Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-04-15
POWERFUL THRUST
CRUSHING TEUTONS
ON WESTERN FRONT
Eight Miles Of the Northern
End of Hindenburg Line
Turned by British and
Two Important Cities
About to Fall.

Two Important Cities
About to Fall.
London. April i&.--ovcr the same
rich fields where Attils ana his Huns
were driven back In the bygone ages.
British troops tonight were ramming
tho Germans backward In such power
ful thrusts that London began figuf-
ing on Teutonie retreat to the Bel
gian border.
Eight miles OF the northernmost end
of the vaunted Hindenburg line have
been turned by the British drive. The
central point of the new front--Cam-
brai--is menaoed. The southernmost
pivot point--St. Quentin--is within
grasp of tho Franco British forces.
Field Marshal Haig poured his forces
out In an unstemmed tide eastward
and northward from tho vimy ridge.
every wave of encroachment driving
the British nearer to Lenp. center Of
Frances coal industry.
TWO CITIES m FLAMES.
Both st, Quentin and Lens were re-
ported In flames--the customary Ger
man precaution before evaouating.
Around st, Quentin. British forces
reached Fayet. q little over mile TO
the northwest, while General Nivelle's
French forces redoubled their bonn
bardment from positions just a trifie
further distant TO the south.
Around Cambria. British forces
pushed forward around Queant and
Prohwille, 10 miles distant.
The days fiercest fighting was at
the northernmost point of this b0-mile
front, where Canadians eager to add
to their laurels In tho taking OF the
blood-soaked vtmy ridges. were but
ting against desperate German oppost-
tion to their occupation or LIens.
LENS DOOMED CITY.
Capture OF the city of Lens by Gem
eral Hsig's forces became more OF a
certainty today when the town OF Lie
win, adjoining the doomed German
stronghold was captured.
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further into tho vaunted Htndenburg
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