Arizona republican., 1918-08-12
ALLIES CONTINUE
 VICTORIOUS DRIVE
 ALONG WHOLE LINE

FRANCE, Aug. 1.-The allied forces , continued their victorious advance all l along the line last night and today, | pushing in the general direction of the upper reaches of the Somme. They l were smashing the stiff resistance in- terposed by the rear guards of the re- tiring Germans, the bulk of whom, ac- cording to reports considered reliable, | are fleeing in disorder. British cavalry | are reported this afternoon operating close to the town of Nesle. (Nesle Is | six miles southeast of Chaules) Many hours ago the British, French, | and American troops had reached, roughly, the old line held by the Ger mans before their retirement to the Hindenburg line. They have now pushed beyond in many places.
 Goyencourt, two miles northwest of Rove, is reported to have fallen to British troops four hours ago. Other British forces were on the front of Chaulnes- -Hattencourt and Villers-Les- Rove.
 The Germans are retiring gradually everywhere in the face of the fire from the British guns, rifles and machine guns. The Americans and British north Of the Somme had further hard fighting and with fine spirit pushed on toward Braiye. They have traversed the north ern spur east of Chipilly. and Etne- hem as well is in their hands. Gres- saire wood had long since been cleared of the enemy, the allied forces pass ing around the wood, which was reek- ing with gas from many pockets.
 Here both the British and Amerl-. | cans were helped on their way by tanks. At one place tank. contain | ing F volunteers, rushed strong enemy position. Scores of Germans were killed and seven officers and 200 men were captured. This permitted the infantry to get onto the line it was holding this morning. The Ameri cans in the fighting of the past 20 hours have suffered further casualties. principally caused by machine gun | bullets
 But their casualties were no more than could be expected among troops 1 constantly delivering attacks against the enemy who here put up probably the stiffest resistance of any along | the line
 considerable number of prisoners | were taken here. Ten divisions of Prince Rupprecht's reserves have been identified in the fighting.
 Large groups of prisoners. hungry, thirsty and grimy and appearing thor oughly disheartened, continue to ar rive at the collecting cages Among the captured were five regimental com manders and ten battalion command CTS.
 Late today strong enemy forces were concentrated east of Proyart and ap- parently were making preparations tC onnoca determined resistance The
 German object probably is merely tc l cover the retreat of the large emery forces.
 Allied airplanes renorted that long streams of enemy troops and trans
 ports were rushing eastward The enemy bombers also have been busy 5 and repeatedly were chased away by the British pursuit planes to prevent them from dropping bombs to hinder 7 the advance of the troops.
 9 The Germans were reported to b. retreating eastward. past Peronne 1T I the greatest disorder. Many were sait = to be without arms, apparently having . discarded their weapons. Among then
 were many wounded men staggering n along on foot.
 l Reports from the south received here k say that the French continue to pro l = Many fires and explosions are reported s within the German lines as their re
 treat goes on. Chsulnes was shroudet
 in clouds of smoke, shot with flames
 Among other buildings in the town
 the railway station was reported al
 having been burning for many hours.
 The German resistance thus far gen
 orally appears to become weaker a
 the battle progresses toward the cen ter. especially opposite the position
 held by the Australians.
 Tanks again performed tremendou
 services at a small cost to themselve
 all along the line. At one small towr
 south of the Amiens-Roye road, tn advancing French infantry sent word the British that they could not get O. | because of heavy machine gun fire 1ror the town.
 Five armored monsters went over an
 rolled directly into the places. Ihel
 crews discovered that the houses Wer = crowded with Germans manning ma e chine guns, principally from secon d story windows. One tauk leisurely ad n yanced upon a house while a hail n bu]lets splashed off it's metal hid l.. After reconnoitering at close range tf l. tank backed off and charged. It's gres r. weight crushed in the whole buildin " and it continued forward until tf r. structure was flattened out with u ye enemy machine gunnerS thoroughly e sd faced.
 m After the success, the four cOmpaniC d tanks engaged various groups of u
 enemy and the house wrecking machil " proceeded to roll down and flatten nil Ie other houses. This tank literal D. crushed tho entire village and all q )h enemy within.
 a When the French infantry, who hs to paused until the way was made cle ts for them by the British tanks, pr B. ceeded on their way met with no r he sistance Germans who had witness as it's demolition fled in terror. it's German prisoners have boasted tn de their forces now are equipped with nc he anti tank rifles, firing a large project
 at great velocity. Actual encounte
 demonstrated that they are comple
 failures.
 During the advance east of Roster,
 British cavalry sent back word tn
 they could not proceed because of hea
 fire from a woods on their front.
 number of swift "whippets" roll around to the back of the wood, but Germans saw them coming and ran 1 U their lives The cavalry then charg
 and the Germans were sabred rig
 and left and 700 of them surrendee
 That was only one of the enemy i
 stances where British cavalry has ma m- thrilling charges with the tradition try dash of the mounted forces. aid The battle is progressing at this he