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Show miLLlUN litlfltlu FLEE TOWARD RHINE FROM THE SCARPE DOWN TO THE SOISSONS REGION HUN LINE TORN TO FLINDERS. Bapaume, Noyon, Juvigny and Other Important Towns Taken by Victorious Victor-ious British, French and Americans Ameri-cans in Dash Fcrward. London. Kapaunie, Noyon and Juvigny, Juv-igny, the main bastions in the S.Vniile Gemum stop pup for which a titantic battle had raged for a week, have fallen to the allies. Comities and Nesle are reported taken and the French stand before nam, while the Britisn have dashed four miles bevond H:m:mnte to H:mnin- court. The west bank of the Sonmie is reported to have been reached along a wide stretch. The whole German line from the Scarpe down to Soissons region has been torn to flinders and fully one million mil-lion field gray fighting men are fleeing flee-ing eastward, ever eastward, toward the Belgian border toward the Rhine. Back across the Somme they must flee. Back to the Cambrai-St. Quentin-Laon Quentin-Laon line, whence they surged westward west-ward in their super drives of last spring. They are staggering back, stunned by the merciless blows of the allies, of whom a couple of brief months ago it was written in the Berlin bible, the North German Gazette, that there was "no punch left in them." From the ancient cathedral of Noyon, Noy-on, erected on the site of a church built by Petpin the Short, through the cracks ripped by many a sacrilegious shell rang out Thursday night a solemn" chnnt ; a special service of gratitude was celebrated. From the top of the town hall the tri-color fluttered lustily in the evening breeze, proclaiming deliverance de-liverance of the 'city where Charlemagne Charle-magne was crowned, where Calvin was born, where the Merovingians once held sway, and where this summer the kaiser generals, over French champagne, cham-pagne, were fixing the day for Talis' fall. Thirty-six miles to the northwest, In the shambles that was once the flourishing flour-ishing city of Bapaume, French women and children and old men, who for nearly half a year have been s'.aves of the invader, kissed the hands of husky "Tommies," and babbled sobbing sob-bing thanks for the liberation of the town where Franc? in 1STI suffered one of her worst defeats. 'Soch is marching with even-lei'giv? boots. The real Hinden';mg line, Douai-Cambrai-St. Quencin-La Fere L;.on, is his objective, and until it is t cached there will be no stopping. In its forefield the Germans may be expected ex-pected to make their final stand. That battle, unless all signs are deceiving, will be Armageddon's last round. Reports from points on the line where the attack is in progress inmate in-mate that the Americans are con fronted nv what is believed by many to be one of the most determined stands vet taken bv the Germans, who realize that a break at any point would likely be followed by disaster. |