Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-08-21
Gain Of Two Miles on Fifteen
Mile Front Made in Sector
Between Disc and AiSner
Following Sundays Push,
GERMAN GRIP ON R0YE
DlMINISHES HOURLY
Enemy Launches Desperate
Counter Attacks Against the
British in Picardy Which
Are Everywhere Put Down.
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Press


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From Scissors to the Belgian bor
der the German armies in various
important sectors are being put to
the test by the French and British.
And it is a test that seemingly BODIES
i'll for the Teutonic arms, for no
where have they been able to sus-
tain the shock
Northwest of scissors from the
Aisne to the Disc, north of the Disc
to the region around Roye; in the
Arras sector and northward on the
famous Lys salient the Germans ev-
erywhere have been compelled to fall
back under the pressure of the
French and British troops,
French Thrust Forward.
In a new offensive launched by
the French General Mangin over a
front of approximately fifteen and a
half miles, from Bailly on the Oise
to the Aisne near scissors, the
French in bitter fighting have car
red forward their line to an average
depth of two and half miles and
in the first phases OF the battle had
turned to French possession numer-
Gus enemy-held villages and farms
In addition more than 5000 Germans
had been herded behind the line,
prisoners.
At last reports Mangins men were
still hard after the enemy and un-
official accounts placed the French
on various sectors well in advance
of the positions outlined in the
French afficial communication.
taIpsan Resistance stnpi
Along the Scarpe east of Arras
Field Marshal Haig's forces have
kept up their harassing tactics
against the enemy, who has been
compelled to fall back eastward
along the Scarpe river. The Ger
mans resisted vigorouslyfi but all to
no purpose and the British advanced
their lines to the east of the viii
lage of FampouX. Although Haig
claims only a slight forward move
ment, here, particular significance at
taches to it by reason of the fact
that the Germans have been driven
back until they are virtually upon
the old battle line as it stood in
December, 1917.
Northward, the Lys salient again
has been narrowed down by the OPP
erations of the British who, north OF
Merville, have taken the villages of
Vierhoek and La Couronne. and also
reached the hamlet of LEpinnette,
This gain represents a forward move
ment of about a mile and a half,
and places the British astrde the
road running southeastward to Es-
taires.
Big Retreat Imminent
The new victories of the allies are
highly important. The advance of
the French northwest of Scissors,
taken in conjunction with the sue
cessful maneuvers on the Lassingny
sector, and couth of Roye, where
Beuvralgnes has been captured,
seemingly means that the enemy
forces from the Somme to the Disc
soon must give up their positions
and retreat eastward.
1t is not improbable Noyon Is well
outflanked on the south and south
east, and the German line is none
too secure north of scissors. that the
enemy will be under the. necessity
of moving his troops northward from
the Vesle toward, if not across. the
Aisne.
Enemy Hard Pressed.
The Germans are stubbornly con-
testing with the British points of
vantage on the line south Of the
Somme near Chaulnes and north OF
Roye, which are still in German
hands and which are the 4keystones
to the enemy's refense line. With
the capture of Beuvraignes by the
French, Roye apparently is on the
eve of falling, and with its fall
doubtless the entire line northward
to the Somme also will give way.
The Germans in the Merville sec