Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-08-28
Frenzied Counter Attacks of
Foe Fail to Halt Forward
Sweep of Franco-Br
Along 75-miIe Front,
ENGLISH APE ALMOST
AT GATES OF PERONNE
French Take Roye and ADJ
vance Their Lines More
Than 2 1-2 Miles at Points,
German Losses Heavy
UNDATED War Lead. by the Associated
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PPess.)
Fren2ied counter attacks by the foe
have failed to hold back the British
and French armies who are hard after
the Germans on the seventy-five- mile
battle front from the north of Arras
to the region of scissors.
All along the front the German line
has given way before the pressure of
the British and French troops at
points where the falling back of the
enemy or the capture of towns and
roads running eastward adds greatly
to his already serious predicament
from the standpoint of strategy
Numerous towns, villages and ham
let's have fallen into the hands of the
British and French in the continual
ton of the fighting, and scarcely any
where along the battle front have the
Germans been able to do more than
delay the allies when they knock for
admittance to the German line. Rear
guard actions in which innumerable
machine guns are used also are serv-
ing merely to keep the allied advance
slowed down as far as positive, winle'
the main German armies make their
wav eastward in retreat toward new
positions.
British Are Near Peronne.
In the region around Arras the
British are now well astride the roads
leading to Doua and Cambria and
further south along the Somme they
have pressed forward until they are
almost at the gates of Peronne.
Between the Somme and the OiseI
the French have broken the backbone
of the German resistanc at Roye, cap4l
turing this pivotal point to an inva-
sion eastward of the plains of Picardy
and advancing their lines north and
south of the town over front of about
twelve and q half miles, to a depth of
more than two and half miles at GER
tain points. North of scissors theI
French again have advanced slightly
their line in the outflanking move
ment, both against the Chemin Dea
Danes region and the Noyon sector.
Grmans Lose Heavily.
Everywhere the Germans have lost
heavily in men killed or made prisoner
and in addition, the allied troops again
have captured numerous guns, ma !
chine guns and war stores. The pris- |
oners taken by the British from last
Wednesday to Monday of the present
week aggregated $1,000, In the fight
ing Tuesday around ST. Mard west Of
Roye, the French secured 1,100 cap
tiVes.
The Canadian troops are fighting in
lively fashion between the Sensee and
Scarpe rivers, and to them have fallen
numerous German held villages and
many prisoners.
Bapaume, one of the strategic points
over which there has been much
heavy fighting, is still held by the
Germans, but the British are now sol
. hot ~
the enemy remain inside the she'll |
torn town. The British on the west
are on the outskirts of the place, and
doubtless it soon will be nipped ou
of the battle line in the pincer movb- |
ment that is being employed against
It,
Airmen Harass Enemy.
In the north the British already are
across the upper end of the old Hin
denburg line and if their progress con-
tinues they soon will be able to oper-
ate to the east of the line on unscarred |
ground on which tanks and cavalry
can be brought into the fray with
good rsults
Behind the lines everywhere French
and British airmen are harassing the
Germans in retreat, but in this work
they are being met by large forces OF
enemy airmen, who are fighting hard
in an endeavor to make secure the
retrograde movement of their foot
soldiers.
On the Vesle front. the Americans
and Germans are in a rather bitter
fight in the towns of Fismette and
Bazoches,, The Americans started the
trouble at Bazoches and the Germans
reciprocated with an attack on Fis-
mette. At last accounts the Americans
had the upper hand in both places.