Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-08-20
Germans on Three Important
Sectors of Western Battle
Front Are Compelled to Give
Up Their Positions,
FRENCH DRIVE BACK FOE,
TAKING 1000 CAPTIVES
Unofficial Reports Say British
Have Taken the Railway
Station on the Northwestern
Outskirts Of Roye,
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Ihe Germans on three important
sectors of the western battle front
have been compelled to give up posi-
tions of great strategic value under
the onsiaughts of the British and
French troops
In the lNs sector, west of Armen-
there's, the enemy has retreated over
front of nearly six miles, leaving
the town of Merville in British hands
Between the Matz and Disc rivers the
french have fought their way to the
western outskirts of the dominating
position of Lassigny and farther south
In this hill and wooded region have
debouched from the Thiescourt wood
and also captured the town of Pim-
PREF, situated in the Disc valley on
the Noyon- -Compiegne road.
Around the curve in the battle line
northwest of scissors the French from
near Carlepont to Fontenoy on the
Aisne, a distance of approximately
nine miles, have driven back the en-
emy to an average depth of more
than mile and captured several viii
iages and 1890 prisoners.
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Unofficial reports record the can.
ture by the British of the railway sta
Z ton on the western outskirts OF Roye.
one Of the pivotal points on the battle
front between the Somme and the
Disc.
The gains are anost IMPORTANT for
tllf ass's agisse gEans las.ts
OVER wfRcn the enemy has been COM
PEELED to acknowledge defeat the
wrenching tn the German defense is
becoming daily more noticeable. With
in short time they probably win he
forced TO commence retrograde
movement on scale that will mean
the entire blotting out of old lines
ana the taking up of new ones to the
east and southeast possibly from the
region of Rheims to Ypres.
Lys Salient Melting Away.
The Lys salient is fast fading away
under the attacks of the British and
the voluntary retirement of the Ger
mans to new defense positions east
ward and seemingly the big westerly
bulge into the allied line between
fpres and La Bassee soon must dis
appear.
Under the new gains of the Brit
ish around Rove and particularly
those made by the French from Las
signy to the Disc valley and north
west of scissors, the Germans now
are in bad predicament Here their |
positions are dominated by the allied |
guns from the west, southwest and |
/
retreat eastward. across the plains )
OF Picardy and over the Somme and J
even from the western Aisne will be |
neceSsitated
Germans Don't Admit Truth.
Inc latest German communication |
asserts that French attacks between
lne oise and Aisne delivered over a
wide front failed, but the French ,
statement is specific in annollncinp |
the penetrations of the environs of
Lassigny, tn cutting of nassae eawav
through the Thiescourt wood ANA tba
capture OF flmprez. That there has |
been hard fighting is indicated bv the |
British statement, which says that
northwest of Chaulnes the Germans |
succeeded in penetrating the British |
lines at several points but later were |
driven out.
On the other battle fronts there is |
little activity, except'in the nature of
artillery duels and patrol encounters
Additional American troops arrived
last week in Vladivostok to aid the
other international troops in their
operations against the Bolshevik and
German forces in Siberia