The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-22
Advance on Three Sides of Ger
man keystone Fortress.
Hail General Byng's Victory as
Wars Greatest.
FONTAINE NOTRE DAME FALLS
More Than Score of Towns
Captured in British Sweep.
IntimatiOns Strong Hun Re-
treat Is Being Cut OF.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SINIMs.

With the British Armies Beyond the
Hindenburg Line, Nov. 22.-At some
points on what used to be the i'm
pregnable Hindenburg lines, British
troops this afternoon had penetrated
more than eight miles.
Ny personal estimate, from num-
bers reported by various guard COM
panies. is that more than ten thou
sand Germans have been captured.
The penetration of eight miles at
some points is from headquarters re-
ports early today. BY this time, the
indications are that the Tommies have
swept on even further than this.
Seven counter attacks have failed to
stop their progress.
The Germans effort were weak
ones. All failed miserably in the VIC
tory inspired onslaught of Byng's men.
The German casualties were heavy
Great numbers of German guns
have been taken. No effort has been
made as vet, because of the very enor-
nifty of the task, to make a detailed
count of prisoners and material.
Spread Out Wedge.
T.ondon. Nov. 22.-The six-mile
wedge driven into the German de-
fenses in the British offensive on the
Arras-St Quentin front is penetrat-
ing still deeper and spreading out on
some stretches of the front the bIIIlstl .cI7il
troops have broken into the enemy
final defense line. All the German
counter attacks have been repulsed.
(By the Associated Press.)
Further progress. by General Byngs
victorious army toward Camor1 IS re-
ported today. British troops pushed
further along the Bapaume-Cambrai
road and captured the town of Fon-
taine Notre Dame, two and three
quarter miles from Cambria.
Today's war office statement from
London confines itself to reporting
this single operation. What is gong
on within the remainder of the wide
field of the British offensive so spec
tacularly begun on Tuesday remains
yelled by official reticence.
News dispatches from London, how
ever, indicate that everything has not
been told of the extent of the British
victory. Emphasis is laid on the fact
that the cavalry is reported in action
in large numbers while some reports
declare that British forces have push
ed northward from. Graincourt behind
the broken wing of the Hindenburg
line, potentially imperilling the retreat
of the Germans, who were entrenched
between the Bapaume-Canbrai road
and the Scarpe river, opposite ArraS-
nounces its continuance. coupled with
n denial that the front was broken,
altho admitting that the British had
gained ground beyond the German
front lines"
1t claims further the pushing back
of Byng's troops west of Cambria,
where they had advanced north of
Fontaine and AnneuX, and a similar
German success southwest of Cam
brai where the British We're forced to
give ground south of Rumilly- Rum
lily itself however is within u
miles OF Cambria and the German
mention of a starting position" here
evidently means the line from which
the British yesterday began a resump-
ton of their attack after their origi-
nal advance which reached nearly
five miles at this point
London, Nov. 22.-The village of
Fontaine Notre Dame has been cap
tured by the British in their new
offensive the war office announces.
Capture Village Today.
Triumphant in their brilliant stroke
against the Hindenburg line, British
troops are pushing on Cambria, now
less than three miles away. In two
days the British have gained as much
ground as in the first four months
of the battle of the Somme.
The brave British infantry tore
such holes in the German defenses
that British cavalry is now taking
mart in the drive toward Cambria and
the Belgian border beyond Surprised
by the suddenness of the thrust Tues
day. the Germans fought back We'd
nesday, but the British pushed stead
lily toward the immediate goal.
Main Effort on Is Mile Front.
While the British attacked on a
front of thirty-two miles between St.
Quentin and the Scarpe their main
effort was on a fifteen mile front west