The Glenwood post., 1918-08-10

The historic battle ground between
Amiens and Montidier again is the
scene of a mighty contest. This time
the British and French are the aggres-
sors, and under their fierce onslaughts
in the first days battle they have
penetrated deeply into the German po-
sitions over a front of more than TWEEN
ty miles, reaching from the region Of
Braiches to the neighborhood of Nor
lancourt.
Following short but intensive artil-
lery preparation and aided by the misty
weather the allied attack took the Ger
mans completely by surprise and they
fled almost everywhere pell nell before
the tanks, motor machine gun batteries,
cavalry and infantry sent against them.
All the objectives set for the Austria
lians, Canadians, Englishmen and
bly, quick time, and at last accounts
Thursday night the allied forces were
still making progress. Wherever the
enemy turned to give battle he was
decisively defeated.
Thousands Of Germans were made
prisoners. Large numbers of guns were
captured, great quantities of war ma
terials were taken and a score or more
of villages and hamlets were reoccu-
ol I,, olJ;tinr hos
inflicted on the enemy. At its deepest
point the penetration of the German
line was about seven and half miles,
eastward from Villers- -Bretonneux -
Framerville, while from two to five
miles were gained all along the front
northwest of Montdidier to the gion
around Morlancourt. The fighting ex'
tended north of Morlancourt to the AL
bert sector, but no official details con-
cerning it have been received.
The advance of the allies in the cen.
ter places them well astride the rail
road leading from Vilers- -BretonneuS
to the important junction at Chaulnes
where lines radiate northeastward to-
ward Peronne and southward through
Roye to Compiegne.
The railway running northward to
Braye was crossed when the allies took
Framerville.
Well out on the plains and pressing
forward, seemingly with great rapidity
the present offensive of the French and
British gives promise of seriously men
acing the entire German front from
near the sea to Rheims. If the drive
should proceed eastward to any great
depth it cannot but affect the army of
the German crown prince now fighting
between the Aisne and Vesle and pos.
sibly make impracticable Il stand by
them even north of the Aisne along the
Chemin de Danes.
Under the pressure of the offensive
the menace to the channel ports seems
to vanish. Already there have been
signs to the northward from the posi-.
tions where Crown Prince Repprecht
had formed his men for drive toward
the channel that retrograde movement
was not improbable. With the armies
of his imperial cousin on the Soissons.
Rheims salient badly shattered and un'
able to lend him aid when his own
forces north Of Montdidier are in q
rather precarious position as . ,resul,
Of the new offensive, it is apparent that
Rupprecht will have to defer his cam
paign to cut of the cross channel
On the Veslc front little fighting oc.
CURED Thursday except in the process
Of line Strengthening operations on the
north bank, where, under an almost In
eessant rain Of enemy shells, both the
American and the French troops i'm
proved their stands. The German gum
not alone are playing upon the allied