Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-10-16 | Page 2 | 12,000 Huns Seized in Flanders

Soil SEIZED III FLANDERS Allie Tearing Away the Right Flank of Boche Line and Sweep Over Lowland in Belgium By Associated frees. SWEEPING steadily ahead over the lowlands of Belgium, the British, French and Belgian armies are rapidly wearing away the extreme right flank of the Qerman battle line. Twelvs thousand prisoners have been captured In two days. This Indicates a victory of (rest .importance, even If tha around gained was not of the utmost Importance In thedevelopmenl 6' thfMtsa orrsnilT". Allied forces have captured Menln snd Wervlcq and are. across the I.ys river In the neighborhood of tha Ist-ter Ist-ter town. There are unofficial reports thst Thourout has been taken and it ta confirmed that the British srs with- In two miles of Courtrai. Thla completely com-pletely outflanks Wlls from ths north. The allies ars now about sieves miles from Brutes snd twenty-five miles from Ghent. They bavs advanced about seven miles sines Monday morn. inc. AsERICAN BATTLING. - Fighting their way through a mass of barbed wire defenses snd over tan- sled lines of trenches ths Americans west of ths MeussvArs slowly cutting their way through Mia Kriemhlld line. They have carried hill Its, which dominates much of ths country west of Komagne, and have penetrated tlis second line of defense In ths vicinity of Landres-et-8t. Georges. The bstlls In this area has been most savage. Ths Germans ars mAking ; every-effort to hold their-positions. ' They srs pouring fresh troops into ths struggls In the hops lhat'he American Ameri-can onslaught may bs stayed before it reaches the Important railroad lines In ' the rear of the German front. A victory vic-tory for ths Americans in the Argonne sector would decide the fjtts of Qerman Qer-man y on the western front snd compel com-pel a general retreat y ths enemy from Frsnce. HUN POSITIONS IN PERIL. French snd Italian troops srs moving mov-ing more slowly ,along the Una from ' ths Otee to tbs Alsns than they did on Runday, when they wiped out ths greater part of ths Lson-La Kere salient. sa-lient. It appears that the Germans srs gradually emptying the pocket formed when the allies broke ths lines north of Ht. Quentin and along ths Alsne st Berry-su-Bae. The French, however, have passed Solssons. General Gouraud's army has crossed the Alsne west of Rethel snd this sdvsncs renders the enemy position posi-tion farther east rather perilous. As the progress of ths French continues the Oermana in ths Champagne sector seem to be slowly -involved In snother pocket such ss hss often forced a rapid retrrementon various sectors or ins" line.