Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-09-06
KEY TO H|NDERBURG
LINE WITH ALLIES
FEARFUL LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
THE HUNS, WHO ARE STILL
ON THE RUN.
What Was Believed to Be Impresnsblt
RuIwork Of the German Defense
In the North Has Given Way
Under Allied OnsIaughts.

With the Army in France.--The
Huns are steadily losing ground and
the key to the Hindenburg line now
seems to be in the hands of the allies.
! Fearful losses have been sustained by
the retreating Germans, thousands OF
prisoners have been taken by the VIC
torlous allies, while guns and muni-
tions In almost incalculable lots have
| been lost by the fleeing TeutOns.
The latest battle Of the Somme IS
definitely won-there remains only Il
little pressure to be applied until Won
HIndenburgs divisions are again all
behind the line which bears his name,
seeking to recuperate, if given time,
from the consequences Of his mis-
carried plans.
over u front of thirty miles from the
region of Arras to Peronne, Field Mar
shall Haig's forces have literally
smashed the German front.
The southern portion of the famous
-Queant switch line, Which
had been heralded as the impregnable
bulwark of the German defense in the
north, has given way under the VIC
lence of the British onslaught over its
entire front from the Scarpe river to
Queant, Stance of about ten miles.
Already the roads to Donai, Cambria
and ST. Quentin are thoroughly in
vested by the British and French
armies, while north of SCISSORS the
French and Americans are in positions
of vantage from which they carry out
turning movements which will outflank
Laon and the Danes ana
Aisne lines The situation of the
enemy, viewed from the war maps, is
the most perilous he has yet been in.
Added to the troubles of the German
high command is the situation that is
fast developing in Flanders, in the re-
gion around Ypres where the Germans
daily are being forced out of their po-
sitions by the British and American
troops. All over this sector steady |
progress is being made eastward in the |
plotting out of the salient that has long |
existed there. The Americans, who
took Voormezeele Sunday, now are |
well into the region east of the town,
having overcome the strong resistance /
of the Germans who endeayored to bar
their way. A few more strides of
Haig's men in this region and Armen-
there's will be within striking distance.
After Armentieres it is but step to
Lille
Hard fighting has been in progress
between the British and Germans
around Peronne, where the Australians
withstood violent attacks
and have taken several thousand pris-
oners. Between Peronne and Bapaume
he Germans also have imposed strong
opposition to the British, but the st.
Pierre Yaast wood, LeTransloy and Al
aines and Haut-AIlaines all have been
carried.
Huge fires which were seen in the
direction of Vauxaillon. northeast of
indicated that the enemy was
burning his supplies. There is said to
,e nothing else inflammable in that
egion.
The American advance in the last few
lays has brought many thrilling in
tances. Our artillery received con-
for it's work for following
he infantry closely and firing point
lank into the pestiferous German
machine gun position. Our seventy
ives got so close that the gun crews
aptured the fleeing Germans.