Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-09-08 | Page 27 | Enemy Forced to Give up Gains

ENEMY ENEMY FORCED TOI TO GIVE UP GAINS I Foch IolI Dun During Week Wrests r rI 1 I Many lany Tactical Points 1 Front From Huns Dr Br I 7 London Sept 7 The The p. past t w wa week sets R a anew R new mark marlc for or Fochs Foch's tactical successes suc- suc The Tho British rupture of or tho the Wotan otan line has lias demonstrated that no defense lino the tho Germans are aio capable lot of ot con constructing can withstand the tho al allies allies al- al lies Iles while tho the Franco Americans forced the retreat o of tho the enemy from the Vesle The Thc British crossing of or tho the Canal du Nord fifty yards u wide with witha a 8 foot fifty stone wall on tho the sides and containing containing- no water was likewise a a brilliant war achievement The Thc weeks week's summary shows a no German Ger- Ger man retreat on a mile front to a depth of or from Crom one to seventeen miles shortening tho thu front b by thirty miles The rho British contesting contestinS' ninety miles of tot the present mile lay battlefront re- re 30 square miles one of ot which Is In tho the Lyse sector where the the enemy retreated from one to six miles on a n twenty mile front oh- oh I ers en taken numbered and the villages retal retaken cn 1 6 1 6 The Tho French reclaimed square miles Including tort forty miles taken with the aid of or the tho Americans 2 76 6 villages sand and about 1000 prisoners The Tho deepest advance was at nt Ten where the French are arc pushing pushing- up the OIso to avoid a frontal attack on the wooded hills o of SI St while the Franco Americans are trying to outflank the tho massif b by striking along the Aisne valle valley Tho The Germans retain retainer very er little of or the 1918 1915 gaIns sains The They retain letain a strip of oC about twenty- twenty five Cho miles avci eln averaging aging three miles wide yin ln In Flanders and about fort forty miles aela av averaging averagIng av- av ela InG a width of ot seven miles on the tho Somme while on the Aisne they have hava thirty relics miles of or ground about five miles In Mn width Thus out of or 2000 miles won ib fice by the Germans at such heavy sacrifice fice the they retain but ut square miles toda today i I