VAST ATTACK ON GERMAN SALIENT

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1918, Page 7

VAST ATTACK ON GERMAN SALIENT

EMEMY WILL HAVE TO WITHDRAW HIS CENTRE

(eeuter's telegram.)

■ , ■ • - LONDON, 29th September. Reuters correspondent at French Headquarters states: "The French are steadily advancing and capturing new ground. There are numerous fires behind the.German lines. The Anglo-Belgian attack in the north, coupled with the Franco-American attack in Champagne, the Argonne, and on!the Meuse, has compelled the enemy to defend on a much vaster scale a pocket such as those which brought him disaster at the Marne and on the Avre." '. ■ : In a later'message he says:—"The whole of the enemy's front from-St. Quentiri to Reims has become a saliqnt the base of which is being vigorously attacked- on both sides, On both wings the enemy is fighting with the energy of despair as he retreats. As the result of Mangiii's advance yesterday the whole of the Malmaison plateau and the western end of the Chemin dcs Danies is in our possession. The enemy is abandoning the approaches to the massif of St. Gobairi and the-Laon Plateau, a group of heights which, for four years, has formed the central pillar of his line in France. Fochfs strategy compels him, as it did at the Harne, to withdraw his centre before the Allies' attacks from the north and the east force him to withdraw his wings. This retreat is the first fruit of the British, French, and American offensive •of the last three days."- ■•■• -:•.••■ ■.;■..'.'■■ ' .■„ . • V ..' . ,-. :