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Show RETREAT GETTING OUT Klf It Germans Being Forced to "More Precipitate Withdrawal All Along the Line. WASHINGTON. Sept. 3. Reports from the British front today indicated to officers here that the German retirement, re-tirement, heretofore conducted with skill, was getting out of hand. Under the pressure of the British and French all along the lino from Ypres to Soissons. Sois-sons. the enemy is being forced to a more precipitate withdrawal particularly particu-larly on the old Drocourt-Queanf front where Marshal Haig's men hammered forward irresistibly again today. The official announcement from London 'that more than 10,000 prison-oners prison-oners have been taken in two days" of fighting on this front in itself indicates, indi-cates, it Is said, that there is growing disorganization in the German ranks. Pershing's Men in teash. It was evident observers believe the time is fast approaching'when General Pershing's first field army will participate partic-ipate in the battle ,on the theory that General Foch has been withholding this new and vigorous force for a decisive de-cisive blow when the time was ripe. The British have broken a decided gap in the old German fortified line and the fall of Cambrai, Douai, St Quentin and several other rail and I road centers upon which tho Hinden-1 burg lino depended seems imminent-If imminent-If the enemy intended to fall back upon this line ho was forced into a general withdrawal along his whole I front from Rheims to Ypres, his i chances are rapidly dwindling as the British lines surge forward at the very center of the great battle front Haig Moving on Cambrai. Marshal Haig's forces arc moving on Cambrai, tho koy to a large sec- lion of the old line and if that place I is taken it appears that the enemy will bo forced to evacuate tho salient In jwhirh he is rapidly being pocketed by 'the French and American advance on the OIse-Allei.c line3 In the souch and the British thrust eastward from Pe-rcnne''to Pe-rcnne''to the north. So evident is the growing disorganisation disorgani-sation among tho Germans, some officers offi-cers think it possible the enemy may be forced to a withdrawal to the Rhine this year. Others feel the skill the' German leaders have displayed does j not warrant any anticipation of anJ early collapse. |
