The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-08-28
ALL ALONG THE FRONT
GERMAN Line GIVES AWAY
Numerous Towns, Villages and Ham
the British and French-Rear Guard
Actions of the Enemy Only Serve
to Show Up Advance of the Allies
OBy the Assoclated Press J


Frenzied counter attacks by the Zoe
and French armies who are hard after
the Germans on the seventy-five mile
battle front from the north of Arras
to the region of Soissons
All along the front the German line
has given way before the pressure Of
the British and French troops at
points where the falling back of the
enemy or the capture of towns and
roads running eastward adds greatly
to his already serious predicament
from the standpoint of strategy.
Numerous towns, villages and ham
let's have fallen into the hands of the
British and French in the continuation
of the fighting and scarcely anywhere
along the battle front have the Ger
mans been able to do more than delay
mission to the German line.
Rear guard actions n.whch innum-
cradle machine guns are used also
are serving merely to keep the allied
advances slowed down as far as pos
sible while the main German bodies
make they way eastward in retreat
toward new positions.
In the region around Arras the Brit
ish are now well astride the roads
leading to Douai and Cambria and
further south along the Somme they
have pressed forward until they are
almost at the gates of Peronne.
Between the Somme and the Disc
the French have broken the backbone
Of the German resistance at Roye, cap
turing this pivotal point to an in
yasion eastward of the plains of Pic
ardy and advancing their lines north
and south of the town over a front OF
about 10 1-2 miles to a depth of more
than 1-2 miles at certain points.
North of scissors, the French, al
though the Germans are fighting them
bitterly, again have advanced slight
ly their line in the outflanking move
ment both against the Chemn- des-
Danes region and the Noyon sector.
Everywhere the Germans have los
heavily in men killed or made prison.
er and in addition the allied troops
1sdil AdNt Adplultu HliutlOuE guns,
machine guns and war stores. The
prisoners taken by the British from
last Wednesday to Monday of the
present week, aggregated 21000. IN
the fighting around st. Mard west of
Roye, the French secured 1,100 cap
! tives.
! The Canadian troops are fighting In
lively fashion between the Sensee and
/ Scarpe rivers and to them have fallen
numerous German-held villages and
many prisoners.
Bapaume, one Of the strategic points
over which there has been much heavy
! fighting is still held by the Germans
but the British are so nearly around
Il that possibly few Of the enemy re-
main inside the shell torn town.
The British on the west are in The
outskirts of the place and doubtless II
soon will be nipped out of the battle
line in the pincer movement that il
being employed against it.
i In the north the British already are
across the upper end of the old Hin.
denburg line and If their progress CON
! tinues they will soon he able to oper-
ate to the east of the line on unscarref
ground on which tanks and cavalry
can be brought into the fray witt
i good results.
i Behind the lines everywhere Frencl
and British airmen are harassing tht
Germans in retreat, but in this worl
4 they are being met by large forces d
Ienemy airmen who are fighting hare
in an endeayor to make secure tht