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Show :1 TEUTON r us iii . FLIGHT ' Vast Front Swing Back Like Gate Before Al-i Al-i x lied Assault, Leaving . Huns Feeling Forlorn By William Philip SimmM United Press Staff Correspondent. PARIS, Oct '21. The German' rtt turning movement backward back-ward eontinaea at fall swing today. Six Hun armies tinder Prince-Rupprecht, Prince-Rupprecht, General ran Boehm and j tha Imperial crown prince, pivoting on Met, ara falling hark from Belgium Bel-gium and Franca. Tha enemy lino la swinging Uka a great gate, the retreat becoming more rapid In proportion pro-portion te the dlatanos from the hinge. ' Thus the Huna are fighting Ilka madman before Mots, whereas their Z resistance In Flanders is slight. NIAPtINO SRUSSELS. , King Albert may enter Bruaeeta within s fortnight Tha Fourth and Sixth German armies of Von Arnlm ; and Tow Quest are hard pressed. S Thar face tha alternatives of scrambling scram-bling back across the Dutch frontier, , surrendering te the Belgians or precipitately pre-cipitately fleeing southeastward toward Liege. Neither army appeared te be In a poettlon te put up a strong defense. The enemy doubtless hoped to delay i tha pursuing allies, first on the line of the Lye and aeeondly on the line ef the Kacaut, while the Mouse line waa atrangthened, but the demoralised bochee can acarcely be eapected to ahow much fight now until they get behind the Mouse. j CAVALRY NEAR GHENT. ' la tha meantime Foch la threaten-" threaten-" ng to wreck Hlndenburg'e plana at s several polnta on the line. Cavalry - la pushing on toward Ohent and 5 Audenarde. threatening Oermany'e northern flank; Brltlah, Americans and French ara menacing tha enemy center, while the French and Americana Ameri-cana In tha Meuee region threaten the " very hinge ef the whole movement. - An endurance eon teat Is therefore In progreee between the Germanic armies and the German lo civilians. Tha . ; armies are raring for Liege, the . Mouse, Mats. Btraaaburg and the . Rhine, on which line they hoped to make a atand before the clvlliana demand a ahowdown from their rulera and force an unconditional aurronder. It la ths most forlorn of forlorn hopes, but It Is the only chance that tha kaiser haa of aavlng even a dinky remnant of his throne and his crown. According to opinion here, hie ' chancea are precisely the earns aa thoae ef ths proverbial anowball In Sahara, or the place of enternal punishment Two Bridgeheads Captured by French By Aaaselated Press, LONDON, Oct. XLThe French troopa on the allied center In Belgium have gained a bridgehead aoroaa the Lye canal at Neyele, seven miles- west of Ghent. .. The French also have gained a bridgehead ever the Lya river at Oram-mane. Oram-mane. The Germans are attempting to hold a Una from Rede to the river Lya at Petegem, north of Orammene. There la no confirmation of a report from Dutch sources that the allied troopa have captured Eeeloo and several sev-eral thousand prisoners. This Is believed be-lieved te be extremely Improbeblo, as la alae tha report that ths fate of Ohent haa been sealed. Bouth of the Scheldt the Brltleh have ' strengthened the Una between Denaln and Le Cateau and are within three or four miles of ths Valenclennea railway line. The alnee also have atralghtened - out their Una between the Olae and the Serre and the French are engaged In heavy fighting la the strongly fortified j |
