THE GERMAN LINES

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1918, Page 7

THE GERMAN LINES

THREE StSTEMS OP, TRENCHES.

(riEDTßtt's TELEGItAa.)

•■■''■ LONDON,2Bth\ S6ptemb6i\ Keillor's correspondent: \it American; Headquarters, writing oh tile ■ evening ol 27th September,' says i-r'-'Wa have taken What may bo considered .the ■Hindeiibufg tine, but'b«hiiid it U'a stringaf trenohea, called' She HagewteJJung,. pd ft.ehffld feat

and joined to it, are the defensive works of the Volkerstellung, which connects a series of strong places All these must be passed before the Dremihildstellung, which is the line on which the Germans' mim lelianco is placed, can be leachedi Montfaucon is the key to the whole of thi>? front, and forms a kind of hinge wheio the Volkerstellung is joined to the Hagenstellung to enable the German front to swing some 90 degiees from the" aouth to present any successful ewt from the Bois de Montfaucon in fiont of it "

["Stellung" as a military term is translated "place" or "position," and is equivalent to "line" "Hagen" is the veil> "to stop" or "to fence " "Volker" mears people "Dreimhild" is probably a proper name ]

: (ADSinALIANiNBW ZBAtAM) CABLB ASSOCUMOJt.J ■■■■ '■■''.:'J.':' Washington,: 28th;Sept;"•■ ; General-March, speaking'to an intefvieWer, said.,the Americans: had broken the Hindenburg line "west of- Verdun, aiid are now'facing'the new Dreimhild line. The; tbtaljAmerican adyancfe exceeded five miles. 1; The'Prench and: Americans had captured 1500 '(■?)" prisoners irest of iVetdun;. t'-,'■■■.■■;. :'.■;.■-'■ \\ ;-.'-'..^ ■.-■•.•.•.'" ■■'/::'■

1 lied strength. Blows on the biggeit' | scale are now coining. Never before have' there been two- offensives sifiiulUaeotiSly; on this scale.