Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-08
French Capture Barry au Bac,
Northwest Of Rheims, CauS-
ing a Further Weakening of
Entire Line of Foe,
BEIRUT, SEAPORT TOWN,
IN HANDS OF BRITISH
Turks in Syria Are in a Sorry
Plight as They Lost Import
ant Mediterranean Base; Al
Ienby Also Makes Gains,

The troops Of the French General
Bertholot have delivered a successful
blow against the Germans northwest
of Rheims which adds materially to
the menace that is hanging over the
German front from the North Sea to
the Swiss border. This was the cap
ture of Berry Au Bac. on the north
side of the Aisne about ten and a
half miles northwest of Rheims and
a scant five miles from the eastern
end of the famous Chemin Des Danes
ridge at Craonne. A further advance
northward across the railroad not
alone put the great stronghold OF
l.aon in a pocket, but will also out
flank NeufchateI, another enemy
stronghold on the west
The Turks have suffered a serious
blow in the loss to the French of
Beirut The occupation of this sea-
port on the Mediterranean by d
French naval division gives the al
les a base for the landing of men
WIZ Ntlli uINihlN III All WI tAAibllN
against the Turks over the roads
radl1ting from il.
Germans Ecaten Eycrywhcrc.
While attempts are being made in
well informed circles in Germany
and Austria to show that the latest
peace proposals of the central pow
ers are honest expressions of de-
sire for Just peace" Marshal
Foch's armies are preceding with
out pause in their task OF clearing
Belgium and France of the invader
And they are continuing to meet
with great success. Likewise in Ser
bia and Albania the Serbs ana Ital-
ians are fast reclaiming enemy oc-
cupied Tertiary while at last re-
ports the British General Allenby in
Palestine still was hard after the re-
trating Turks.
While further good gains have been
made by the British east of Arras
where the operations have in view
the capture of the highly important
town of Douai and other advances
have been recorded between Cam
brai and st. Quentin, chief interest
for the present centers in the fight
ing in Champagne and between the
Argonne forest and the Meuse, where
the French and the American are
driving the enemy steadilyA north
ward, despite great resistance Non po-
sitions of strategic value.
All along the front from Rheims
to the Meuse, distance Of more than
fifty miles. the enemy everywhere
has met with serious reverses and Is
falling back ut some places In dis
order, under the heavy pressure that
Is being imposed against him. Where
the enemy IS trying to resist, the
French and Americans are meeting
their counter-thrusts with splendid
stamina and gradually forcing them
to give ground stey by step.
Americans Advancing.
East of the Argonne forest. be-
tween that great wooded bastion and
the Meusc the Americans have furth
er advanced their line nothwith-
standing the fact that the enemy has
thrown in large reinforcements to
hinder the bOtting' out of the forest
and the forming of a junction by the
way of the Aire valley between the
Americans and the French troops,
on its western side. In the latest
fighting the Americans drove the
Germans out Of Chatel Chenery.
northwest of Apremont and obtained
command of the heights west of the
Aire. The latest German official
communication reports that the
Americans Monday evening began a
new attack in this region.
Taking altogether the entire south
ern front Of the Germans seems to be
in a rather serious situation from La
Fore to the north of Verdun Laon,
the great storehouse of the Germans
northeast Of scissors, is reported to
be on fire. indicating the possibility
ofan early falling back; the Chemin
Des Danes defenses are outflanked
at both ends Rheims has been re-
stored and the Germans pushed back
more than ten miles north Of it,
while eastward General Gourauds
armies and the American first army
are brilliantly carrying out their part
of the great converging movement
that seemingly at no far distant date
will force the enemy materially to
readiust his line.
A further Indication of the troubl-
Gus times in he German army is the
report that Field Marshal Won Hin
Genburg has resigned after a stormy
Interview with Emperor william dur
ling which Won Hindenburg informed
the emperor that German retreat
on a large scale was necessary.