Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-21
ALLIED CAVALRY
PASSES INF ANTRY
CHASING BOOBIES
Nearly Entire Division of Best
Hun Soldiers Captured by
Liege Troops Who Checked
IeutonS in Belgium,
BY Joseph w. Grigg.
Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publish
ing Co. CThe New York World)
Especial Gable to The World and AL

Especial Gable to The World and Al.
buquerque Journal)
On the British Front, oct. 20.--Tr
the center of the great Allied attack
on the Lys salient the infantry to-
day lost touch with the defeated, de-
moralized, retreating enemy. The
cavalry Immediately pushed through
the allied troops. and by afternoon
nad advanced over six miles. They
We're on the outskirts of Thielt. which
IS just seven miles from the vitality
important Ghent-Bruges canal and
| hardly score of miles from Client
| itself.
1t has been great day. and !
have had an opportunity of visiting
! the areas of the three armies en-
gagged. All of them were infected
by the great victory gained over the
Germans, but none more so than
King Alberts brave Belgian troops
who have fought splendidly.
Fresh Crack Division Captured.
! Nearly a whole reserve guards
division freshly put in against the
Belgians is now in a prison camp at
one place I visited today, and the
| Belgian officers proudly told how this
| division, one of the best in the Ger
man army. was completely defeat
ed by the Liege division, which in
! the early days of the war fought
SO magnificiently to stay the progress
of the German invasion. They had
their satisfaction this time and cap
tured the colonel and the whole staff,
| besides more than 1000 of their SOL
| diers.
This famous German division was
below strength because of recent
heavy losses, and is practically elm
mated now from the German divisions
by the captures made and the number
of killed in the heavy fighting when
engaged with the Belgians.
Everything movable has been hast
| lily withdrawn from the coast by the
enemy, but the great naval guns are
still there
1t is said that the enemy tried to
effectively block the entrance to the
Ostend harbor by sinking two yes
| sells alongside the cruiser Vindictive
1t is believed that they have evacu-
| ated all the larger vessels under COW
err of the mine fields and darkness to
Antwerp. All the wireless has been
dismantled and taken away.
Belgian and French troops have
| fought with splendid success on the
northern part of the new battle line
in Flanders, while Gen. Plumer's har-
dy troopers on the right have driven
deeper pincers into the German line
at a point near Courtrai. But above
| all else was the shattering blow given
to some of the best remaining di-
visions of the German army.
1t might be said that the Prussians
are willing to fight until the last
Bavarian is dead, judging by the alb
normally large concentration of Ba-
varian divisions in the Lys salient.
They fought well. as I have told in
previous dispatches. but before the
| impetus of the allied trops and the
unprecedentedly large concentrations
of guns they gave up such vital places
as Thourout and Roulers.
Allied troops advanced today over
considerable battle front, despite
| the heavy rains and mud. The Brit
ish crossed the Lys canal between
Confines and Wervicq.
1t is believed by many that Mon
days brilliant advance spelled the end
of town bombing activities starting
from the principal German Gotha
nests along the Belgian coast. for. to
save his parap hernalia. it is thought
the enemy decamped with 1t to safer
regions.
Pincers Are Closing.
The British advance toward Cour-
trai brings the pincer point down to a
menacing degree above Roubaix,
Turcoing and Lille. The other pincer
point on the south now points toward
Vaienciennes
Besides the great DISCRIMINATION
which is resulting among the retreat
ing enemy forces, he Is losing many
men through sickness occasioned by
the lack of food and shelter In some
places the food is brought up only to
points considered safe, and outpost
troops are suffering form food
shortage. This produces a fertile
mind for armistice thoughts.
Many of the German soldiers are re-
fusing to counter-attack because
they believe the war is soon to be end
ed. Prisoners of the Ninth and Nine
teenth infantry regiments and the
Ninth reserve division say these two
regiments when ordered to counter-at-
tack refused, and their officers were
unable to coerCe them.
Even on occasion the German some
times is facetious, for "Hindenburg 8
last reserve" is the name given to the
new army said to be 10000 strong, in
Guiding air mechanics, transport men.
telegraphers, muntion makers and a
large number of thrice rejected men.
Magnificent Perseverance.
The fighting in the Lys salient has
passed beyond the Undesirable she'll
holed and waterlogged areas of the
last four years fighting, but the trans
port arteries across the area attest the
wonderful perseverance of the engl-
neers, pioneers and sappers. Where
| the course of former battles made it
impossible to obtain solid foundation
! for roads, it has been necessary to
| lay miles of plank roads or corduroy
| thoroughfares which are accommodate
| ing vast traffic to the big battle. To
evacuate the wounded quickly, light
| railways have been constructed across
| treacherous country and today aud
| Monday the wounded were quickly
returned to the clearing hospitals in
| record time with no discomforts.
Some of these old shell holes and
craters which have been passed in the
| last two days would swallow motor
! lorry Wherever the roads give way
under the pressure of the heavy traf-
! fic there is immediate repairing ny
gangs of road builders.
Clearing Up Debris.
! Never during the whole war mas
| there been a greater scene oftactivity
behind the lines over the whole front
! than now. Far back of the battle zone
are German prisoners in ever increas-
ing numbers needing the roads, clear
| ing up the debris on the new war-free
! areas of the former Somme battlefieid.
/ Another army of Chinese laborers is
clearing up other areas. while thou-
sands of British road builders are en-.
| pape6 in tho mara i'm ediate work of