The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-14
Fall of LaOn Plateau
 Is Prologue to Total
 Liberation of France
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This may indicate the Germans have reached what is known as the Funding, or Brunhild line. This posi- ton, while apparently much less formidable than the Hindenburg sys- tenn, still is strong enough to retard pursuit by the Allies.
 The Funding line runs from Ant werp to Ghent, and thence to Tournai Comde, Valencennes, Solesmes, Guise, Bethel Vouziers, Dun-sur-M Mouse, and then down the base of the St. Mihiel salient to the Moselle, where it joins the old front running through LOT ratne and the Vosges to the Swiss frontier.
 French and British forces virtually have reached this line east of Cam brat and St. Quentin. British units are reported at Solesmes, while the French, farther south, are within four miles of Guise. On the Champaigne front Gen. Bergolit is five miles from Rethal while farther east General Gouraud has taken Vouziers, but has not penetrated much north of that place. Americans fighting in the Ar gonne region are through the Krem- hild line, but their progress there is very slow.
 Study of the tactics followed by the Germans during the past week has shown that they are following the methods of retreat used in the Marne and Somme salients in July and August. They. have held their Hanks fairly secure and have withdrawn their center. They have thus appar- ently escaped disaster around Laon, where military experts have said the Germans had delayed their retirement too long for their own safety.
 In the region of Douai, British troops are fighting their way forward against desperate resistance and in spite of numerous waterways which serve to hold up their advance. Doua' virtually is reached, while to the north the line is sagging off sharply to the east. Should Douai fall the British will be able to advance on Collencies.
 The Disc river has been crossed by La Fere, and they have advanced close to the north to the north.
 In Albania, the Italians have cap tured Kavaya, twelve miles southeast of Durazzo.
 Vladivostok, Sunday, Oct. 6-(B, The Associated Press)-An appeal tc
 the Allies to avert the loss of Samria and Yeketerinburg as well as to re
 vive the morale of the Czecho-Sloval forces fighting in eastern Russia, has been received here at allied head | quarters. The situation there is sai(
 to be serious.
 Czecho- -Slovak units which hay
 been fighting at Yekatterinburg, Ka
 gan, Simbirsk, Samara and Orenbur; are imperilled, 12,OOO Bolshevil troops having joined the Germans 1T , opposing the Allied forces in tha
 region. News comes that tn , Czecho-S1ova.ks are losing heavily and retreating along the northern front
 Ufa, which is one of the principa concentration points for Czecho-Slo yak troops, is threatened and its los
 would be well nigh fatal to the Cze cho-Slovak troops, at Samara. , With the British Army in France Sunday, Oct. 13-(By the Associated ' Press)-Reports received at British T headquarters from the French iron tonight show the French across tn,
 Disc river north of Origny, seven mile southwest of Guise. They are holdin,
 the railway on the eastrly side of tn,
 rived on a front of about third 0 | a mile.
 With the Allied Armies in Flanders
 Oct. 14-(By the Associated Press)-