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Show GERMANY ACCEPTS TERMS, SAY BERLIN DISPATCHES WITHDRAWAL onus illlK Haig's Men Expect . to Enter Great Coal City Tomorrow) Hun$ Are Falling Back .Rapidly BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, Oot. 12 Neuter a.) Britiah advance pet new have been pushed to within little more than mile ef the- eutakirte ef Deuai. Tha advance frem here hat te be very eautteua, kewever, aa "mMf dtuyiw minew Have 1een countered and there la good rea aov' to believe the town Itealf it Honeycombed Hon-eycombed with death trapa. By Aasoelatad Preea, WITH THE ANGLO-AMERICAN FORCES ON THE VALENCIENNES VALEN-CIENNES FRONT, Oct 12. Tha evacuation ef 'lie city ef Valenciennes Valen-ciennes itself waa started three weeks ago. Prisoners captured t day said they had orders to hold on to the last and to kill aa many Britons and Americans as possible. By Associated Press. 1 LONDON. Ort. 12. The withdrawal with-drawal of the (iermans arrow ; the Snste canal has been more or Ipkh eompleted. lt.ia believed Field Marshal Haip'n men will he on the e1a: of the canal ttnri in the outffklrta nf kur by lomnrrttw. Bmith nf I Ann the Germans are con- ; tlnuine; their retirement north of the 1 famous Chimin des Itamra unrtrr the; irftijr nf attacks from the west and j eouth. and It la confidently expected the whole of the famoua hikhway will he entirely evacuated very eoon. The (lermnna are fnlllna back very rapidly in the Champagne and this mornina; the French have advanced for a dlntance of from thrrt to fuur miles. After capltirtnff Vouziera. on the Atne river, the Krench have gone! nnme distance beyond that town. 8o swiftly la the line rhanjtins; thai it la difficult to follow the French advance from point to point. Germans Retreat . I Despite "Victories" By Unites Press. BERLIN (Via Lrfmdon.. Oct. 12 Tefeat of an "immensely superior force" of Krench and Americans In i the Champagne in a two weeka' battle 1 has enabled "smooth execution" of the German retirement In the Alsne bend, the German war office announced an-nounced today. A retirement west of Douat waa also reported. British Troops Continue Advance I,ONTON, Oct. 12. Hritlsh forces last nlffht continued their advance north of the. rWnace river. Field Marshal Mar-shal Hail announced today. The advance ad-vance la In the direction of Douai. The villages of Hamel. Brehiereo (less than three miles fiom Doual) and Ctitncy (less than two miles from DoViall have been captured, "-farther north the Hritlsh have pushed tv the eaat of Henin-Lietard. northwest of Pouitl, and they are in the environs of Knnay. Huns in Desperate Stand on River Bank "By Associated Press. WITH THB BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, Oct 12. The enemy yesterday yester-day be it an an attempt to alow up the American advance on the main battle-front. battle-front. All the bridges across tha river Belle from Ie Cateau southward were blown up and the Germans uem to have been digging- furiously along the line of the high ground some 2000 to 4000 yards east of the river, which already al-ready has been crooned by the Rrltfah and Americans at several plaoes. Ap-(Contlnued Ap-(Contlnued on page WITHDRAWAL (Continued from page 1.) parently the Germans Intend to make a stand here. In this locality all of tod ay" oper-atlona oper-atlona have been devoted to saining the river croaatnsa and eatabltahlnc a firm footing- on the eaat bank. There has been sharp machine gun fighting and the Germane have poured a heavy fire upon the nest bank of the river. Aa soon Am the Americana and the cavalry entered St. Soup let south of Ie Cateau they came under a heavy fire from the German gun concentration. concentra-tion. Houth of here the Brltlnh and French have driven deeply Into the enemy territory ter-ritory and the French now control a long atrip of the west bank of the Olee canal. British advanced patrols reached the canal bank. |
