Arizona republican., 1917-11-23
TANKSAND CAVALRY OPEN
 WAY FOR 0NSLAUCHTS OF ] JEf;ED JEijED!.!A! AL BYNC'SI INFANTRY
Republican A. P. Leased Wlre1

The British are carrying forward successfully their maneuvers which apparently have as their objective the encirclement and capture of the i'm portant railroad junction of Cambrai in northern France.
 For three days the forces of Gen. eral Byng have been strictly keeping to their task of smashing the German positions in this region and now hav- ing driven the enemy from all his for tified strongholds are battling with him in the open, with the monstrous tanks and the dashing cavalry everywhere opening the way for onslaughts by the infantry.
 Already the British line describes an arc from the west to the southwest of Cambrai with the lower point resting near Fontaine Notre Dame, two and three quarters miles southwest of the much-sought-for town. Although the stroke of General Byng was delivered over a front of 32 miles, from the Scarpe river to St. Quentin, it was in the center and in the direction of Cam brai that it reached it's greatest strength. Here the wedge has been driven more than six and a half miles, and in the driving of it numerous towns and villages have fallen into the hands of the British many of them having been deserted by the Germans who fled in disorder leaving equipment and stores.
 The operations of the cavalry are described as most brilliant, the horse men making gallant charges into vil- lages ad even against machine gun positions, the entire gun crews of which were shot or sabered. At last re- ports they were engaged in surround IT a 1N1to If Cambrai, which dominates the entire region, including Cambrai itself, and | clearing out the enemy from the dis | trlct near FOntaine Notre Dame. The village was captured in a brilliant at | tack Wednesday night. but the Ger | mans in counter attack Thursday re- gained it. Throughout the entire area taken by the British in the drive, the 1 work of consolidating the new posi- tlons is rapidly being carried forward. l In addition to heavy losses in men, killed or wounded,s more than 5000 ! Germans had been made prisoner up to l midday Thursday. The British cas- ualties are declared to be considerably less than the number of prisoners talk en by General Byng's men.
 1 To the south of Juvincourt, in the 1 Aisne region, where the French troops took several positions from the Ger mans Wednesday a counter attack which cost the enemy serious losses
 has been effectually blocked and Gen eral Petain's troops are still holding their vantage points. South of St 1 Quentin, the French again have raided
 enemy positions at several points, de-
 stroying them and takin~ prisoners.
 Sanguinary battles are in progress in the Italian theater between the Brenta and Piave rivers where the armies of ' the Teutonic allies, greatly superior in I numbers. are striving to break through i the hill country to the Venetian plains II Hand to hand encounters are of fre- II quent occurrence and in them the Ital- | ias seemingly are holding their own and inflicting severe losses on the in- Il vaders.
 West of the upper reaches of the
 Piave where the enemey is endeavor-
 ing to gain the valley leading into Venetia, the Berlin war office claims
 the capture of Monte Fontana anc
 Monte Spinaccia, but, acording to tho
 Rome war office, except on the former position, where a few advanced Italian
 lines were reached the enemy every
 where has been repulsed. Along tho
 Piave southward to the Adriatic nc
 important engagements have takel
 place.