Cojeul the new British attacks on the old battle front brought them to the villages of Mory and St. Leger, and farther south the small town of Favreuil, one and a half miles northeast of Bapaume, from which the British pressed on east. ward about mile
 Continue "Nipper" Tactics.
 Further south the British are re- ported unofficially to have reached the western outskirts of Thilloy in the tnipper movement they are car rying out against Bapaume.
 With Haig's men now standing well within gun range of the town it seems likely that the Germans will be forced to evacuate Bapaume in short order.
 More Gains at Albert.
 o) n1c made by the British east of Albert and on both sides of the Somme river
 In fact, notwithstanding the ef- of large endorsements to hold them in check, the British and French all along the line from Albert to Soissons have materially bettered their posi-. tions and carried further forward their plan of making the Picardy bat. tie ground untenable for the enemy.
 At Door of Rove.
 The French again are hammering at the environs or Rove, one of the strong points of the somme- Disc front, the capture of which doubtless would cause the giving up by the enemy of the entire salient from the Somme in the north to Noyon.
 FresnoyLes-R Rove to the north and St. Mard to the sonth of Rove both have been captured by the French, despite the desperate resistance of the Germans, and Rove, like Bapaume in the north, apparently is in danger of being pinched out of the line in an enveloping movement.
 500 Huns Captured.
 More than 600 prisoners were taken by the French in the operation.
 The Germans have thrown further heavy counter attacks against the French in the region north of SOis- sons, where the French continue their pressure northward in maneuvers which seriously threaten to outflank, the Chemin-Des- Danes and Laon sec tors and to put the entire German line from Ypres to Rheims.
 Push Huns Back.
 All the attacks have been sustained by General Mangins forces and the French even have pushed back the Germans beyond the points from which they started.
 The famous Prussian Guard has been thrown into the battle to check the French, but, as in their efforts agains the French and Americans in the Vesle sector, they met with defeaat.
 The operations of the British on the northern part of the front from the east of Arras to the region Of Bullecourt have Nbrough. them vir- tually on or very near the old Hin denburg line.
 Activity on The East.
 There is still considerable activity on the eastern part of the battle front in the Vosges mountain region where forces of Americans recently have been fighting.
 The operations however. continue of the nature of raids and smal! sur prise attacks.
 Several of the latter maneuvers have been put down by the French.
 There has been an increase on the activity in the Albanian theatre.