The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-10-07
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SUMMARY OF THE War

outfought by the French and Am
orleans, the Germans are retreating
on a wide front in the Champagne
sector between Rheims and the Ar
gonne forest. The enemy has been
caught between General Bertheiot's
army on the west and General Gour-
aud's forces on the east and IS re-
firing northward toward the Retourne
river.
1t may be possible for him to stand
back of that stream but it seems i'm
probable that there will be much OF
a halt in the. retreat until the Ger
mans reach the Aisne. General Ber-
thelot's advance in the Rheims region
has uraveIy menaced the enemy
forces south of the Retourne and. al
though the retrograde movement is
being covered by rear guards well
supplied with machine guns, it ap-
pears to be going on rapidly. he
French seem to have reached the
Suippe over a wide front.
American forces have been battl-
ina brilliantly with Gouraud's army
and have aided materially in expeli-
ING the enemy from the Champagne
sector and further east, the Ameri-
cans, fighting between the Argonne
forest and the Meuse river are slow
Iy clearing the Germans from the
area before the kreimhild line and
gathering their forces for an assault
on that powerful position.
ANOTHER RETREAT.
From the. region OF Lille south
ward to Cambrai the German retreat
be1Gn when Lens and Arnsutieres
awers abandoned last week, is eontin-
uinq with what appears TO be prseip-
itation. There is every reason TO be-
lievs that the city Of Lille would be
evacuated by the eneRy within q few
days and that his retirement will ex-
tend far down the front 30 the st.
and British are reported to be clear
through the Hindenburg line. $780,.
So far the German line from St.
Quentin south TO the Aiiette and
thence eastward TO Berry au-B Bac is
standing quite firmly and evidently
this part of the eneu1y's position is
being used as pivot for his armies,
to the north and east to swing to-
new positions. italian forces how
ever, have struck at the German
lines in front of Laon and early re-
ports of progress there would appear
to Justify the belief that the hinge of
the foes lines NAV be broken,
WITHDRAW FROM BULGARIA.
German attachments which have
been fighting beside the Bulgarian
army in Macedonia, are being with
drawn according TO an announce
ment made at Berlin. Serbian and
French forces are reported 20 have
inflicted a defeat on German and
Austrian units near the city of Vran-
je.
Unconditional surrender" is the
answer of the American press TO the
appeal for peace made by Austria
and Germany. Official copies of the>
peace proposals of the central powers
have not as yet been acted on by
President Wilson,. That the attitude
of the official Washington does not
the hope entertained by
the enemy that the allies can be in
duced TO enter into negotiations at a
time when Germany's armies are in
retreat and when marshal Foch's
naeterIy strategy is beginning TO
bear fruit.
So far as press comments reflect
the situation in France and England,
there is no disposition in those coun-
tries to consider the effort of the en-
envy other than new maneuver
which promises little more than
might have been expected from the
former peace offers made by the CEN
tral powers.