The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-10-11
ALLIES ARE GIVING
THE HUNS NO REST
AMERICANS AND FRENCH TAKE
5000 PRISONERS ON
MONT BLANC
AMERICANS ADVANCED MILES
Situation Critical for Enemy.-Fires
Everywhere in Rear Indicate Fur
Their Retirement.-Roads Con-
gested With Fleeing Teuts
(War Review for October 81

(War Review for October -
American and French forces in theil
victorious advance on the crest OF
Mont Blanc, in the Champagne. cap
tured 1900 prisoners, according to the
Echo de Paris.
The Americans have made an adj
vance of three kilometers (almost two
miles) in the Argonne.
Nowhere are the armies of the Teu-
tonic allies being permitted to rest.
On the fronts of Flanders, France,
Italy, Albania and Turkey, the enemy
still continues to lose ground or is
being compelled to throw strong re-
Inducements into his battle line TO
hold back his aggressors.
Bad Roads Delay Progress.
In Belgian Flanders the Belgian.
British and French troops are still
driving forward, although their speed
has been somewhat lessened by rea-
son of the bad condition of the ground.
The enemy is swiftly evacuating the
salient between Armentieres and Lens
and the British now are standing only
a scant six miles southwest of Lille
over a front of about four miles be-
tween Wavrin and Equinghem, at the
former place having gained a position
astride the Lens-Lille railroad.
Cambria Soon to Fall.
Notwithstanding violent counter |
ATTACKS and line strengthened by |
fresh reserves, the British between ST. |
Quentin and Cambria have materially
pressed eastward from the region of
lie Catelet, and to the north have i'm
proved their positions in Cambria so
well that apparently this important
town soon must fall. Taken all in all,
the situation of the Germans in this
region seems to be critical and the
crisis at hand. Far to the rear aerial
observers report the roads congested I
with retreating troops. who are being
harassed by the machine gun fire of !
the rairmen AS in Flanders, fires are '
everywhere to be seen and it is evident {
the enemy, realizing that he must give
further ground, is vigorously applying {
the torch {
Around Rheims the French have 8
further extended their gains north G
and northwest of the cathedral city, ]
where they are all along the Aisne d
canal. To the east in Champagne,
American forces are fighting with the
French between the Suippe river and
the Argonne forest, in addition to o
holding their original battle line inside s.
and east of the Argonne forest. West Ii
IF fha ,r;t he o. OfU IA, "A
tanks, the Americans have taken the b.
important height positions of Blanc hi
Mont and the Medeah farm and press ia
I'd farther northward.
French Better Positions. 1
simultaneously the French have adj
'anced their front eastward around
and gained better posi-
ions for their operations up the rail
way toward Vouziers and in keeping
he Germans inside the northern -,
'ortion of the Argonne forest by an -
fire through the Aire val ~
ey, while the Americans press north
Yard through the forest driving the G.
nemy before them. The latest reports e.
re that the Americans have advanced A.
| III.
lie eastern side of the great wood are ~,
owly pressing northward. Through
ut this entire region the Germans are -
i'ioe' ah
Italian Cavalry Busy. the
In the mountain region in northern of
ally the Italians on several sectors fin
i've attacked and defeated the Aus ma
ians, while in Albania the Austro- the
ungarians are in fast retreat before tim
e Italian armies. Italian cavalry is we
orking far in advance of the infantry,
lrassng the enemy. The Someni ~
YER in western Albania has been
ossed and the enemy supply center
vaded =
In Palestine the Turks have been ono
iven far beyond Damascus. with the n,
'itish still on their heels marrying 70,
en-
More Peace Rumors- wal
Reports are to the effect that Aug end
a-Hungary again is seeking peace.
wing invited Holland to request the Me-
Iligerents to participate in negotia- Cha
ms. The Hungarian premier, who com
S arrived in Vienna with number poss
Hungarian statesmen, is quoted he
saying that the Hungarians "again rept
J laboring untiringly in the-.inter- if Il
3 of peace and we are already nego- jour
ting" prot
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