Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-08
TEUT0NS|N.
TIGHT HOLE
AS FRENCH.
MAKECA|N
Eremy Menaced From North
Sea to Swiss Border;
Take Berry.:Au-BaC:
Turks Hit Hard.
BY Associated Press.

The troops of the French Cen
eral Berthelot have delivered sue
cessful 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 capture of Berry
Au-Bac, on the north side of the
Aisne about 1917 miles northwest
OF Rheims and only. a scant five
miles from the eastern end of the
famous Chemin-Des-Dames ridge at
Craonne. A further advance north
ward across the railroad not alone
will put the great stronghold of
Laon in a pocket, but also will out
flank Neufchatel. another enemy
stronghold on the west.
The Turks also have sucered
serious blow in the loss to the
French of Beirut. capital of the
Vilayet of Syria. The occupation OF
this seaport on the Mediterranean
by a French naval division gives
the allies a base for the landing of
men who can operate in all direc-
tions against the Turks over the
roads radiating from it.
Talk Means Fight.
Although peace talk is still in the
air, there is no peace for the Ger
man and Austro-Hungarian armies
in the field.
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 a ''just peace" Marshal
Foch's armies are proceeding with
out pause on their task of clearing
Belgium and France of the invader.
And they are continuing to meet
with great successes.
While further good gains have
been made by the British east OF
Arras, where the operations have in
view the capture of the highly i'm
portant town of Douai and other ad
vances have been recorded between
Cambria and St. Quentin, chief in
terest for the present centers in the
fighting in Champagne and between
the Argonne forest and the Meuse,
where the French and Americans
are driving the enemy steadily
forward, despite great resistance on
positions Of high strategic value.
Disorder Apparent.
All along the front from Rheims
to the Meuse, a distance Of more
than SO miles, the enemy every
where has met with serious reverses
and is falling back at some places
in disorder, under the heavy pres
sure that is being imposed against
him. Where the enemy is trying to
resist, the French and Americans
are meeting their counter-t -thrusts
with splendid stamina and gradually
forcing them to give ground step
by step.
East of the Argonne forest, be-
tween that great wooded bastion
and the Meuse, the Americans have
further advanced their line notwitll-
standing the fact that the enemy
has thrown in large reinforcements
to hinder the blotting out OF the
forest and the forming of junction
by 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 Chehery,
northwest of Apremont and obtain
ed command of the heights west
of the Aire. The latest German
official communications report that
the Americans Monday evening be-
gan a new attack in this region.
Laon In Danger.
Taken all together the entire
southern front OF the Germans
seems to be in a rather serious sit
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