The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-26
Hindenburg Drawing Every
Available Unit From Other
Fronts to Keep Line Intact
HAIG OR PETAIN MAY
ATTACK ANY MOMENT
Teutone Hope for Resiful
Winter IN Snug Dugouts
Swept Away by Flood of
Flame and Steel

London, NOV. s5.--"Bingo Byna'
as the Tommies call him now. is still
sma shing ahead.
Less than two and a half miles now
separate his army from Cambria
This afternoons departing sun, ac-
cording to Correspondents at the
front. saw the British hack In Bour-
ION wood. bac}p in Bourbon village,
back on all the high ground positions
that dominate the immediate APP
proaches TO the big German military
depot
It was no easy shedding, Five days
and four nights the man -to-man COM
bat has gone on now, and the end is
not yet. Each position, particularly
the wood and -uiliase~eftttes ,.rrfe
name. changed hands half dozen
times
But tonight the English tish
Welsh combination seemed 10 have &
stranglehcld on all or thenl THE big
British guns have begun the BON
hardment of Cambria itself, That
town is a surging sea OF Teut3n re-
serves, coming to save the day. go
ing defeated.
In the sheil-raked. tank swept rags
of the Hinden burg line Germany IS
fighting 10 save the fruits of her one
great offensive OF the year on which
she had staked all From. every part
of the western front Hindenburg is
drawing every available unit of re-
Inducements to restore the line that
bore his name the line that was "a
alold until Russia ana Italy are dis
posed Of
While Hindenburg was in the act OF
"disposing OF italy following his
sudden smash on the Isonzo, tBingr
Byng" and hts tanks came along and
outsurprised the Hindenburg sur
prise. and now the Teutons are he.
tween this devil in the west and ths
unfinished Italian job in Eenetia. To
draw reserves from the Piave or Tren-,
tino fronts would spell doom to the
enterprise there, already threatened
by the ever stiffening Italian resist
ance. 1t is a question of leaving the
west front to take care of itself.
So. from verdun. from the Cham
payne, from the Aisne and from Elan
ders Hindenburg is drawing troops,
troops. and more troops, perilously
thinning his fronts in those sectors,
In any OF which Petain or Haig may
strike a blow any hour.
That stupendous tank drive OF Cen
eral Byng's last Wednesday and its
logged continuation have wrecked
the fond plan OF the Teuton high com
mand TO rest in the west this winter
and when spring came TO throw the
huge Austro- German forces from
Italy and Russia against the Franco
Srftish American armies There VIII
be no rest this winter" is the message
Byngs men and guns are delivering
every hour OF the day and night. It
~ "A In
geddon is to be fought in snow. some
where between the North sea and the
Vosges.
This was the bioodiest Sabbath IN
the west since verdun. The carnage
began at dawn. after n night OF earth
shaking gunfire. German reserves.
hustled into Cambrai from North and
South In the darkness Of the night,
were flung into the fray. They clashed
with the English and Scottish ana
Welsh attackers In and around Bour-
Ion wood and village. The dominating
hill in Bourbon wood Is to the British
what bridge iS 10 a ships captain.
From il they can survey the course
before them. Empiaced upon 1t their
guns can clear their way. and BYns
can see his ship" through TO Cambria.
To the Teutons 1t is the last bastiou
In this section of their '.tmpregnAhle
line. The slaughter that took place
on that Hill today was correspondingiy
fierce. The results reported as night
fell were. for the British. the most IA
yorable since the drive began.
The British war ONCE in it's bulletins
ON, aasixe the stubbornness OF the Tsu-
ton resistance. as IL to impress upon
the public mind that II Is not an Ga
cursion that Is going on here. but one
Of the really great battles of the war
Throughout the day. as in the pre-
vious days except the first. the bat
ties fortunes swayed whimsically from
one side to the other but the end saw
the Britirt decidedly helaiHR the upper
hand For the moment dashtnG cav
airy charges have been discontinued.
| The Teutons, recovered from the ini-
tial blow. have arrayed a powerful line
OF guns to meet the attacks. and the
! labyrinth of dugout fortressss dotting
the Teuton front are reducing the test
! once more 70 ono between guns ana
guns. infantry and infantry. so Cen
| oral Bynx's horsemsn have dismounfed
and are lighting side by side with their
| comrades. showing the same vaior and
| tenacity that won them % much glory
| In the early stage Of the Cambrai drive
t At last accounts the viifAge Of Fon-
/ tains Natse- Dawe was st4H burutnG III
many parts. Abandoned by the Iou-
tons Ths Britfnh werA~makfn9 0tnnB