The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11
GERMANS MUST BE
 KEPT ON THE RUN
 SAYS GEN. MARCH


 (Continued from Page One) from the defensive to the offensive, which is great military asset.
 we have the enemy guessing nov instead of guessing ourselves"
 From a confidential report General March read the following account of the situation on the British French front south of Albert:
 ~Allied troops found little Oppo-
 sftion, and have captured more
 prisoners than it is possible for
 them to handle, including n Ger
 man general and his staff, showing
 elements of surprise attack. Brit
 ish report their prison camps back
 of the Rheims so full that is impos-
 sibIe to hold more. Allies have
 captured all the artillery In this
 sector.
 Discussing the effect of the allied op- erations, General March said;
 Surveying the battle line broadly, you see there have been number Of places where we have been nibbling along the Vesle rivers front, acquiring a foot hold on the northern bank. but have not yet attempted to go up the slopes on the north side where German entrenchments are supposed to be. That part of the line has remained stationary.
 "As the line has become stationary, Foch has kept up his pressure on the en' emy, working on the perfectly sound principle that when you get an enemy going, you keep him going, never give him chance to recuperatei or think 1t over, keep on hitting him.
 ..On August a combined British and French force, commanded by Field Mar shal Haig, attacked on front of miles east of Amiens. This terrain IS flat, almost level, and while sometlIns ago there were small clumps of woods all of these undoubtedly had been lev eIed by artillery fire, so we can count that country as practically level with very little natural impeachment to an advance. There are few valleys per pendicular to the front of our advanc- ing armies instead of parallel to it. SC that the advancing troops can go righ through the valleys.
 '-The enemy were apparently taken by surprise and made no essential re- sistance in the center, confining their strong resistance to the Hanks. ilt- ting the big salient on 13-m1le front we pushed it in an average or eight miles, and reduced it from an outer sd- lient to an inner salient. That glves us a salient somewhat corresponding to the Marne salient, and places the en- emy in bad position. The advance oi the British and French at these points places them where they are II control or threatening, the railroad line of communications which at that poin runs up from the Montdidier sector te Chaulnes.
 Onathe Flanders salient the enemy on August 9, was withdrawing on tht southern sector of the salient, south ol Merville and British occupied that ter ritory The general effect of these movements IS strengthening out ths line everywhere.
 Answering a question as to the For ty-second division records, Genera March said:
 'The Rainbow division had it's com bat training in the Lorraine sector north of Luneville. It left that posi- tion to arrive east of Rheims. where l July Is, it helped break the main Ger. man attack. When the French Amer | ican counter offensive was launched i on the Marne salient, the division ap peared there shortly in relief of othel | units. Our reports indicate the follow | ing:
 Tn eight days of battle, the Forty second division has forced the passage l of the Ourck, taken prisoners from six enemy divisions. met, routed. deci mated crack division of the 'PrussilI 1 Guards, a Bavarian division, and on' 1 other division. and driven back tn, ] enemy's lines for 16 Kilometres"