Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-08-29
On Almost Every Sector Of
Front From scissors to
ArraS Enemy Line GrumbIeS
Under Attacks Of Allies.
B0CHES BATTLE WITH
BACKS TOWARD .S0MME
Germans Find Themselves in
Two Traps and Fight Fero-
ciouSIy to Save Their
Armies From Defeat.
undated War Lead by the Associated

Press.
The Germans facing the allied for
ces from Arras to scissors everywhere
are in dire peril.
On almost every sector of the battle
front the enemy line continues to
withstanding the violence, born of
desperation, of the counter offensive
tactics.
Near Arras the old Hindenburg line
now is well outflanked; from the
Scarpe to the Somme the hostile line
gradually is falling hack, while from
the south of the Somme to scissors
the enemy front has literally been
smashed and the German posts appar-
emily are caught in two distinct traps,
escape from which without heavy
losses in men made prisoner and guns
and material captured seems almost
impossible of achievement
Scores of additional towns have
been captured by the British, French
and American troops, the Americans
having entered the fray with the
French northwest of Scissors, white
all of the old German salients in the
allied lines now have been flattened
out and the allies themselves have
dug deeply into the enemy's terrain.
Enemy Trapped BY Allies.
The first trap in which the enemy
finds himself is the triangle formed
by the sharp curve of the Somme
river with Peronne its apex ami with
Curiu on the Somme and Fresncs, re-
spectively. It's northern and southern
bases. This triangle Is a little more
than three miles deep and six miles
Wide, and M ii The EeernaHs arc
fighting with their backs toward the
Somme on both the north and the
east.
Desperate resistance is being offered
bv the enemy in order that his men
may have time to reach haven of
safety across the stream. but the Brit
ish are hard after their quarry and
with the French O little TO the south
almost up to the river to aid them by
an outflanking movement, 1t would
seem that the odds are heavily
against the Germans.
1t was the French troops who
sprang the other trap. With the fall
OF Chaulnes the French forces routed
the enemy over front of about 10
miles and penetrated the region to a
depth at some points of nearly seven
miles From the north of Chaulnes
to Nesle the penetration of the
French reached the heights on the
left bank OF tue 1oltiIltt sOEtii"Ni -
the advance left the French along the
Canal Du Nord at various points be-
tween Nesle and the outskirts Of Noy-
on. south and southeast of Noyon
gains also were made and Noyon and
the entire region between Nesle ana
Scissors now are in a great pocket
and with the French pincers WORKING
hard to close upon it.
Yanks Fight with French,
The Americans are fighting with the
French northwest of scissors in the
operation which has in view the blot
ting out of the Noyon sector and the
outflanking of the Aisne and the OLD
Chemin Des Danes positions Off
cial reports have the Americans and
French fighting violently with the
enemy around Juvigny and Chavlgny
where they have gained some ground
The Americans have successfully sus-
tanned several heavy enemy counter
attacks in this region
The Americans and the Germans
also are engaged in bitter battles
around Bazoches and Fismette on the
Vesle.
The Germans endeavored to fort
the Vesle south of Bazoches but were
held by the Americans. Likewise al
enemy assault against Fismette was
stopped. The, German official conf
munication asserts that the Americans
have suffered severe losses and los
more than ESQ prisoners in the battle
e alonp the Vesle