BRILLIANT ADVANCE BY THE ALLIES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 277, 12 August 1918, Page 5

BRILLIANT ADVANCE BY THE ALLIES

25,000 PRISONERS & IMMENSE BOOTY

■GERMAN PANIC IN EVIDENCE

ALLIES REACH CHAULNES

To-day's news from tho Western front is a cheering, almost sensational oudget. The Allies, developing the new offensive cast and south of Amiens, havo achieved surprising and substantial results., Tho Germans are retiring in Flanders; our advanco at some points has reached over eleven miles; we havo taken Montdidier, and, including the captures there, our prisoners to date now total 25,000, with immenso stores of war material. The Allies' patrols are reported to have entered Chanlnes, which is vital to the enemy's supply system on this sector. Tho enemy says one reviewer, has now two courses open to him-eithor to concentrate his available forces in a pitched battle designed to cheek the Alliesadvance, or retreat to a defensive lino and save his men. Other reviewers caution the public against premature conclusions that tho end of tie .war is now in eight. Mr. Lloyd George says that there may yet be occasional dark days, but that we "were going to win." Others say that the ehanco of a successful German counter-move is rapidly diminishing The most significant feature of the news is the evidence, everywhere apparent, of the enemy's first surprise and his subsequent panic-stricken flight. Whole batteries have been found deserted besides piles of ammunition; official documents and personal belongings litter the battlefield. On the Vesle front the fighting has settled down, and is now apparently resolving itself into a stiff tussle for the possession of the Vesle heights.