The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-08
BY The Associated Press J

Marshal Foch'S succession OF
hammer blows on the line from
Rheims to Arras, since July Is have
now we'll night completely flattencd
out the great hulgcs created by the
Germans in the spring and early
summer.
Further still, the well co-ordinat
ed progress OF his attack has
brought him to 4 point where he
may be able to strike a still more
disastrous blow to the German de
iensivc system in that region.
From Laon to Cambrai the Hin
denburg line stood all last year in
the way of the allied armies seeking
to drive back the enemy from nor
thcrn France and Flanders. Little
impression was made in that line
except temporarily last fall i'll Cen
cral Byng'S drive below Cambria.
Already, in this summers campaign.
however the line has been pierced
on wide front along its northerly
stretches by the British and within
the past few hours it has been PEN
etrated in its southerly reaches by
the French.
1t appears that Marshal Foch's
plan may prove to involve the turn
ing of the line on both its flanks-
at Cambria and Laon. In the north
the British have for several days
been in position to deliver what
might easily prove vital stroke on
the west of Cambria where they
halted at the Canal du Nord and
made no move toward driving home
the blow which the logic of the Situ-
alton points 10 as inevitable.
In the South.
In the south, the armies OF Gen
eral Petain have now fought their
way to positions where the left
flank OF the Hindenburg line is un-
der their guns. and the edges OF the
defensive positions are beginning
TO feel the effect OF the pounding.
On the western outskirts of the
bastion Of St. Gobain, defending
Laon. the French already at Barasis
are in advance OF the line they occu-
pied in 1917, and farther south, be-
low the main bastion. are standing
on ground which had not been in
allied hands since 1914. Farther
north. they are before La Fere
whence an eastward drive would
carry them north OF the St liobain
masSii.
The French drive seems clearly
aimed at this massif, which, appar-
entity safe from capture by front
attack, seems not unlikely to prove
the objective of an encircling move
ment This, however, may have tc
await the further retirement OF the
Germans north OF the Aisne to the
east.
Such a retirement is regarded as
inevitable.
Rapid Advances Yesterday
The process of closing in toward
the Hindenburg line at the points
where it had not yet been reached,
was continued rapidly yesterday by
both the French and British. The
British moved forward at an accel-
Grated pace below the Cambrai-Pe-
rome front, and on that front itself
they are already close to the line.
On the Somme, the French pressed
on beyond Tergnier and moved up
speedily along all the line on the
front between La Ferre and St.
Quentin.
On the Aisne, there was little
change toward the western part of
the front, where the Americans and
French are on the river, facing the
enemy entrenched along the canal,
which parallels the stream. Fur
ther east, the Germans are giving
up grudgingly the angle formed by
the line trending off southeastward
toward Rheims, offering particular
stiff opposition to the Franco
American forces near Revillon and
Montigny-Sur-Nesle.
In Flanders. the British made
some further headway, but found
the German resistance stiffening
around La Basse. The Germans ap-
parently do not intend TO give up
Armentieres in this sector, but are
reported hurriedly fortiiying the re-
eion defending il.