PAGE TWO. VEW YOnK FTF.B.VI.T) SATURDAY. OCTOBER .5. lSlg PART TWO. ALLIES ON LAND AND SEA ARE SIX POINTS WHERE HUN IS IN RETREAT PERCIVAL PHILLIPS TELLS BLASTING HUNS FROM BELGIUM; OF BITTER FIGHT THROUGH BRITISH ARE NEARING lf] Eyndh^cnVwJ* * BRITISH ADVANCED FRESNOY f \I WHICH M^r ,iPPi OT! Turfauf JL St and are Quentin that working between gpast defene.es; incessantly for the last iContiauetl l’rom J'agt One). in -Flanders is ablaze vfrtdallj; every- the Scarpe and the two/day®. naval operations are di- ° where. From prisoners comes the in- Lys. The - Bl ’ in Lokeren for the German, gun- that The development of the British break- reetbd perfect co-operation with the J ~f j^*****\^j very heavy odds, formation the Germans are making command of the Allies, who are slowly ners tried to poison them during their six hurried preparations to evacnate the. through east of Le Catelet proceeded to- butsurely squeezing the enemy out of the hoars’ cheek at the Beaurevoir trenches Dune country of Belgium along the sea- day in the face of extremely strong Ger- whole of Western Belgium. with, their vicious gas, which corrodes coast. Dugouts arc being blown- up man / resistance. Not less than sis <zoun- Handicapped by a terrain that is almost I * the flesh and causes blindness. It was there. - ter sc I attacks were launched against some bottomless mud, tho forces that are being { [ (o oiJ n / pumped into the rttuks in shells, but the In the Armentibres sector the retreal parts of r~ J. fTG.SIWc the new line, but, with/'one or led by King Albert are pushing steadily Australians never slackened their efforts. of, the Germans continues. The British two possible exceptions, all tht/ ground around both Roulers-and Thourout. They M^pfcri Sweep Yillnge with Machine Ginns. are now weli to the east of .Lens; Mori taken on Thursday was held. Inhere were seemed to have flanked the former town court, southeast of Lens, has been cap- * Beaurevoir was not entered. The Ger- reports early in the day of cavjalry patrols 1 on both the north and„the south and .are ti\vfewv mans swarmed among the houses and’the tured by Haig's men. searching the country to the out- almost only awaiting a favorable opportunity to trench streets, but the Australians The Belgians, together with French skirts of Fresnoy, but it is certain that riddled close in and occupy itA The advance di- took a windmill and a large farm, from ! troops, have reached a point 2,000 yards no strong force is out to' that distance. rectly toward Thourout.has been stopped which they could sweep the village with south of Hooglede and 1,000 yards south- As closely as can be determined, the main while similar envelopment* operations are their machine guns. Their advance dur- east of the Chnpelle-Roulers road. action is on a line bulging slightly east- carried out. The, road between the two ing day them for a Civilians are being moved in a hun\ ward between Beaurevoir and Sequekart, the carried forward towns has been cut and the railway and distance of three-quarters of a mile from Courtrai, fifteen miles east of including in the arc. Montbreh/lin highway from the latter to Ostend' are along a front of two miles. Ypres. The enemy here./nowever, is making all well under the control of Allied cannon. It was a magnificent feat, for they There are no signs of fresh German re- his plans for a;farther retirement and it Immediately south of this, .Belgian were tired after their constant fighting. serves anywhere. There is every indi- is probable his energetic counter at- tha£ Flanders country the enemy iamontinn- The German infantry opposing them cation of disorganization not only in the , tacks are strong rear guard engagements ing his withdrawal in front of Lille. It toward evening included less worn men. enemy infantry but in the artillery. Riots for the further strengthening of a line j seems evident now that he has no inten- capture of the adjoining villages of are reported to have occurred among cer- which wUI run from Fresnoy I The sharply) tion of abandoning this city-—the largest Kamicourt, AVaincourt and Seqnehnrt by tain German units in which even their south to/La Ffire, where he continues enemy ? to) (in France in hands—without a 5 Huifork English and Scottish troops brought Ger- officers participated. .. have the protection of the St. Gobain I fight. The observers on the British front' Arnjep/ fOervku' man reserves into the battle from other A British officer familiar with the en- forest on his left, and then will follow believe the that line selected for his next parts of the front Montbrehain was tire German situation in Flanders said:- the valleys of the Oise and the Serre to is that Canal, afstOgHtl j stand of the Hau.te-Deule wJLTsJs> the scene of great carnage during the “Nothing would surprise us. T’hismay Sissonne. From Sissonne it will cany on which comes r from the south back of Lens / Mjoß b au that, our troops had a footing turn into a rout now.” rp link up with the line of :n \ lbe mrjfb* *s eight honrs the Aisne and skirts the western edge of the city, thirty- is that - it, and they took prisoners from There tangible evidence the, Champagne. This would present a strong turning and north- ~ in thence to the north eight German battalions, representing Germans realize their position northeast front for his immediate needs, although west. Tho British have remained in touch cr > \ s^p!!*£+.^A^j^AruOn ?r\ /rSecflin nine different divisions.- While the Mid- of St. Quentin is extremely precarious, it has a particularly weak point in the the" rearguards, which' have .just > | With- RebheiS/ Mouzorkft \ AfT in- Montbrehain . several for the roads in the-rear of the breached '-harp angle at La Ffeere. At any rate, it passed through :.Erquiitghpm, which' is landers were houses in the village blew up. Apparently Hindenburg line are congested with traf- is his noxtrTiope when he is blasted out slightly south of about six miles west of had mined the entire place, fic. slight remaining portion he holds of the Germans of the" the citadel Lille. No news has come Cnout tun as weil os the canal, and many charges! The railways are jammed with of Picardy and the Soissonais. through for days statns of three on the exploded. terial moving eastward at a great rate, , The allied war ships which have mhim General Plumer s line along’ tho Lys, were Our withdrawal from Montbrehain to and on some roads British aviators hayr ’ taihed a ceaseless patrol of the Belgian which flanks the city on the north. The our line just west of that village did not observed a straggling stream of civilians coast since the Hun established, himself in ! last reports had a portion of his force ■ any way the essential gains who are being hurriedly evacuated from T- Ostend in 1914, and have done so much to j across the river between ,Warneton and reduce in which we made, during the day. We had the rear. discourage all unnecessary movement in | Comines, moving in the direction of Beaurevoir trench system, thus Thq Beaurevoir line . having been Ktbe dune country, have been pounding the Tourcoing. broken the I leaving the Hun in hiidair. Indeed, cur pierced, the Germans smm, if not now. ——<TBuy Liberty — Bonos~>" thrust into the German-held territory ap- will find the greatest difficulty in arrest- AMERICANS MAKE BIG ADVANCES parently had the effect of accelerating ing the progress of the British. Prison the enemy’s preparations for withdrawal ers -say they were given orders to hold on n :m "'all ° ON BOTH SIDES OF ARGONNE FOREST J from the villages which lie immediately to the last moment in order to give the S“IE MMS Iv&r'tus beyond the tunnel: labyrinth from St. Germans an opportunity to construct a o °r . which beyond doubt WITH the AMERICAN ARMY Americans were to go, and it was hours li£\S?Mihrel Quentin to Cambrai, line at Valenciennes. by Fresnoy NORTHWEST OF VERDUN, Friday before tho weather cleared sufficiently/to was the most wonderful shelter used British thrusts between and we discovered of Scarpe (By the Associated Press). permit of any observation to speak, of. the Germans that Ipive the River show that the Germans YESTERDAVS BATTLE LINE holding desperation J The Americans resumed the attack this The splendid liaison that marked the' the western front. are on With the£e, ’runnels Started In 1709. probably in an effort some morning west; of the Meuse and udvanced day’s operations and which was nearly (1) German coast defence forces are reported preparing) (5) General Berthelot, around Rheims, >s expanding his to save p£"(heir These subterranean galleries originally material and heavy guns. rtheir lines from two to five kilometres. ideal under, the circumstances was due in to evacuate the Belgian coast. Their fortified works in) territory and, with (6) General Gouraud’s Franco-American • 240, part were begun in 1769 and work on them They captured Hill north of Exer- great to the work of the aviators, the dunes are being destroyed. (2) The British, French army, is operating a secondary pincers to work the enemy Parlous Plghtl&g East of te Catelet. mont, and the villages of Gesnes, Flemille, who c-ountleos times was continued at various times since then. risked their lives in and Belgian armies are making progress in the vicinity of out of' the somewhat flat salient just north of Rheims.