The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-08
FOCH MAY UNDERTAKE
 THANKING MOVEMENT
French Are Now Occupying Territory that has been in the German Hands Since 1914--German Offensive o' the Spring and Summer Has Beer Completely Flattened Out.
cBy the Associated Press)

(By the Associated Press.)
 Marshal FoChs succession Of ham mer blows along the German line from Rheims to Arras since July IS have HOW we'll completely flattened out Ile great bulaes created by the German .offensives of the spring and early summer.
 Further still the well co-ordinated prosress of his attack has brought nm to a point where he may well be anie 10 strike still more disastrous bow to the German defensive system m the west
 From Laon to Cambrai the tIinden- burg line stood all last year in the way Of the allied armies seeking to drive back the enemy from northern France and Flanders Little impression Was made in that line except tempOrarny in General Byng's drive below Cam brai last fall. Already in this sum mer's campaign, however, the line has been pierced on a wide front along its northerly stretches by the British and within the past few hours it has been penetrated in it's southerly reaches by the French
 1t appears that Marshal FOch's plan may prove to involve the turning or the line on bo,h of its flanks-at Cam brai and Laon.
 In the north the British have for several days been in a position to de liver what easily would prove to be vital stroke, west of Cambrai where they halted at tho Canal du-Nord and made no move toward driving noms the blow which thelogic of the sit nation points 10 as inevitable In the south tho aries of General Petain have now fought their way to positions where the left flank of tho hne is under their guns and the e.so of the defensive positions are besin- ming to fel the effect of the pounding In the wesetrn outskirts of the bas- ton of St. Gobain defending l.aoa he French already at Barisis in ad- vance of the line they occupied in 1917 and further south below the main bastion, are standing on ground whicr lhad not been in allied hands since Il914
 | Further north they are before Le- Fere whence an eastward drive would carry them north of the St. Gobar Massif.
 The French drive seems closely aimed at this Massif. which. apparent ly safe from capture from a front at
 tack, seems not unlikely to prove tho obective Of an encircling movement This however, may have to await tn,
 further refinement of the Germans lnorthward from the Aisne to the east
 Such a retirement is regarded as in Ievitable
 The process of closing in toward tn lEindenburg line at the points where i had not yet been reached, was contln
 ucd rapidly yesterday by both tn
 French and British The Brtisl
 moved forward at an accelerated pac
 below the Canibrai- Peronne front, an
 on that front itself they already ar
 close to the line.
 )l South of the Somme the Frenc pressed in beyond Tergnier and move Iup speedily along all the line opposit f the front between LeF'ere and S f Quentin On the Aisne there was IT - tie change toward the western part C y the front. where the Americans an q French are on the river, facing tn 0 Germans entrenched along the cana !, which parallels the stream. Furtne a east the Germans are giving up grudg 8 ingly the angle formed for the lin | trending off southeaatward toward lRheims offering particularly stiff op