Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-04 | Page 1 | Germans in Danger of Being Caught in Top in the Champagne Salient

I Germans in Danger of Being Caught I in Trap in the Champagne Salient I Daily Growing More H Alarmed Over Aisne- H Meuse Situation. lH MAY BECUT OFF I Crown Prince Stalling ! Off Order to I FRENCH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE. Thursday, Oct. 3. (Reuter's) With the progress of the. Allies from the Aisne to the Meuse, the Germans IH are daily becoming more alarmed over IH their situation between Rheims and IH Moronvillers heights. Allied fdrces are daily nearing the IH lateral railways which permit the enc- jH my to move his reserves from point to point. During the past two days IH the advance of the Allies has made the route from the Argonne along the jfl Aire valley useless, except by night. His next line of communication is Jl twelve miles to the north. In this sector, however, the Allies jH have to deal with the German crown prince who does not desire to be the ll First German commander to give the jH order to retreat. iil General Gouraud's army had, and jf still 1ms, the hardest task of all tho t French armies. Innumerable feats of individual courage are recorded. One French soldier with an automatic rifle captured a complete German field bat- f lery. He crept up on the battery by iiH himself and shot all the gunner?. H A lieutenant, a sergeant and a pri -vatc with automatic rifles took a trench with 105 prisoners by makfng jH the Germans believe they had been outflanked in force. '1 A tribute to the skill and courago-to courago-to an adversary vas given in the last ! few days by a mortally wounded Ger- 'B man officer, who exclaimed to a French officer: "You have fought magnificently. You will be in my country by Christ-mas. Christ-mas. As a soldier, 1 congratulate Belgians' Destroy Airplanes. HAVRE, Thursday, Oct. 3. In air jH fighting on the Flanders front today Belgian aviators destroyed four Ger-man Ger-man machines, the Belgian war otllce announced tonight. jH