The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-06
have OCCUPIED
OLD POSITIONS
WEST OF LA0N
Announcement Is Made by
Hun War Office.
Germans Admit Retirements
Elsewhere Also.
BATTLE NOW $50 MILES LONG
Allies Push Enemy Back From
Ypres to Rheims.
British Take Neuye Chappelle
in Lys Sector.
AMERICANS ON AISNE RIVER
Have Advanced Rapidly From
AMERICANS ON AISNE RIVER
Have Advanced Rapidly From
the VesIe Line.
British Move Forward Along
Whole Picardy Front.

Berlin. Sept. 6-Strong attacks from
the Neuville Manancourt Molslains
line northeast of Peronne, were re-
pulsed Yesterday, says the Official
statement issued today by the German
war office. From Peronne and over
the Somme the enemy only hesltatihs-
ly followed the German rear guards.
German troops, the statement ADDS
stand in fighting contact with the
French on the Arizy- -Barisis-La faux
Conde line.
BAnizy and Barisis are points on the
old Hindenburg line west of Laon ana
at the edge of tho st. Gobain heights
On the heights northeaE of Fismess
the German war office says strong
American attacks were repulsed.
East OF SoIssons the enemy followed
the Germans across the Nesle.
Chase Huns With Motors.
(By the Associated Press)
With the American forces on the
Afsne. Sept. 5.-To keep up with the
Germans retfeating beyond the river
Aisne, the Americans have. organized
autom obile machine gun detachments
with three men to each car. More than
thirty cars were operating north OF
the Vesle river early today AS not
much German infantry had peen
sighted the automobile machine gun
ners were uncertain just where their
advance might lead them The out1lt
had supplies of food and equipment to
enable them to keep after the Ger
mans for days.
French Capture Coucy-Le-Chateau.
Paris, Sept 6.-The capture of
Coucy-Le-Chateau by the French
makes the German positions on the
viz md
practically untenable, according to
French military officers.
Advance on $50 Mile Front.
(By the Associated Press)
Continuing their pressure all along
the front from Rheims to Ypres, the
allied forces are pushing back the Ger
mans on virtually this entire $50 mile
line
Telling progress has been made II
particular by the French and Ameri-
cans along the southern part or the
front The French are before the old
Hindenburg positions along a consid-
erable stretch in this sector, where
they are closing in upon the bastion
of St Gobain. the Keystone of the
German defensive system in the west.
Further north the enemy armies are
still in retreat before the French and
British, who are capturing town after
town as they make rapid strides to-
ward the line from which the Germans
attacked in their offensive of last
March Ham is almost within the
allied grasp and Chaupy is seriously
threatened.
Americans on the Aisne.
The Americans have moved up
along the Aisne line, reaching the
ground Immediately south of the river.
The Germans north of the stream ap-
pear inclined to halt temporarily, but
m n
they will speedily be forced to resume
their rearward march and not halt it
again until their old line at the Che
min Des Danes is reached. Thru the
continued French progress on the
German right flank, north of the
Aisne, however. even the Chemin Des
Danes line seems virtually outflanked
and the retirement may not stop short
of the Ailette.
The Campaign for Cambrai has
halted as far as the push on the di-
rect line for the city is concerned, but
the advances which the Anglo-French
forces are making southwark along
the line are calculated to work notably
toward the success of the main drive
Last Barriers Passed.
The Somme and the Canal du Nord
water barriers have been passed ir
this sector and the Germans stand
lack of the canal in the north may
pS IeHdeIeU dS lhC CiicAhS ACl
flank on the canal line at Havrincour
is menaced by the drive further south
On the Flanders front, the British
pressure seems likely to drive the Ger
mans further than they apparentl,
had intended going in their retire
rnent Field Marshal Haig's troop.
are pressing in upon AFmentieres boil
from the north and south and theil
thrust seems likely soon to be con
sidered as threatening Lille. the grea
manufacturing center of northern
France. southwest of Armentires II
tfis sector the British are movin,
east from Neuve Chapelle and hav,