Show I HUNS ON THE RUN i ON FRONT MONTDIDIER FALLS TO ALLIES AND GERMANS ARE RETREATING RETREAT RETREAT- ING TO THE SOMME OMME oj Americans Aid in Rolling Roiling Back Line Enemy Being Unable to Stop t the Victorious Allies in Latest f 1 Drive Toward Berlin I Paris Time The The French have driven the tho Germans before beCore them for an Important gain east eust of Montdidier In PIcard That city which was the apex of a aGerman aGerman aGerman German salient that now has been wiped out fell to 10 the I French tench fourth army at ut midday Saturday Before nightfall the time victorious French forces had carried the time battle line onward Varl to toan toan toan an average depth of ot six miles on a front of approximately twenty miles In the time three days das of engagements that culminated in III the time taking of Montdidier Montdidier Mont Mont- didier littler the French t took ok prisoners Their r capture also Included guns und and an amount of material Crushed by the time impact o of time the British Brit Brit- ish I French rench and American offensive on the time battle line from Albert northeast of A Amiens to Oiso Olse liver l' l north of Com German forces are streaming back toward the time Somme river and the r esle Noyon Kesle-Noyon oo canal So o far as can be bo determined the time en enemy my Is in full retreat retreat retreat re re- re- re treat all along the time front against which the lime allies flung themselves the latter part of the time week The Time drive drIe of the time past week In Pic- Pic j ardy was vas a complete success The Thc real 1 offensive was launch launched d from the time direction direction j tion of A Amiens within three c davs days after I tile the French mid and Americans had been definitely halted at the time Vesle river 1 Before time the crown prince could send back any divisions to to time the British and amid French swept ir- ir with tanks big and little as the time piece de dc resistance of their drive With Villers as a center the time British struck to the time north and 1 south Their northern flank of attack attack- reached almost to Albert their sou southern south hern h- h ern era to South of that the the- French were ready for attack near nem Morisel Jo and Moreuil where heavy resistance resistance re re- re- re was to b c Time The British Brit Brif- ish attacked d without artillery prepa prepa- j ration lation The Time French bombarded the time r enem enemy for fOl about 45 minutes before before- 1 moving forward to the assault Ihen limen hen they timey took tool Morisel l and in se severe so- so veto vere Meanwhile the time British Australians and Canadians had been pushing forward d south of the time Somme Somme- wl h the time apex apex of th their Ir wedge directed toward The Time first day they did mild not take talc that town which is about seven or eight miles emst east of Villers but lint they gained positions beyond it to the th north On their left flank the British did l not make pi progress ogress pm-ogress north of the Somme and on the second day of or the time fighting they lost On Chipilly that day lay hO however hOver ver the German resistance to the time south was broken by the British and Trench French who vIrn began to get Montdidier Montdidier l dier into a pocket To the north in the center the BritIsh British British Brit Brit- ish with C Canadians and amid Australians AustralIan J continued to gain toward after occupying At Chipilly j Americans were thrown u into the time fi fight ht Friday afternoon and with the time aid of the British recaptured it On Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- da day they pushed some distance beyond Chipilly and anti Morlancourt 1 in iii the sam same sam j region By this time the time enemy's lines had hall been so seriously shattered that a general gen gen- eral retirement to a wholly new line was imperative Indeed the time hl high h command command com com- coma com i mand had given ginn the time order for this retirement on the time first or second timmy day of r the time fi fight ht but even this timely provision failed to prevent the time allies fillies 1 from from capturing hundreds of cannon and thousands ds of prisoners 1 The Time American drive e In the Marne salient saUen was the tIme turning point of the time war var but hut it is doubtful whether it ob- ob tamed the time fruits that that- would seem to tobe toe 1 be e the tIme inevitable sequence of the time Franco-British Franco victor victory in which the Americans mire are successfully Ing ng Both battles have been entente successes in a special sense On the Soissons front the t. t French Drench mIll and Americans have been nibbling nib- nib bUng bling at time the enem enemy but In III the time process they hey have established some strong f across the time Vesle Vesie river 1 from rom roam which to to continue their opera- opera 1 lions ions If the Germans retreat to the Hindenburg line there will be no chance of holding the time line Une of the time Vesle 1 and the time crown prince will withdraw V without attempting to try conclusions conclusions' with t the e French and Americans south o of the time Aisne By B- means menns of ot their air supremacy the time i allies can CUll watch every evemy movement of J he time retreating enemy us if the time entire battle attle were being thrown upon a n moving ruby ing picture screen The enemy mean meun- time Is almost almo t blind His machines J 2 have ha been downed in such numbers number that he cannot c tell what the time opposing i forces forces are arc doing or planning |