| Show II H. H HUNS F FLEE L I TOWARD 0 RD R RHINE INE I ALLIED GAINS THREATEN TEN OLD OLn I DEFENSE LINE I Bapaume N and Other Important Towns Taken by hy Victorious British I I French anti and Americans Associated Pre Press s. s London Aug 29 The 29 The occupation by the British of Bapaume was officially of of- announced tonight in Field Marshal Haigs Haig's report from British head head- quarters Field Marshal Haig reports that along the whole front from Bapaume southwards the Germans have been forced to retreat with great loss in prisoner prisoner pris pris- oner guns and material The British have reached the west bank of the Somme opposite Brie Blie and Peronne Peronne Washington Aug 29 North North of the Aisne our troops have made progress in the region of Juvigny in spite of the strong resistance of the enemy General Pershing's tonight says Our Our patrols were active along the Vesle and in the and brought in prisoners I Universal Service L T Aug 20 W. Noyon and antI Juvigny the tIle main bastions inthe in inthe J- J the mile So German line for which stop gap a titanic battle has raged for a n week have ha fallen to the thc allies I and aud Nesle arc are reported taken and the French stand before Ham while the British have hac dashed d four foul miles beyond Bapaume to I The west bal bank of the thc Somme is reported to have C bce been reached along a wide stretch The whole German line from the thc down to Soissons region regions has bas been I torn to flin flinders ers and fully one million field fiehl gray fighting men ar arg ar fleeing eastward nl ever toward the Belgian border toward border toward the Rhine I Back Hack across the Somme thc they must I flee before another night settles upon the desert of oC th the dead Back Bacle to the St. Cambrai-St. Laon line Ihie whence the they hey westward in their super drives es of oC l last ut spring pring They are arc staggering stag stag- gert gering back bade stunned by th the merciless I II I 11 L of ot tho ho allies ot a 3 couple or of brief n mouths months ago It inis was written in tn inthe tile the Berlin bible hible the North orth German Germa Gazette Ga- Ga Ga Ga- zette that there was there was no punch left Iet In Int t them thein I Cathedral Della T relI Id ll I of oC Victory iet ry- ry From the ancient cathe cathedral lal of or Noyon I erected on oil the site o of ot a u church built by br I the Short through the cracks s ripped lipped by bi many iny a sacrilegious shell ran rang out tonight a solemn chant a special service ser of or gratitude was celebrated 1 From the top o of the town hall hail the tricolor tri til- color fluttered lu lustily In the evening e brec breeze e. e proclaiming deliverance of or the city where whore was wa crowned I where Calvin was born bOIn where the tho thel Moro once held sway and I where this tills summer the kaiser generals over O French champagne were svere fixing the da day for Paris Paris' fall raIl Thirty six miles to the northwest t. t In Inthe Inthe Inthe the shambles that was once the flourIshing flourishing flour flour- city of or Bapaume French women and children and old oM men who fur for nearly half hair a year jear ar have ha been slaves slavos of or orI I the in a invader kissed the tile hands of or husky Tommies and babbled sobbing thanks to for foi the liberation of the tho town where France In 1871 suffered buffered one of or her worst defeats Strike for tor But such scenes though h the they took look place this very day are arc almost a fast things developing develop develop- Ol 01 ory 3 now so 50 are ing lug on un the field of or battle Foch Is marching with seven league boots The rile Thereal real line St. St Quentin La Quentin LaFere Fere Laon Laou Is his objective objective tive thc an and until It is ht reached 1 there willbe will willbe willbe be no stopping In Il Its the tite Germans mn may be expected to make malc their final stand That battle unless all 81 signs ns are deceiving will be Armageddon's eddans ed- ed dons don's last round At t tour four miles cast east of or Bapaume Where here the tho British are fire re reported rc- rc ported late today they aro are only seventeen seventeen sev sev- sev- sev enteen and n C Chair half hair miles southwest of or Cambra B ll 13 ng's left lert wing ves t of oC Arras I Is only fourteen miles northwest north north- I west of or rile Tho I.- I. French before Ham are seine oine I thirteen miles southwest of or St. St Quen Quon- tin lin The Tue British army which links s up I with the French east cast of or Chaulnes is lit little Lle more more a away wa from It it The rhe French at nr are arc fourteen I I I 1 miles and a n halt half both from front La Ln Fore cro and I t F Laon On Americans are aro believed belie to 10 have hao I participated In today's attacks that re resulted re- re I suIted in Juvigny's TuI ns capture They fought with the French In that region I yesterday From Noyon northeastward I to Chauny Chaun and La Fore Fere the tile French arcI are arc I expected to have comparatively cly easy as I sailing More dore difficult Is la an advance ance on Laon Hin since c the route to that t basI bastion bas has tion Uon the southern pivot pl of or the old real I line Is barred b by three great forests to He Be c heard rem From But ThIt presently the American ann aimy on the Vesle Is o expected to be sc Into motion with the French arm army un under r ManKin simultaneously tackling It in jn inthe the right flank north o of Soissons possibly pos sibly even en In the tile rear Such a concentric concentric concentric concen concen- aS assault w open an easier route louto to Laon for foi t the lie Chemin Des Dames Is j to hold no longer an any hope to ho G German ll Aisne arm army asa as asa a n permanent stopping place Thus tour four great ke key points in thereal tho the real line line St. St I Quentin La Fere Fore and ami Laon are Laon-are are gravely grave grave- ly 1 menaced b by the last twenty four hour development Another Douai fourteen and anti a n half miles northwest of or is 18 seriously serious serious- ly hi threatened by hy the British eastward push northeast of oC Airas Anas 15 At Arleux the British are arc only about twelve miles west vest of or The Tho northern pivot phot of oC the tIle burg line Lille would be bany b by any substantial advance on the tho part of or Continued 1 on Page 2 ALliES NOW MENACE HINDENBURG LINE Continued From Front Page Ing 1 Halg's s 's Flanders arm army Tho The continual local successes by b the British in Flanders Flanders Flan Flan- ders netting them mall many valuable Jumping ol off places foreshadows an early drive on that front t which would nece necessarily arll bo ho directed against Lille That Is the situation in its largest I aspects aspect |
