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 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. ——" 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. fighting Chehery and La Forges. reconnoitring, attacking the retreating For a very long time they have been con- 5 :00 P. —There has been j Ilooledge and Roulers. (3) The German withdrawal north This position was s'All further imperilled yesterday by the of the most furious nature along the In the face of heavy artillery and ma- Germans and bringing back reports. To sidered a remarkable engineering feat. and south of La Bassee shows a maximum depth of American capture »f Mont Blanc, west of Montois. The to-day. been true, chine gun fire, Illinois, Wisconsin, West- this was added the fact that the German seven For more than two years Russian and British front This has (4) cavalry, pushing through in possession of ridge gives the observation for fire especially along Beaurevoir line, in ern Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Vir- fliers seemed for once .inspired by fare- miles. .British' the gap the j this Allies Roumanian prisoners have been employed the (down valley,'/ region ginia troops, have forced the. enemy back deviltry and bravery equal to the Ameri- last Hindenburg system, are operating just west of Fresnoy, two held by the Hun. Three thousand pris- by the Huns in driving smaller sized tun- the east df Le Cateiet. The last strong line of the Hindenburg to the Kriemhilde position, south of Foret can aviators, and during the'entire morn- an advance In this wedge of about_four miles yesterday. ioners were taken in this fighting. nels to connect the canal waterway with system having been smashed and the Wood. ing, particularly.-in the centre of .the ac- the villages and sunken roads east of the British in possession of it and having After artillery preparation the Ameri- tion, they swooped over the heads, of Un- Hindenburg line. These defence plans rpcdrmoitred far in advance, the cans went over th top at half-past five American infantry only a feiv hup-Sred STILL ANOTHER U. S. AVIATOR CAPTURED BY HUNS were kept a profound secret by the Ger- Ger- mans, feeling that they were fighting o’clock and before mid-afternoon had at- metres above the earth, using isachiue HUN EVACUATION mans, but they long have boasted that with their' backs to the wall, have tained all their objectives. guns with telling effectuntil driven off. AND this defence system that they had con- MENDS PLANE FLIES AWAY launched six powerful counter attacks , The fighting was of the bitterest sort, Chiefly because of this, daring, the"'Ger- WASHINGTON, D. C.. I’riday.-- structed with such care was impregnable. during the last tweirty-four hours.. As continuing at last accounts at nearly man losses were unusually heavy and Tbe State Department was advised Under ground here they housed thou- a result of one of them the British with- every point. The Germans apparently even the American antiaircraft batteries to-day through Stockholm that Ger- sands of men, and we found their sleeping Ted Haight, of New York City, Descends in Enemy Territory, drew for a moment from Beaurevoir itself Were surprised by the attack, which had. accounted for seven machines which they man troops are moving out of Es- quarters and recreation rooms intact. and from Montbrehain to the western been expected by them two nights brought down without trouble at the thonia, and that a popular uprising is Outwits Captors and-Gets ack to One can wander for mile after mile SateßA. outskirts of the village. They retreated slightly at first short ranges they could use. more likely to take nlace there,iu the near through these vast underground passages, wjtl/otit One For these attacks the Germans used any great artilery reaction or resistance, German plane fell to the prowess of an future. It is noted, however, that there AmericanJEmes. which are filled with field equipment of two divisions which had been released but then stiffened and fought like des- infantryman who was carrying an anti- is a great scarcity of arms and am- every conceivable’ kind. The tunnel canal for from the line through the capture by the perate men throughout the remainder of tank gun captured a few moments .before munition which the people Could se- WITH. THK AM BIUC A K ARMY. The Germans circled around him to pre- through which the runs more subsidiary pas- French of St. Quentin, All the other . fh« day. and jvhieh he turned on an. aviator just cure. NORTHWEST OF VERDUN, Friday (by rent him from reaching his own lines. than.three miies and'its counter offensives failed utterly, and. ai bringing, airplane Haight descended quickly sages are lighted by electricity and were overhead, him down instantly. the Associated Press).—With his and landed in a [ ; which to-*Say drove the end of them the bodies of German The American troops Bonds riddled by machine gun bullets and field behind the German lines. The Ger- thoroughly mined. Ail of these mine , back the Germans to the Kriemf/ild posi- i— Y— dead were piled high as a result of the and Loivre, while the positions in the Aviator man airmen apparently took it granted been discovered by tion, of Foret Wood, evidently com- hemmed in by German machines. for leads, however, have _ south Betheny improved. that Haight out of rifle, machine gun and shell fire,, and tl)o posed the Eightieth and Bej®hty-sixth TO region of have been Ted Haight, of New York. city, yesterday was commission and us and cut. left his capture to the men on the ground. British were in possession of vital lines National Army divisions. Th— made up of men from WesUyvn Pennsyl- NEW FRONT severed battery wire of the German defence. THURSDAY of General Debeney is driving a wedge landed within the German .lines. After in Haight’s machine. This was quickly vania, Virginia and West Virginia, and repaired, The breach that has been made in the of into the Hindenburg line around Lesdins. huri-iedly repairing his damaged machine and before the German foot sol- BRITISH REPORTED trained at Camp Lee. and the latter could reach Haight he had system here is a narrow one and WITH THE AMERICAN. ARMY IN Every gain of ground, there increases the and got back to his own diers ascended of defence men from Illinois and Wisconsin -he ascended and making for the American Grant, 111, was lines. NEARING FRESNOY as yet, and for that reason the armored ; trained at Camp •FRANCE, Thursday (by the danger to the German troops in the St. lines, successfully dodging the astonished The German airplanes pursued him, but Eightieth announced Associated cars which went out it last night re The division, was region on ground were quick enough to army Press).—American tropps. went into ac- Gobain Forest and the entire east Germans the and in the air not to'catch the flee- as being a unit of the Third corps, ing American. BRITISH FORCES IN connoitred deeply around the new pos Wright. of La Fere. Haight was in a group of airplanes pro- WITH THE. under Major General Its com- tion this morning oh the Champagne Aviator Rollins Meyer, of Oakland, Cal., and then was Major General one their tecting American observers beyond the FRANCE, Friday (by tho Associated tions returned. Auanding officer report srrny With after another of lines pf shot down a German airplane yesterday front A from the French . by M.). The Germans now seem to he m Oronkhite. It-trained with the British in communication cut by the allied forces \meriean lines. He was attacked the near Very in a spectacular fight. Press. 11:30 A. states that they had advanced consider- thirteen machine gun bul- Al- either breach, 'Flanders, hut latey was withdrawn. operating in Champagne, combined move- Germans, and though his own motor was working badly British troops last night and this morn- active on side of the ’ The Eighty-sixth division has not long ably by noon and had taken Mont lets penetrated various parts of bis air- will 1 Rie.fcc in and east- he attacked the enemy machine and rid- ing made progress in the neighborhood pnrcntly they fear that efforts ■ I been in France, and if it were in this ments northward that region plane. thre;e of them striking the propeller. dled it with machine forcing and Medean Farm. bullets, it to of Fresnoy-le-Grand, northeast of St. made to widen it. Meanwhile the \ fighting it probably was engaging' in its ward from would make their land. His own machine came down im- A successful gas attack was made bv St. Quentin meagre the first combat. mediately nfterward near the German, Quentin, though only reports of and railways everywhere in res _ position gravely critical. The enemy pro- to-go - the Americans on this front yesterday at quarters and not for lack of power ! whose in east bound traffic, ;guY Liberty Bonos against a manoeuvre a officers surrendered to MeVer the fighting that district have been crowded with on tection such is ahead, for in that case American troopr Carrying machine gun of Vilosnes, the Meuse above Dannevoiix. employ, the the German received. i civilians are being evacuated front TROOPS ADVANCE line secondary to the Hindenburg posi- would not have been available for airplan as a souvenir, Meyer brought the OUR The German artillery fire was 'spas- [ ment with the French west of the Ar- : enemy on foot. The country behind the German lines towns. that passes by Fresnoy and Sissonne, airmen in t modic during the day. Many gas shells tion gonne. Apparently the far reaching plans BEYOND BLANC MONT sharp angle Fere along were thrown in by the enemy guns upon with a from La of the supreme commander were satisfied and Oise. made by Americans in .the American rear notably Sept- the valleys,of the rivers Serre by the progress "WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN areas, tho first three days of their rush. The ’ CHAMPAGNE. Friday (by the As- sarges Wood, Chattaneourt, the Monize- BondsA"— Americans now are engaged in local opera- Press, 2 P. M.). ville road, Dannevoux, Sachet Wood, tions on this front until the development sociated the whole front again and troops Esnes, Forges Wood and Jure Woods, WASHINGTON LOOKS of the battle along The American French calls for a thrust in this vital sector ot gained more ground to-day north of the The American engineers have removed FOR BLOW AT RHEIMS the enemy's position.

100 — important height positions of Blanc Mont more than buried German mines _ — ! <~Buy LibYrtyßon os>— and Medeah Farm, giving them, a secure from the ground evacuated by the enemy. I WASHINGTON, \D. C., Friday.—The ap- hold on the important positions won yes- American aviators were busy all day I pearance of American troops in yester- (AMERICANS SMASH ON, | XEW YORK! terday. to-day carrying out bombing attacks on day’s fighting west of the forest of Ar- TAKE FOUR VILLAGES Little by little the Americans and Confians, Longnyon, Audun, Dommary, .gonne suggested to some observers here HIT IN 9 PLACES, French also were wresting from the ene- i Buxieres, Yigneulles, Chambley, Etain. ! to-day the possibility that anew French THEN BURIED WASHINGTON. D. C.. Friday .-Gen- my the strong positions south of Orfeuil, Arnville and GrandprS. They dropped concentration is in progress and anew eral Pershing's communique for this date, IN Liry and Monthois. thirty-seven and one-half tons of bombs. blow is to be expected at any moment. DEBRIS OF SHELLED q War Department to-night, HOSPITAL The American aviators again covered Abileville, Gorze, Haydenville and The natural place for the stroke, it was received at the appears the front, reports resuming of the attack west themselves with glory and performed al- Marcq also were bombed. stated, to be Rheims the where the German lines already have been of the Meuse and the advancing of the most the impossible in to-day’s drive. In twelve days’ flying, on-, ,front Sergeant Arthur C. Totten; of thif weakened by the surrender of the St. American line two to five kilometres. New Dawn broke with mists heavy over the thirty-four successful missions ,-h'ave been Thierry plateau. Several villages were reported, taken from York, Says He’s All Right country across which the undertaken by. the American gvia toys. Now, trenches and the ' The elimination of the pocket occupied statement says:— the enemy. The with Teeth Patched tjy Wire, ——< Buy Liberty Bonds'^— 1 ■by the Germans just east of -Rheims, it October 4.—Section A—This morning | was argued, is already threatened by the the attack was resumed west of the —« -Franco-American advances yesterday on stubborn resist- ALLIES’ ABILITY TO FIGHT LONG BATTLE- Meuse. Overcoming a In a recent casualty list mention was (the heights northwest of Monthois and advanced line two to ance, we have our made of Sergeant Arthur C. Totten, of SURPRISE TO HUN AND EXPLAINS CONFUSION (the simultaneous forward movement of kilometres, carrying Hill 240, noi-th five Company C, 165th Infantry, having i the- French northwest of Rheims. Com- Exermont, and taking from the as re- - of villages ceived nine wounds on July 28. letter reserves ! paratively little advance by the two wing3 enemy the og Gesnes, Flex- A WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN than they planned. .Each tirnd from Sergeant Totten to his. sister's hus- of pocket, it i3 thought, should force vllle, Chehery and Laforge. the resultsr'haye been negative,, ; this, heavy band, Wilfrec] M. Thompson, of No. 150 FRANCE, Friday (by the Associated further In the face of artillery and ma- Murray complicating general ja hasty evacuation. fire, troops from Illinois. street, Flushing, received yester- the situation behind chine gun day, gives Press). The Franco-American thrust is nearing Wisconsin, Western Pennsylvania, the details of the engagement the German lines..- ... i in which he great ■ ■ Virginia and West .Virginia, and regu- was wounded. 2 P. M.—The four battles that Vouziers, a rail junction of importance to “Were you surprised One of the most important successes troops belonging to Major Gen- to hear I was : the enemy. the other side of the lar wounded?’’ have been in progress since September yesterday was fighting On corps, forced writes Sergeant Totten. "I in the on the eral R. L. Bullard’s the have nine wounds, P.heims sector the French already are Ivriemhilde positions divided into two by . 30 from Flanders to the Meuse were in- height - on which the Medeah Farm is eney back to the machine gun on the Aisne in the vicinity of Berry- the Bois De Noret. bullets and seven from ;'i, • \ . • - entry into action of situated. (This point was captured by south of shrapnel. We were making at l creased to six by the :au-Bac, of the pocket Capture of Blanc Mont and other posi- attack on American troops aiding the French in and the pinching out a town up a hill. The Bocho had machine General Debeney's men around St. Quen- tions in Champagne was reported by Gen- guns This probably would permit extention of the communique galore, and going up that hill I got Champagne). height gives the allied eral Pershing in his for two machine gun tin and General Berthelot’s forces north- line along the general course of the Aisne- announcing further gains by bullets. I started to artillery command of,-a'widp stretch of Thursday, crawl to the rear and I was continually !Suippes rivers to juncturo with the the American forces fighting with the west of Rheims, and all continue with territory sloping westward . toward the a being fired upon by German snipers. French. I ] Franco-Americans in the high ground be- had crawled about a SERGEAHT ARTHUR,~ j great intensity. Blow after blow is being River Suippe an.d the valley of the Suippe communique follows: kilometre when a tween these two rivers. The shell landed in front of mo and gave me C- TOTTENS 1 strongholds of and the . River Arnes.-north of Moron- HEADQUARTERS AMERICAN EX- seven shrapnel dealt the Germans in their There is no high or heavily wooded FORCES, October woundb. I walked to the villiers. Guns posted on the slopes of PEDITIONARY 3. dressing station. The Boche . Hindenburg and subsidiary occupation of the Section troops fighting started to the lines. Medeah , be to ground to impede the A.—American shell the dressing station and Height will able bombard French have driven back the before it -The endurance the Allies have shown Aisne line for a considerable distance. with the was over we were covered with ddbris. J Mrs -Wilfred M. the rear of the German positions on the French enemy and taken Blanc Mont and other Thompson, in Flushing. in sustaining with ardor the The establishment of the on this thought it was m.v finish. My lower jaw •Mie Ims two other undiminished Monts Champagne, east of Rheims, front would outflank the enemy positions positions in Champagne. Between tho sons In the service—- over df Is broken and I have my teeth wired to- l-rank U Totten, ensign in the severe struggle so extended a front in Laon from the southeast, precisely as Moselle and the forest of Argonne wo gether. Hleecker navy, and and to enfilade their lines >,of retreat artillery Samuel iotton, Officers’ Train- .against such formidable works surprised the British smash toward the Oise Valley : carried out. the usual and ‘’Vou should have seen ing Camp, Waco, Texas. toward tho north. from flanks both activity, taking a number of us make the ihe enemy. There many indications; north of St. Quentin St. patrol Boche pm. We advanced so fast our are up prisoners. ar- that the Germans expected that exhaus- The German reserves brought to de- Gobain forest and Laon from the north-, tillery couldn’t, keep up with us. We cap- fend that height and who could not do it west. Liberty — tured cannon, machine guns, rifles, am- tion would have obliged the Allies to stop The result of a successful squeeze opera- BonosT munition, are continuing to-day to make vain coun- millions of shells and huge for a breathing spell long before this. tion against the Rheims pocket is full of quantities of supplies. Our slogan was, ter attacks in an effort to stop the- allied promising possibilities to some officers, FLYING FIELD NAMED The Germans knew where they were to ’Heaven, hell or Hoboken by Christmas!’ ’*■ for the enemy no sooner would extricate Sergeant attacked, but they appear not to have advance. QUENTIN ROOSEVELT Totten is a member of tho fam- be his forces from this menace than he would FOR ily after which Fort Totten was General Berthelot's find named. rightly gauged the reserve forces thei West of Rbeims himself in an exactly similar trap on Ills grandmother’s pcoplo were the origi- ■ [SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD.) Allies were to throw ijito the fray. This! army now holds the entire lino of the a wider front to .the north. nal Bleeckers who in tho early days of Whatever Marshal Foch may be plan- HEMPSTEAD, L. 1., Friday.—ln mem- .Now York owned what is called tho hypothesis partly explains the German! Aisnc Canal between Rheims and the ning every expect there is reason to im- of Roosevelt', the new third Bleecker Farm. Bleecker street was -eogfusion that hns been noticeable at River Aisne, excepting bits in the salient mediate blows ’on various sectors, in the orry Quentin been named Roosevelt Field: named after this family. various times and places lately. of Saplgneul-Moscou and near the road opinion of observers here. It is now obvi- field here has Sergeant Totten Major given .the., served on the Mexican ous .that-the advance -of -General No name had been .to, field a The Germans have been- obliged ''to fronl Titdvrb to Courcy. The daifal' hns ready border as member of tho Seventy-first Liggett's army along the Meuse has been heretofore, as it has been only a volunteers. make an entirely different use of their beer crossed at T.;l Neuyllic. T-e Godot supreme regiment, Hater ho was halted under orders fro tn head- short time. transferred to the Sixty-ninth and to the 165t1i infantry and has been in France since October. 1917. Mrs. Samuel Bleecker Totten, Sergeant Totten’s mother, lives with her daughter,