The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-18
HUNS ROUTED ON
2O-M|LE FRONT.
New Drive of British and
American Troops
ADVANCE ON THE MEusE
More Towns Fired BY Germans IN
Disorderly Retreat Between Cam
brai And ST. Quentin-TWo
Hundred Guns Taken.

Iondon.-The formidable German
defense system between Cambria and
st. Quentin has been utterly demol-
ished and British, American ana
French troops are out in the open coun-
try eastward in pursuit of the retreat
ing enemy.
Cambria, the pivotal point in the
former line, and over which there has
been SO much bitter fighting, is in Brit
Ish hands; numerous villages and ham
lets to the south have been overrun
by the Allies, and thousands of Ger
mans have been made prisoner and
hundreds of their guns captured.
The victory seemingly is a complete
one. and with General Foch's strategy
working smoothly in bending back the
German line in one great converging
movement the Germans apparently
are in a serious predicament. From
the region northwest of Rheims to the
Meuse River, north Of Verdun, the
French and Americans are slowly, but
surely, pushing the Germans backward
toward the Belgian border.
In Macedonia and Asiatic Turkey the
troops of the Entente still have the
enemy on the run. Nowhere Is the
enemy able to do more than fight re-
tarding battles, giving ground when
the pressure becomes too strong.
Under the avalanche of steel hurled
against them on the Cambrai-St. Quen-
sin sector the Germans could not live
and were forced to fee eastward.
Heavy casualties were inflicted on
those of the enemy who had the tenn
Gritty to endeavor to make stand.
On the other hand the casualties Of
the Allies are declared to have been
relatively small, those of the Ameri-
cans being less than half the number
of prisoners taken by them.
Where the enemy purposes to make
his next stand cannot be foretold, but
probably an effort for turnabout will
be attempted along the Valenciennes-
Sedan front. After this line the only
known German defensive position west
of the Rhine is the Mouse River. The
Americans already are threatening to
make this line untenable, having start
ed an advance up the valley on the
eastern side of the stream toward Sc
dan.
The maneuvers of the French north
west of Rheims are cutting more deep
ly into the German line, despite the
serious resistance that is being offered
by the enemy to postpone the fall of
the great st. Gobain massif and the
highly important strategic positions of
Laon and LaFere, which seemingly are
likely to be pinched out of the battle
front by the successful operations
around st. Quentin and Berry au BAG.
Strong resistance also is being i'm
posed by the Germans against further
advances by the French and Americans
In Champagne and east of the Argonne
forest. Particularly heavy counter-at-
tacks have been launched by the en-
envy on various positions, but without
results other than increasing his cas-
ualties. Along the Suippe River the
lighting is furious, but the French have
been able to make further crossings
of the streams. st. Etienne has
changed hands several times In bitter
combats.
West Of the Argonne forest the
Americans have driven their line for
ward to the region of Cornay on the
Aire River, where they have effected a
junction with the French troops, and
seemingly the Argonne forest soon will
be in Allied hands. On the eastern
side of the Mouse the Americans have
advanced and taken several small vii.
lagos and also Strengthened out their
line, which was being enfiladed by the
German guns from the east.