Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-10-17 | Page 2 | Lille Added to Allied Victories

LILLE ADDED TO ALLIED VICTORIES Recapture of Largest City Taken by Hum - Is One of - Many - Features Fea-tures of Big Smash LILLE ha ben captured by the Hritish. Allied prewture on all aides of the aalient of which Lille was the center compelled the enemy to give up the city, the laxitest town snd for four years sn Important unit of the enemy defense system. The fall of Lille comes almost simultaneously simul-taneously with the lanuchlng of an offensive by Field Marshal Hale Sfalnst the new German defenses south of Valenciennes. His troops today are, Tor-ninn t.HW.,1 i, f ra.a,., acmes th Belle river, where they were halted late last week. Great gain in flandcrs. In Flanders the allies have trained Important new successes while from the Oise to the Meuse the allied pressure pres-sure Is maintained stronsly. In the anxle north of I -a on the Germans apparently ap-parently are retiring from between the Olse and Herre rivers. Hi nee the beoinnlnir of the week there has been little heavy fighting southeast of Cam bra I, where the Brit-Ish Brit-Ish and Americans made such rapid st rifles last werk after the rapture of Cam brat. The Hermans resisted strong-ly strong-ly on the line of the Selle and It Is the defenses that the Kiitlsh and probably the Americana under the same command are assaulting. LEAVE AWKWARD ANGLE. Knuth of Hohaln the southern end of the attacking front the French troops are reported in contact with the Hermans a Ion Ahe whole Otse-Herre Otse-Herre front. This undoubtedly means the Oermans are rettrlna from the awkward angle between tha two rivers In a continuation of tha withdrawal from the Jaon massif. On a fro of more than thirty miles In Flanders the Belgians. French and British continue to push forward vigorously. vig-orously. Courtral and Thourout. Important Im-portant railway Junctions on the flanks ofhe attacking front, have fallen to the U4-.rxU.nn and British, while In the center the French have taken L.ichter-velde L.ichter-velde and Ardoye. Courtral probably Is the most Important of the rail center cen-ter feeding the Lille area. - Thourout la twelve miles southwest of Bruges, which Is less than ten miles from the Dutch frontier. On both sides of the Meuse the Americans maintain their pressure which resulted Wednesday In the capture cap-ture of Important ground north and northeast of the Argonne foreat. Fjaet of the river the Americans have gained important high ground. ALLENBY MAKES PROGRESS. In 8yrta the army commanded by General Allenby has moved far to the north of Beirut and patrols are moving mov-ing northeast from Damascus. It Is probable that with the return of cooler weather the British forces In Mesopotamia may make a new drive to Join General Allenby and thus forge a line from the Mediterranean to the Persian gulf. HISTORIC'EVENTS LOOM. " Reports of a most sensational character char-acter relative to Germany's unconditional uncondi-tional surrender and the abdication of Kmperor William are reported from Amsterdam, but they are not confirmed. con-firmed. There appears, nowever, to be a disposition In authoritative circles cir-cles In london and laris to believe that events of a historic nature may occur In Germany at any time.