GERMANS LOSING.

Northern Advocate, 30 August 1918, Page 3

GERMANS LOSING.

BIG BACKWARD MOVES.

HINDENBURG LINE BULGING.

PERONNE OUTFLANKED.

N.Z. COAL CRISIS.

TENSION RELAXED.

Rapid development of the Allied success is recorded in late cables to-day, which state that Peronne has been outflanked by tne British, and that a similar threat la offered by the French between the Somme river and Chauny. The latter forces have also captured Breuil and crossed the Dv Nord Canal.

Such' exceptional haste is being shown by the Germans m thensouthern withdrawal that the French forces yesterday were enabled to progress over six miles at some points, with a general widtu or nearly 19 miles. Vast acumulations of war material were left behind, including three complete trains. Forty villages were contained in the evacuated territory. Occupation of Chaulnes by the French receives official confirmation to-ady. It is also reported from New York that the whole ot Bapaume has capitulated at last, and that both Noyon and Gmchy have been captured. The active advent of General Home's army (the First British) over a stretch of several miles, means that the Western battlefront is now 56 miles in extent. The historic Hindenburg line has been breached for a couple of miles by the British capture of Hancourt, while Combles is also closely menaced. Pentration along the Scarpe, as a sequel of the British advance from Arras, has now gone a mile eastward beyond any point previously attained in that region. The latest Canadian thrust, on a Bye-mile front, has outflanked the Arras-Cambrai road positions ot the Germans. The tension of the New Zealand mining dispute is relaxed by the owners agreeing to a proposed conference with the men. it is understood that this is conditional on an immediate resumption ot W ° r Austria's claim to the re-conquest of Berat, in Albania, is said to be authenJicran" it is asserted by General March that the Italian forces have been compelled to retreat.