The Mena weekly star., 1918-09-12
WAR SUMMARY ON
 SEVERAL FRONTS
Associated Press Sees Disorganiza- ton in German Ranks--Adyance
 of Allies Goes on Everywhere British at Canal Du Nord.

New York, Sept 1.-The British
 have driven home their push thru the
 Wctan line as far as the Canal Du
 kord and, as yet, their progress is
 not reported checked, says the Asso- eiated Press summary.
 Already the wedge they have driven
 into the German defenses in the sec tor between the railway eenters of
 Douai and Camhrai is menacing one to the enemy, who must stop the Brit ish on the canal line here if he hopes to save these bases-vital points in the German defensive system in the west.
 Disorganization in the German ranks is reported in unofficial adviees from the front, however, and there seems to be more than a possibility that the enemy command will not be able to reconstruct it's defensive for nations even in time to hold up the British temporarily along the canal positions.
 The main force of the British push seems to be in the direction of Cam brai, along both the Bapaume Cam- brai and Arras- -Cambrai roads, and in the terrain lying between these high ways. In this area they are reported today to have captured the towns of lnchy- En-Artois and Mouevres. This represents an advance of between 31z and 1 miles since yesterday beyond the southern section of the famous switch lines at Quant.
 Farther south the British likewise have reached line of the canal, we'll down to Peronne. on the Somme, mak- ing their front along this artificial waterway cover an extent of more than twenty miles. As a matter of fact, they are reported to have even crossed the canal along it's southern length, just to the north of Peronne.
 The menace to both Cambrai and Douai may be indicated by the fact that the British are within five and q half miles of the outskirts of the l former city and not more than miles | distant from Douai. At Inehy- En- l Artois they are a little more than two miles from the Bourbon wood position, where General Byng was temporarily anchored in his drive at Cambrai last l fall, making what was virtually his nearest approach to the city.
 In Byng's drive, however, the Brit ish approached Cambrai on only a narrow front, whence a German at tack on the flank busted them disas- | trously, whereas, at present the ad- vance is on far wider front and of- i fering no apparent opportunity for counter blow, especially in the present state of German disorganization from 1 the constant pounding the enemy ar mics have received all along the front from Reims to Arras, since mid-July.
 To the north, the Germans are still in retreat and the British have occu- pied additional towns in the Lys sali- ent. The enemy's reported retire. ment in this sector south of La Bas- see has not been confirmed, however, and the Germans apparently are still holding the greater part of the coal mining city of Lens. in this area, al- tho the British are understood to be in the western section of the town.
 On the French front, General Man gins army has made important pro- gross in the direction of the forest of St. Gobins, which defends Laon.
 His forces have reached the edges of the important Coucy-Le-C Chateau, and have pushed further eastward in their fianking movement to the north of Soissons.
 While the western front battle is in full swing, with the Germans hard pressed, news comes of an attack by forces of central powers on the center of the allied line along the Vardar river, in Macedonia. This move may be an attempted diversion on the part of the central empires, as it's devel- opment would threaten the allied base at Saloniki and the territory of Greece. The attack does not appear to have had important results, how ever, as the official statement from the British war office announces that the enemy was driven back by al counter blow.
 Postcards at the Postcard House that Hiltehrand huilt.-Adv,