The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-09-06
ENEMY GIVES WAY
YPRES TO RHEIMS
Along This Whole Line Foe is
Carrying Out Retrograde
Movement.
HUGE FIRES ARE BURNING
From PerrOnne to Ypres Field
Marshal Haig's Forces Are
Keeping Hard After the
. Enemy.

Enemy.
The Germans are now giving
. sgpound over the entire 15O-mile bat
tie front from Ypres to Rheims.
Seemingly the question whether
the Germans will be able to hold
even relatively their presen. line
, from Flanders to Campagne is being
answered. And the answer appar-
Aently is in the negative.
The strategy OF General Foch
which imposed upon the Germans
! the necessity of falling back in Flan-
ders. Artois and Picardy, now like
wise is compelling the enemy to
withdraw from the Vesle river be-
tween scissors and Rheims, north
ward toward the Aisne in order to
avert disaster.
Outfianked on all defensive works,
= along the western part of the battle
line and In great danger OF a turn
ling movement eastward from the re-
s gions Of Noyon and Scissors, the
been forced to begin the retrograde
movement in the Soissons-Rheims
sector which the military experts
long had predicted would be neces-
stated through the Successes of the
British, French and American ar
mics.
~ The climax to the German ma
zneuvers along the Vesle eliminated
when the French virtually swept
away the last remaining portion of
the old salient in the region of No
lyon and the French and Americans
north of Scissors and along the
Vesle reached positions dominating
the Aisne and the Chemin Des
Danes and crossed to the north side
of the Vesle on a front Of nearly 20
miles.
All behind the front toward the
Aisne. huge fires are to be seen.
where the enemy is making his way
as fast as possible northward, in all
probability harassed by outposts of
French and American troops and by
artillery fire and the machine guns
and bombs of the allied aviators.
While the debacle In the south
seems complete. in the north the
Germans also are facing a crisis.
= everywhere from Peronne to Ypres.
|ield Marshal Haig's men are keep
ing hard after the enemy, whose line
Is daily being bent back further east
ward, giving the British better
Spoints OF vantage from which to
work in their task of regaining as
their first detectives st. Quentin
.Cambrai. Lille and Armenteres.
From Ypres to Lens additional towns
have been recaptured and the old sa-
lient more nearly reclaimed. Lens.
the famous coal city, is said to have
been entirely evacuated by the Ger
mans, and the British are only await
ing the dissipation of the noxious
easses and the rendering of the city
safe from the possibility OF the de-
tonation of mines in the subter-
ranean coal chambers to enter it.
From Arras south;ward:A to Per-
.sronnes Engltsh Scotch, ,SsWelsh, Ca
nadians and Australian, troops every
! where are harassing the enemy.
meeting his violent machine gun FIRE
with such irresistible sprsssure that
theSenemy hasssbeen svirtually nom
Dlused and has retired, at some
points almost sprecipitateiy.s =
Eastward of the old Drocourt-
Queant hne the enemy - has been
pushed scross to the east bank of
Sthe Canal du Nord, where at last
aceoapts he was endeavoring to pre-
vA' he use OF innumerable ma
ch- Guns. a British advance over
'-the ditch.