The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-08-22
TIDE Of DEFEAT ;. ).
HEAVILY UPON !:
GERMAN ARMIES.
FRONT FROM SOISSONS TO-
THE SEA THREATENED
Innumerable Tanks BigFaetor
in Continued British
Advance
(By the Associated Press.)

The tide Of defeat still surGes heavily
against tho German armies In France
and Flanders. On four important Sec
tors French and British arms again
have been served, and the entire Ger
man front from Ypres, In Belgium, TO
soissons, ON the Aisne, now II more
seriously monaced than before. =
French troops Of General Mangtn, op..
Grating from tho region two miles
northwest of Scissors to the otss river,
and those Of General Hu1nbert fighting
between the Disc and the Aatx nave
materially pushed forward their fronts,
bringing them to positions which
threa aten to compel the immediate evaeu-
alton of the entire Sontme-oise salient
from Braye to Noyon.
Farther to the north between Albert
and Arras, Field Marshal HadS mas 1ol.
lowed up his successes OF previous daye
by a new offensive over front OF about
ten miles and driven forward his trSops
for splendid gains over the entir& nne'
capturing a number Of villages, 1an.nH
prisoners and guns and infnctinE/ hsa7y
casualties on tho enemy.
Still farther north, in the famous 1ys
sector, = general eastward advance o7
front of moro than four n1leB has be"n
made by the British, who he.ve hrouHhs
their positions appreciahly nearer me
old 1916 battle line running cast OF AZ
menttereS.
humorous additional ,hahgs1 hnVo
bsen liberated by the French eaff OK
! Soissons aud positions Fave pssn cap
tnred on both sides Of the otse rtV.f,
.uhich sseuinzly make untenAbls fQs.
, occupation by the enemy, the t}nportant
| town OF Noyon, which tp now ohtflanked
OH tho southeast and Dominated eJ 1.o
French guns from the south ana W.
, On the south tho Frfncn arc stsnHS n.t
in sempingy, a mile fInd half distant,
whi1e on tho west they have captured
the important pivotal town Of Las!gny,
the key position to Noyon ana the platn3
to the north 49,,
Frcnch east Of DISC there has come
under the range OF General Aangin.S
guns the broad gage railway line leao-
ing from Noyon eastward TO La <ee-
the sole remaining Line, except 1oT Two
narrow guage roads, over Wnicn ths
enemy may transport hto men and sup.
supplies beyond 'hs range '' '"e : t'A'"
artillery.
At last accounts Haig was still press.
. inc. forward on tho heels OF the Hei.
mans between Albert and Arras, ~ith
tanks innumerahle. clearing tho way 1or
the infantry and machine guns and tha
Seh artillery which was keeping Gloss
nm to the advance. The Arras-AibeSt
ntilway already has been crossed ny tas
H-t5n east Of Boislieux st. Marc ana
Me-ca:e,. and south Of these towns tns
new line hos been pressed eastward n
conformity.
delivered q violent oounter-attact IN IN
endeayor t. recoup tn part the losses
they have sustained. TaeE efforts. now
.yer. were fruitless, for che Baasn
eyerywhere withstood their assaults ana
pushed back the enemy beyond tne
pointS Of his departure.
what Is to be the effect OF tns eIA1
drive along tho 12o-nlile battle line -
Ypres to Soissons cannot be forstolo
present but 1t seems highly propsole
that this entire front soon must % &C.
alligned. This particular menace 70 tns
G,rmans aside from that in the tsEEl-
tory between the Somne and oiss. ap'
nears to be on the sector along the veSts
liver from sotssons to Rheims, Whch,
from the war maps, looks to DO un-
tenable.
DANES do not appear to DO any TOO saie
Tor defense limo Il General nanGA
nresses much further northwest OF sois'
sons,