The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-12
GERMANS STILL
IN FULL FLIGHT
Allied Troops Force the Huns
Back from Flanders to the
North of scissors.
SMASH RETREATlNG COLUMNS
British, French and American Guns
Cut Fleeing Boches to Pieces
Many Prisoners Taken.

Washington, Sept. 4.-From Elan
ders to scissors the British, French
and American forces are keeping up
without cessation their strong often
sive tactics against the Germans, who
all along the battle front are still
| giving ground, although at certain
points with strong resistance.
Additional areas of territory which
| long had been held by the enemy have
been restored; many thousands Of
Germans have been sent behind the
lines to swell the great throng al
ready there in prison camps, and MANY
Of the enemy's dead lying upon the
battle field testify to his heavy cas-
ualties.
no Shelter in Retreat.
Retreating columns of the Germans
have been cut to pieces by the British
| artillery from captured vantage points
before which the enemy was COM
! PEELED to pass unsheItered from the
fire Of the British gunners.
British Push Forward.
From the region around Arras south
ward to Peronne the British line has
moved forward everywhere since the
famous DrOcourt-Queant defense line
was overwhelmed and left in the rear
Eastward of the Drocourt line the
British now are nearing the Canal du
Nord, and Douai, VaIenciennes and
Cambria have been further encroach-
ed upon by English, Canadian and
Australian troops East of Peronne
the British line has been steadily
pushed forward. Numerous towns
and villages have fallen into the hands
Of Field Marshal Haig's men, among
them Queant, at the southern end of
the Drocourt-Queant line.
Franco-Americans Gain.
To the south the French along the
Canal du Nord are giving the enemy
no rest, taking the remaining portion
Of the salient north of Noyon, while
on the scissors sector the French and
Americans now are in control of the
entire plateau dominating the Aisne,
the Chemin des Danes and the roads
to LaOn and La Fere.
In Outskirts of Lens
In Flanders the British have pene-
trated the outskirts Of Lens, the IA
nous coal mining city in Northern
France, and farther north, in the Lys
salient, have taken Richebourg st.
Vast and established themselves on
the line of La Bassee Road and be-
tween there and Estaires, having cap
tured the last named place. Steen-
werck and Wulverghem also are in
British hands. Thus the great salient
is virtually wiped out.
Smash THROUGH Wotsn inc.
Washington, Sept 3-Over a front
of thirty miles, from the region of
Arras to Peronne, Field Marshal
Haigs forces have literally smashed
the German front
The southern portion CT the famous
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT switch line, that has
been heralded as the impregnable bull
wark of the German defense in the
north, has given way under the vio-
lence of the British onslaught over its
entire front from the Scarpe river to
Queant, a distance of virtually ten
miles, and Monday night saw the Ca
madam and English troops who carried
out the maneuYer hard after the de-
feated enemy some three miles to the
eastward.
Thousands of prisoners have been
taken from the strongly resisting
enemy, who at last accounts was
fighting violently as he gave ground
toward the Canal du Nord
Force Hun Retreat.
By this victory seemingly is ended
the menace Of the Hindenburg line to
the south, which the British are grad
ually approaching over its entire
front. Already thoroughly outflanked
on the north, and with the French
well upon its southern base, military
necessity apparently will require that
the Germans relinQuish the linden
burg Notifications and reaIign their
front from Flanders to Reims in order
to avert disaster at the hands of their
now swiftly moving antagonists.
Enemy Position in Peril.
Already the roads to DouaI, Cam
brai and st. Quentin are thoroughly
invested by the British and French
armies. while north of scissors the
French and Americans are in posi-
tons Of vantage from which to carry
out turning movements which viii
outflank Laon and the Chemin des
Danes and Aisne lines The situation
August War Bill, LIZA Million.
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