Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-09
GERMANS FLEE BEFORE ALLIES
 FIERCE ATTACK Score of Villages Are Re taken by General
 Haig's Men. MILITARY STORES
 ALSO CAPTURED Wherever Foe Turned to Fight He Was Quickly Crushed-Aus. tralians and Canadians
 fin Drive.
(AssOciated Press SummaryO

y The historic battle ground between Amiens and lMontdidier again is the scene of a mighty contest. This time the British and French are the aggressors, and under their fierce onslaughts in the first days battle they have penetrated deeply into the German positions over front of more than 20 miles. reaching from the region of the Braches to the neighborhood of Morlancourt.
 Germans Flee Before Allies.
 Following short, but intensive ar tillery preparation and aided by misty weather, the allied attack took the Germans completely by surprise. and they fled almost everywhere pell-mell before the tanks, motor machine gun batteries, cavalry and infantry sent against them.
 All the objectives set for the Aus tralians, Canadians, Englishmen and Frenchmen were attained ill remark ably quick time, and at last accounts Thursday night the allied forces were still making progress.
 Wherever the enemy turned to fight he was decisively defeated.
 Thousands of Germans were made prisoner. Large numbers of guns were captured, great quantities of war materials were taken and a score or more of villages and hamlets were reoccupied.
 In addition heavy casualties were inflicted on the enemy.
 At it's deepest point the penetration of the German line was about seven and half miles, eastward from Villers- -Bretonneux to Framerville. while from two to five miles were gained all along the front from north west of Montdidier to the region around Morlancourt.
 The fighting extended north of Morlancourt to the Albert sector. but no official details concerning it have been received.
 Cut Railroad Line.
 The advance of the allies in the center places them we'll astride the railroad leading from Villers- Breton neux to the important junction at Chaules, where lines radiate north eastward toward Peronne and south ward through Hove to Compiegne:
 The railway running northward to Braye was crossed when the allies took Framerville.
 We'll out on the plains and pressing forward, seemingly with great rapid itv the present offensive of the French and British gives promise of seriously meacing the entire German front from near the sea to Rheims.
 Saves Channel Ports.
 If the drive should proceed east ward to any great depth it cannot but affect the armies of the German crown prince now fighting between the Aisne and the Vesle and possibly make impracticable stand by them even north of the Aisne along the Chemin Des Danes.
 Under the pressure of the offen- sive the menace to the channel ports also seems for the moment at least to vanish.
 Already there have been signs to the northward from the positions where Grown Prince Rupprecht had formed his men for a drive toward the channel that retrograde move ment by the Germans was not im- probable.
 With the armies of his imperial cousin on the Soissons- Rheims sal tent badly shattered and unable to lend him aid when his own forces north of Montdidier are in'a rather precarious position, as result fthe new offensive, it is apparent that Rupprecht will have to defer his cam paign to cut off the cross channel service.
 Allies Improve Vesle Line.
 On the Vesle front little fighting re 1t rnussaiyh sxpt in the ro on the north bank, where, under an al- most incessant rain of enemy shells, both the American and the French troops improved their stands.
 The German guns not alone are upon the allied forces, but 1 (Continued on page six. 2d column.]