The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-05
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated PfeSs)
 The Germans are now giving ground over the entire l50 mile battle front from Ypres to Rheims
 Seemingly the question whether the Germans will be able to hold even re- latively their present line from Elan ders to Champagne is being answer cd, apparently in the negative. The strategy of General Foch, which imposed on the Germans the neces- sity of falling back in Flanders, Ar tois and Picardy, now likewise is compelling the enemy to withdraw from the Vesle river between Sois- sons and Rheims, northward toward the Aisne, in order to avert disaster Outflanked on all defensive works along the western part of the battle line and in great danger of a turning movement eastward from the regions of NoyOn and SOissCns, the German high command at last has been forced to begin the retrograde movement in the SOissons -Rheims sector which the military experts long had predicted would De necessitated through the successes of the British, French and American armies.
 The climax to the German manen- yers along the Vesle eliminated when the French virtually swept away the last remaining portion of the salient in the region of Noyon and the French and Americans north of Soissons and along the Fesle reached positions dominating the Aisne and the Chemin des-Dames and crossed to the north side of the Vesle on a front of near ly twenty miles.
 All behind the front toward the Aisne huge fires are to be seen where the enemy is making his way as fast as possible northward, in all prob- ability harrassed by outposts of French and American troops and ly artillery fire and the machine guns and bombs of the allied aviators.
 While the debacie in the south seems complete, in the north the Ger mans also are facing a crisis. Every N here from Peronne to Ypres, Filed Marshal Haigs men are keeping after the enemy, whose line daily is being bent back further eastward, giving the British better points of ventage from which to work in their task Of "egainirg as their first objectives St Quentin, Cambrai, Lille and Armen- tieres From Ypres to Lens addition al towns have been recaptured and the old salient more nearly reclaim ed
 Lens, the famous caol city. is said to have been entirely evacuated by awaiting the dissipation of the noxi ous gases and the rendering of the city safe from the possibility from the detonation of mines in the sub 1 terranean coal chambers to enter it. From Arras southward to Peronne, | English, Scotch, Walsch, Canadian { and Australian troops everywhere are 1 harrassing the enemy, meeting his violent mashine gun fire with such irresistible pressure that the enemy l has been virtually -plussed and
 has retired. at some points, almost f 9recipitately.
 Eastward of the Drocourt -Quent
 line the enemy has been pushed
 across 10 the east bank of the Canal
 du- Nord where at last accounts he
 was endeavoring to prevent by the
 use of innumberable machine guns q | British advance over the ditch. To the north of Peronne, over a 1 eight mile front between Moislains
 and Demieourt the British at several 1 points have beaten their way across ! the canal and Wednesday night were pressing the enemy we'll to the east
 ward