South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-27
HOLD CAMBRIA
At ALL costs"
HINDENBURG
Counter Attacks by Germans
in Bourbon Wool RepulSed,
However. and British
Consolidate Gains.
Interne tIonal - -

Interna tional News Service.
LONDON. Nov. 27.-Re-
forming their shattered forces,
the Germans renewed their
counter attacks in front of Cam
brai during the night, but all
were repulSed, the war office an
nounced today
British positions at the north
west corner of Bourbon wood
were heavily assaulted, but the
attacks were crushed by the ter
rife fire of British artillery and
machine guns.
Bourbon wood. which was the
scene of violent lighting on sunday.
lies less than two miles west OF
Cam brai and just north OF the ruins
OF what was once the village OF
Fontaine Notre Dame Il rests mp
on high ground which dominates
the German stronghold Of Cambria
and so long as they retain it the
British can rake Cambria with their
fire.
Furious Fight i'm Mood.
Bourbon wood is the farthest point
that the British lines have been az
vanced IN the encirclinE movement
against Cambria and the Germans
are struggling furiousIy but fruit
lessly 10 dislodge them. The wood is
slightly less than three miles from
the Arras-Camb rai road and when
this highway is cut Field Marshal
Haig's forces will have opened the
way for a drive behind the defences
or Queant.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg.
the driving force OF the great Ger
man war machine. has ordered that
Cambria be held 20 the last man."
according 10 statements made by
prisoners captured in the fierce
struggle raging around Bourbon
wood.
As the German line in the west
stands today the fan ~ this strong
hold would be a strategic calamity
10 the Germans. and the divisions
battered into wrecks by the British
drive against the Cambrai defences
are being reformed and sent back
into the fray as fast as the officers
can perform the task.
Artillery Rushed 10 Front
German artillery. held ia reserve
az the base OF Lille. has been rush
ed 20 the front and is now posted
behind Cambria, Queant and Eulle-
court Smelling the British lines.
That Field Marshal Haig has the
Germans guessing is shown boz their
nervousness.
Dispatches from the front TODAY
said that German batteries an along
the front from Lens 20 ST. Quentin
keep a steady shower II star shells
lighting up the field from sunset 10
dawn, not knowing where The rexr
thrust viii be made
The Germans apparently fear the
British tanks more than tneE 20 The
infantry for the tank attack deliver
ed on the first dsy Of the attack did
more than anything else to smash
the Hindenburg line and they have
put a wholesome fear into the
hearts OF the TeutOns
In front OF Cam brai the British
have continued 10 launch their chef
pressure northwest Of Cambrsi ar
tempting 20 drive between the Ger
man base and Queaut and thus -ct
in the rear OF the German defeuce-
along the -Queaut switch "a
series Of position. supporting me
northern end Of the Hlndenburg
line
The big objective ~ the British
which lies behind all OF the onen
sive operations in northern France
since the opening OF the attacks in
the spriGg is 10 break through 10
the French coal nelds and indus
trial district which lies behind the
Hindeuburg line.
Military experts express th- opIn
ion that the fighting viii continue
through the winter. iu spite nf in-
clement weather and muddy terrain