The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-10-19
EVERY STEP TINED
F O c h Calculates All
Chances and Avoids
Deep Pockets.
HOLLAND AL E r T
Much-Worried Little
Country Would Like
to Hit Huns if it
Only Dared.
HOLLAND AL E r T.

London, Oct. Is. The allied
march of liberation through
Belgium and northern France
made new triumphant strides
today.
Between the North sea and
Lvs it continues at whirlwind
speed. Bruges, Zeebrugge and
Courtrai were all cleared Of tho
enemy today, and between the
Lys and Lille the allies occu-
pied Tourcoine and Roubaix.
A concentrlc movement on
Client, the last great rail-base
west of the Antwerp Brussels
line. is under way. Already
Franco Belgian forces are ham
mering at the gates of Deynze.
eight miles southwest of Client.
But F'och. unlike the gambler
Ludendorff, wisely refrains
from plunging into a deep
pocket. even OH the heels Of 4
retreating foe. Having swept Il
vast area of northeastern Bel
gium clear of the invader, in
the greatest single days adj
vance recorded since his great
battle began exactly month
ago, he has found the hour rire
for swinging his center and
right forward again.
With the precision of clock.
work the British and American
! forces consequently were set in
motion again early today along
the forty-mile front between
the Lys and Sensee rivers. That
is the center of tie 230-mila
front from the North sea to the
Lorraine border. The Yanks
and Tommies at last accounts
were advancing along the
whole front, in the direction Of
the Brussels-Mons line.
simultaneously. the French
went forward between the
Serre and Disc rivers, where
the Teutons have been desper
ately hanging on northeast Of
La Fere while effecting their
withdrawal in Flanders. AT
Hauteville the French were to-
night less than five miles slight
~ southwest of the rail kew az
Guise.
The Lorraine front is now the pivot
upon which Ludendorff IL swinging
his far=finng line backward Down
along the sector facing Metz as far
as tie Meuse and westward to the Ar
gonne he has placed what Is left or
the Wanted guards and these have
orders to die where they stand, for
the fate OF the Fatheriand depends
upon YOU" But there. too. Pershinee
boys are slowly but steadily crushis9G
| ahead.
Antwerp Namur- Metz--that Ii the
line to which the enemy Is now fall
ing back. Liberation of Belgiumfas
capital IS belleved matter OF day4
The road to the Belgian capital u
being opened by the advance now un-
der way. Through the bottle neck
between Brussels and the Holland
border. Ludendorff Is extricating III
legions with feverish speed II u y
bottle neck because the RATS b6f0W
Brussels must be left open to tho
masses now beginning to stream baclf
from the Laon-la- Fere front
frkA orI~ tnA - N>N
cavalry threatens to cut on the Ger
man retreat through Client ara NOT
seriously credited because the buf1T
/ Of the German forces IL believed t6s
have passed beyond that RAN gateway
Huns Fear Holland. II
Besides the multiple military dna-
lgers attending this greatest retreat Ak
history, Germany Ii haunted by Z tGF~
Irible fear--the fear that Holland may
lenter the ranks Of the allies IN 49,
Eleventh hour.
4 There have been only hints during
the past few weeks, but thNy h&SN3
been strong hints. All the 4ot14s
knows tho chief factor that haG 6Ap4s
the Netherlands out Of the yIAx 10&s
freedom has been the mt1lenx3e IN
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had on the httie queendnyua Ii
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