Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-09-06
KEY TO H|NDERBURG
LINE WITH ALLIES
FEARFUL LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
THE HUNS, WHO ARE STILL
ON THE RUN.
What Was Believed to Be ImpregnabIs
5uIwork Of the German Defense
In the North Has Given Way
Under Allied onslauphts.

With the Army In France The
Huns are steadily losing ground and
the key to the Hindenburg line now
seems 10 be in the hands of the allies.
Fearful losses have been sustained by
the retreating Germans, thousands of
prisoners have been taken by the VIC
torious allies, while guns and NUM-
lions In almost incalculable lots have
been lost by the fleeing Teutons.
The latest battle of the Somme Is
definitely won-there remains on y a
little pressure to be applied until Won
Hindenburg's divisions are again all
behind the line which bears his name,
seeking to recuperate, If given time,
from the consequences of his mis-
carried plans.
Over front of thirty miles from the
region of Arras to Per0nne, Field Mar
shall Haig's forces have literally
smashed the German front.
The southern portion Of the famous
DrocOurt-Queant switch line, which
had been heralded as the impregnable
bulwark Of the German defense IN the
north, has given way under the vio-
lence of the British onslaught over It's
entire front from the Scarpe river to
Queant, a >..stance of about ten miles.
Already the roads to Douai, CaIhbrai
and st. Quentin are thoroughly in
vested by the British and French
armies, while north of Scissors the
French and Americans are in positions
of vantage from which they carry out
turning movements which will 0uthank
Laon and the Chemin-desD Danes and
Aisne lines. The situation of the
enemy, viewed from the war maps, is
the most perllous he has yet been In.
Added to the troubles of the German
high command Is the situation that Is
fast developing in Flanders, in the re-
gion around Ypres, where the Germans
daily are being forced out of their po-
sltions by the British and American
troops. All over this sector steady
progress is being made eastward n the
blottIng out Of the salient that has long
existed there. The Americans, Who
took Voormezeele Sunday, now are
well into the region east of the town,
having overcome the strong resistance
of the Germans who endeavored to bar
their way. A few more strides of
Halg's men in this region and Armen-
there's will be within striking distance.
After Armentieres 1t Is but step to
Lille.
Hard fighting has been In progress
between the British and Germans
around Peronne, where the Australians
successfully wlthstood violent attacks
and have taken several thousand pris-
oners Between Peronne and Bapaume
the Germans also have imposed strong
opposition to the British, but the st
Pierre Vast wood, LeTransloy and Al
LANES and Haut-AlIaines all have been
successfully carried.
Huge fires which were seen in the
| direction of Vauxnill0n, northeast OF
Scissors, indicated that the enemy was
burning his supplies. There Is said tC
be nothing else lnfiammable In that
| region.
The American advance In the last few
days has brought many thrilling in
stances, Our artillery received con
ordinations for Its work for following
the infantry closely and firing point
blank into the pestiferous German
machine gun position. Our seventy
fives got so close that the gun crews
captured the fleeing Germans.