The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-10-12
ALLIES PEACE ANSWER.
ADVANCING ALLIES CONTINUE
BLOWS WITHOUT PAUSE
AGAINST HUN.
French and Americans Driving Enc
my Steadily Northward in Spite OF
Great Resistance on Positions of
High Strategic Value-Gains Made
on All Sides.

air there is no peace lOI lIIo dOA Aiic1iA
and Austro-Hungarian armies in the
field. While attempts are being MADE
in ..well informed circles" in Ger
many and Austria to SHOW
that the latest peace proposals OF
the central powers are honest express
sions of a. desire for t.just peace,
Marshal Foch's armies are proceeding
without pause in their task OF clear
ing Belgium and France of the lnvad-
ers. and they are continuing to meet
with great success. Likewise IN Ser
bia and Albania the Serbs and ltal-
ians are fast reclaiming enemy occu-
pied territory, while at last reports
the British general, Allenby, in Pal
estine. still was hard after the retreat
ing Turks.
While further good gains have
been made by the British 'east OF
Arras, where the operations have IN
view the capture of the highly I'M
portant town of Douai, and ether ao-
vances have been recorded between
Cambria and ST. Quentin, chief inter
est for the present centers in the
fighting in Champagne and between
the Argonne forest and the Meuse
where the French and Amerlcans are
driving the enemy steadily northWaro
despite great resistance on positions
of high strategic value.
All along the front from Rhelms u
the Meuse, a distance of more than oo
miles, the enemy everywhere mas n1e'
with serious reverses and is falling
back at some places in disorder, u1l-
der the heavy pressure that IS oelns
imposed against him. Where the en-
erny is trying to resist, the Freneh
and Americans are making tnalr
counter thrusts with splendid stamina
and gradually forcing them to give
ground step by step.
East of the Argonne forest be-
tween that great wooded bastion ana
the Meuse the Americans have fur-
ther advanced their line, notwlth-
standing the fact that the enemy mas
thrown in large reinforcements to
hinder the blotting out of the forest
and the forming Of a junction by way
of the Aire valley between the
Americans and the French troops on
it's western side. In the latest hght-
inc the Americans drove the Germans
out of Chatel Chehery northwest of
Apreme-t and obtained command OF
the heights west of the Aire. The Ia
test German official communication
reports that the Americans Monday
evening began a new attack in this
region:
Taken altogether, the entire south
ern front Of the Germans seems to he
in a rather serious situation from La
Fere to the north of Verdun. Laon.
the great storehouse Of the Germans
northeast of scissors, is reported TO
be on fire, indicating the possibility
of an early falling back; the Chemin-
des-Dames defenses are outfanked at
and the Germans pushed back more
than ten miles north of it. while
eastward General Gouraud's armies
and the American first army are
brilliantly carrying out their part of
the great converging movement that
seemingly at no far distant date will
force the enemy materially to read
just his line.
Another indication of the troublous
times in the German army is the re-
port that Field Marshal Won Hinden-
buSg has resigned, after stormy in
terview with Emperor William, during
which Von Hindenburg Informed the
emperor that a German retreat on q
large scale was necessary.