Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-28
Germans Beaten at Every Point,
Are Retreating on Wide Front
in Picardy.
HA|G GOES FAR BACK
OF H|NDENBURG LINE
Foe Pushed So Hard He Has Not
Time 20 Make Orderly
Get Away.
BRITISH REGAIN STORES
Associated Press Summary ? D. m.

Associated Press Summary ? D. m.
Chaulncs has been occupied by French
troops this morning
German forces IN southern Picgrdy src
retreating over p wide front
Aftcr The capture ~ Roye hy The French
yesterday, the German front has crIrnbicd
The lines whch have held bark the French
and British for the past two weeks are
giving way, and to-day official reports
show the French on r. lfpe irss han tnrre
miles west RI The -omrqc river and raua
7 hlrty villages nave been captured
by tho French n the advance vhirh VAS
started early Tuesday morning thaui-
ncs ihe center ~ The German Inc hrf e~n
Roye and the ~onmc river AZ b A1w-
west through the battlefield has heen
captured and many other vital point
have been taken from thn retiring rnorny.
While the French have bocn sn3ghng
the enemy front along the Ihaulnc--
Royn line, hc British have swung fpr-
ward in he sector cast ~ Arras North
81 the Arras-C Cambria road they have
reached the outskirts of the villages IF
~aucoTt Remy and Boiry Notre Dame.
about 2 mile COST of thc positions whore
they were known ~ tie Yesterday and wcil
cast o( the fTindenhure line
South 1f the ~omme he British have
taken F0ucaucour' white north nt fhe
river hey have gained nearly an of rome
wood
II the Flanders area. the British have
advanced their Inc ovor front of iour
miles astrlde The \cilf NrrqUIn road.
This * the area from which the Germans
have been retiring for the past three wepks
Associated Press Summary .. n.
The great battle IN Picardy and
Artois continued last night with undm-
inIshed violence Allied troops, particu-
larlv on the northern and southern wings
Of the 81 miic inc from north ~ the
+. Scarpe 70 south of Rove, are pressing the
/ Germans steadily eastward
Every means known 10 modern warfare
arc being used bv the enemy to stay me
onrJsh ~ the British and French, but the
Allied machine moves on. Heavy re-
Inducements have been thrown into the
FRAY bv the Germans, mostly IN the center
around Bapalme The one desire Of the
enemy appears 10 bc find line where he
can stand long enough 70 make an
orderly retirement.
FOCH GIVES FOE 20 REST
Marshal Foch. however, IS giving he
enemy no rest. There IS no letun I'D he
Allied pressure and each day the active
lighting line ls beng extended on the north
and south Each extension Is marked hv
further gains, adding to the peril OF the
enemy center which fights desperately 30
prevent the British from breaking
through
ON The north astrldc ;he Scarpe the
British have broAen through thc Hlnddcn-
burg line on front of ten miles or more
and continue their push alter an advance
Of three miles Tuesday.
They have reached ls-en-ArtOls. lu
the rear Ot the HindenDurg line, and nave
broken through, or almost reached, the
reserve line known as the Queant-Dro-
court switch Inc. he British here are
advancing on ne main roads to DOuaI
and Cambria and before thcm IS Terrain
untouched by previous battles of the war.
Gavrelle. on the main road from Arras
70 Douai, Is only eight miles from DOual-
HCNs FIGHTING DEsFERATELY.
Among be ruins and shell Cratcrs nf
the old Somme battlefield, about BapaUme
the Germans are putting up q stlff re-
sistance Bapaumc Itself Is now part DI
No Man Land. but the Germans are
clInging 10 every foot as long as possible.
North and south of Bapaume, the British
have made only slight progress against
the enemy defense. Great confusion -
reported behind the German lines on this
sector ana the enemy ~ digging trcnch
line 10 the east Of Bapaume.
North and south Of the SOmme the
British press onward toward Pcronne.
They are approaching Combles, after
oyerpowering the Germans around Mon
tauban and in the woods Of the nelghbor-
hood and east Of Marlcourt. which gives
them possession Of the high ground
north Of the river. Dompierrc, south Of
the river and six miles west Of Perronne
has fallen 10 General Rawlinson men
The intervening terrain 20 Perronne Il
fairly level and open, but the Germans
are struggling to hold the British n
check
RoYE- CAPTURE Br FRENCH
French troops have moved eastward n
thg Rove sector an average Of nearly
two miles on 4 front 30 twelve and one
half miles Royc. one of he principal
points IL the German defense south ~ the
Sommc. apparently fcll to the Frcnch
because OF the pressure north and south of
il,
General DELANEY now is moving toward
Ncslc, which Is but FIVE miles east oi his
line as it stood late Tuesday. The French
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