Show UNABLE TO HALT ADVANCING ALLIES HUNS DRIVEN BACK OF POINT FROM WHICH STARTED DRIVE IN MARCH V ii We oye e in the Key to Nesle Nesle- fo Captured by French and it is Exi Expected Ex Ex- Germans Germans Will Retreat i J A Across the So Somme e I ros i London The The progress progress' of or the nuns Huns hansI I toward oward Paris laris is going fine for fot the MIles allies In fact the kaisers kaiser's army Is jus just t now bound boun for Berlin BerUn and evidently evident evident- ly y going faster every moment V Each day of the campaign n brings stories of allied successes that im arH pleasing leasing reading to the people of or the allied nations V V So great and continued were Tuesdays Tuesday's Tues Taos days day's successes of the French and British armies that it is difficult to decide where to begin in telling the story Geographically the capture of Hoe Roye in PIcard the ke key to Nesle Nesbe e by hy bythe bythe hyI I the French first filSt army is the principal I result of a day of man many triumphs From a strategic and moral standpoint the time foremost achievement was vas the ripping rip rip- ping of a l hole ole into the time old Hindenburg line Une by hy the British north of the Haig's Haigs troops at night stood full fully a amile amile amile mile and anci a half beyond that line Une from which launched his S super super- drive on March 21 Fully a score of towns and villages victorious victorious vic vic- were ere overrun by the allies in their eastward rush rush tile the French on ona ona ona a thirteen mile front between and Lacourt the British on a thirtymile thirtymile thirty thirty- mile line Une between the northeast of Arras Arras Arras Ar Ar- ras and the Chaulnes region Prisoners Hordes of them But there Is little time now for fr counting captives Both hinigan and Petain content content con con- tent themselves with r reporting hundreds hundreds hun here hundreds there and many in various other sector sectors sector V The critical stage of the whole of offensive is approaching for must decide and decide quickly I whether he can afford alord one last gamble amble to retrieve his defeats by tr to trying Ing a whether great counter offensive or the jig is up and his legions must forthwith retire all nil the way between Flanders and the time Champagne and retire retire retire re re- re- re tire not to the time old Hindenburg line but hut far beyond it to the Meuse in the time south and to the time Franco Belgian frontier frontier fron Iron tier In the north With Roye Itoye fell another ke Ie point In the stop-gap stop line to hold which the time Germans have e been struggling with desperate fury ever eer since the allied drive began When Yon Von Hutler's Hut- Hut ier's lers army arny was in the Montdidier pocket Roye bye meant to him what Fere- Fere en had meant to the crown prince In the Marne funnel Only two roads run out from fromn Roye one toward Ham hiam thirteen miles east of Ro Roye e and the other to the Somme through Nesle six and a n half miles mlles to the time northeast Ro bye Roye e Is the key to Nesle Nesie the fall of which would compel the tIme Germans to retreat across the S Somme c. c |