ENEMY RETREATING IN THREE SECTORS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14891, 14 October 1918, Page 5

ENEMY RETREATING IN THREE SECTORS.

FRENCH CONSIDERABLY BEYOND

VOUZIERS

HUNDING LINE TURNED

(Auutralian and N.Z. Cablo Association)

(Received Oct. 13, 5.5 p.m.)

London, Oct. 12,

A message this afternoon states that the Germans are retreating rapidly on three sectors. The retreat is most pronounced in Champagne.. The French have advanced considerably beyond Vouziers practically unopposed.

News from the West front emphasises the enemy's difficulties, i Our lateßt advance has turned the Hunding Line. The enemy's next lmo of retreat is roughly behind the Serre and Si&sonne barrier switch line. The British are now well in the rear of the Hunding Line.

The enemy will certainly evacuate St. Gobain massif immediately, and will also be compelled to straighten out the line between Lille and the Scarpe. It is difficult to know exactly how the enemy will join up the two lines. It depends on what the Allies have in store. The enemy's days of retirement according to plan are past. They are now evacuating the' • Chemin-des-

Dames

The French and American forces have joined hands north of the Argonrt© in the Grandpre gap.