The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1918-09-12

us even after we have done all we
could to end the war. German lead
ers however have made plans to
carry on the war while at the same
time we are ready to offer the hand
Of peace.
Eight weeks to the day, and for
the hrst time the great Allied .offen-
sive of Marshal Foch is at virtuaf
pause.
True, both the British and French
on isolated sectors on the front ex-
tending from Flanders to the east
Of Soissons, again have recorded ad-
vances, but Wednesday witnessed no
such progress by the Allies towards
strategic detectives as past days has
brought them-before the torrentlal
rains turned the lowlands into i'm
passable marshes and the badly
worsted enemy rushed large rein
.orcements forward to stop the gaps
through which the British, French
Ind American armies were threaten
ing to filter and wreck his entire
military situation.
During the eight weeks that have
Lassed the allied troops have cleared
almost in it's entirety the enemy held
territory from the Marne to the
Aisne in the great triangle which
had Chateau Thierry at its apex and
S.0msons and Rheims respectively its
western and eastern anchor points.
| From Scissors to Arras the old
bluee westward to Montdidier and
ward the doorstep of Amiens y
all but been obliterated and the al
lies now are standing across large
portion of the old Hindenburg de-
fense line and virtually are upon the
remainder of it while to the north
in Flanders the deep salients which
| threatened the English channel ports
have bent eastwood and the enemy
is expelled from the vantage point:
from which he had expected ulti
mately to make his drive in an en-
deavor to gain the seaboard ant
thus cause a diversion of the trans
port service from England to South
ern France Until the rains begal
falling there had been no let up il
the allied offensive, Notwithstanding
the fact that the German high com
+ mand had stiffened its resistance ev
erywhere, discarding infantry unit
! as such, and training them into ma
chine gun companies and bringin
! up large numbers of guns of all cal
!. ibres to hold the aggressors back
Wherefore 1t is not improbable tha
? Foch, when the skies have cleare
and the marshes disappeared agai
will take up with full impetus hi
task of putting the enemy on hi
r,e,tle, and continue for the tw
:. Months of good fighting weather rt
naming If not beyond that periot
his efforts with his own now gres
forces to drive the Germans farthe
back toward the Rhine.
r'he British and French trooI
apparently are in hard race II
the prize of st. Quentin, forces
. 10th armies now being at equidi
0 tant points west of the city-tf
d pritish in the vi-Etrillers and Co
& ry. To the north the British in |
e cal operations have made furth
Irogress north of Eprey in the o
Is Grafton which has for its purpo
the driving of wedge midway b
at tween Cambrai and st. Quentin al
ir also have successfully sustained he
~ Wy counter-attack where the &C
f. mans are trying hard to hold ba
ht the British push toward Cambria.
ir North OF the St. Gobain Massif t
is French have made additional slig
advances, Notwithstanding the b
condition of the terrain and
1g strong forces of the enemy align
at against them in an effort to preve
ed the turning of this important po
it. tinE from the west. Heavy artillt
to activity is In progress all along t
i'd front and likewise on the sec
ed northeast of Scissors and betwe
lie the Aisne and Vesle, rivers the op
ny ations on which have direct be
e, Ing on those of the st. Gobain I
he est.
es In Fianders, the British have b
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