Show CAPITAL WAiTS WAifS NEWS OF GREAT CREAT GERMAN DEFEAT T q Crushing Blow by hy Foch Mean l Invasion of May lay 2 Germany I I i Washington Oct 10 TIe The The wholly unexpected extent of or the tho German col- col lapso lapo between between St. St Qu Quentin and CambI Cam- Cam br bI l. l which loaves as lS tl the e enemy stands t today dy a l great gap torn tori In cent center r of ot I It j t th lInes that thal were vere already struggling i itc I tc to themselves and nd Get back lInce to toI toa a. a shorter front has given rise ilse to th tIA holler belief here that there thore Is even eyen the possibility of or a a. crushing and Immedi- Immedi at te military victory for 01 the tho allies Should the tho Trench French to tho the south or British to tho the north also succeed In bi caking through n before tho the Ger- Ger cnn can compote complete an extensive retirement retirement retire retire- ment the thc capture or destruction of r a L army group might hl be bo realized l lri thc opinion of or observers here hore the tho today ha hai almost limitless Foch Koch Is virtually virtually vir vir- possibilities and Marshal certain to concentrate every ounce of or power at his command In an effort to execute a n. final coup T-ho T smashing victory of or tho the Anglo- Anglo 1 rICan forces north o of St. St Quentin th the for tor early Inva In- In be paving payIng wa way va on of or German Germany Itself Striking hints of or a wholly new enterprise di directed dl- dl reeled at tho the upper tipper Rhino valley have c cou COW from Cram unofficial quarters in K Krance and antl they follow o repeated ropo ro- ro po s from Switzerland that the civil populations ot of or the tho Rhine valley towns w ware re being removed romo by lIy the Gorman German au- au Drive DrUe Over Rhine S Some me officers hero here regard these i re- re e- e s as highly significant The They give ni particular weight because it now app appears ars certain that tho the enemy will be forced f fed ed far back all alon along the tho front In Inn n northern thern Franco France and Belgium within next few ew da das dars 1 While the constant I hammering is kept u up Ul in tho in-tho the north to II the German Gorman arm armies Ins there It ii might It was said to deliver a anew anew anew I new stroke on the Lorraine Alsace front that might swiftly develop elop into a n of or Germany itself by lIy way Rhino Rhine alle valley It It does not appear likely lIkel however th thai the Rhine drive plans If Jr there are arc aresu S l su h 1 plans will develop until the tho sit sit- Don ul ch clears lr In the north Should the tho armies escape the tho triple trap between Verdun and the North sea e. however an and e establish h a l lUne line Une on the teIso front man many officers are aro confident confident dent that the center of or attack will swing 1111 suddenly to a drive Into Germany Itself lI by the shortest t. t route the tho Rhine thine V a fl c y or r the moment attention Is concentrated concen concon- r on tho the startling forward rush of hc An Anglo American lo forces foree which 11 broken through the great t St. St Q Quentin defensive zone To th routh it ills is known that the enem enemy is ever every effort to hold up UI the French along the river All 11 but butone one ones of ot the twenty four good German Jerman d divisions en on this front It has been re- re pored d. d are now in th front lino line I the French reach an and pass the as they threaten to do tho the on- on rn my forces in tho Laon pocket ap apparently parenti would be in desperate straits No 0 ne- ne ne- ne e Available farther east to tho the and beyond French and American forces a apo fiercely ahead and carryIng carryIng carrying carry- carry Ing an even wider menace and to the north noeth of or Lute Lille Belgian BeHlan French and British troops have hae driven forward another another an another an- an other grim threat To no part of or thelIne theline the lIne lne apparently can tho the pressed hard center renter turn for fOI reinforcements and nd re relief re- re hot lief on a scale scalo th that t would more than delay dolay tho the advance ad at nt any n point The spearhead of the tho British advance was reported at Lo 10 Gateau Cateau today That would mean that the tho Anglo-American Anglo effort has forged ahead until the northern end of or the tho groat grent railway y system ss s's tern tem tho Germans is only fifteen fit fit- teen miles distant This lateral trunk line passes through Valenciennes V AVesnes Avesnes Aves- Aves nes and Hirson reaches tho the Ieuse at and runs thence through Sedan and on to the southeast General March farch chief of ot s staff att Indicated Indi rated last Saturday that the cutting butting of this greatest single communication system of oC tho the enem enemy was the main obJective objective objective ob ob- ob- ob of or the American thrust west vest of ot the Meuse The Americans aro are aro within less cs than eighteen miles of ot the road now at a point nearly miles in an anair anair anair air line from the tho point where the tho BritIsh British British Brit Brit- ish threaten it on the north It may maybe maybo maybo bo be a race raco to cut the tho road rond but tho the strategic effect would bo he different In each ach case Should this line Une bo be broken b by the Americans now moving forward on both sIdes aides of oC tho the Mouse lc It would cut the tho German western front In half halt Such Sucha n I move might be considered vitally necessary to tho the launching of or a blow nt Rt the he Rhino valley Tho The German t oops in the north could offer little help http Jt f that lateral rail system estem that ha II stood tood like a wall behind tho the whole German front in Franco France bo be lost to them |