The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-24
Germans Hurled Back Amid
Desperate Fighting.
Italy Holds Back Enemy in
BlOodiest Clash of War.
100 GUNS FALL TO BRITISH
Are Throwing Encircling Move-
ment About Cambria.
Captured German Guns Are
Turned on Fleeing Huns.

With the British Armies in the
Field, Nov. 24.-General Byng today
! fought his way back to within two
miles of Cambria.
The Germans were hurled back
upon Fontaine Notre Dame. The
town is now in flames.
The Germans are falling back upon
Proville. a suburb of Cambria proper
Fontaine Notre Dame is believed to
have been evacuated entirely by the
enemy, so that it is now no man s
land
Desperate fighting has marked the
continued advance of the British, but
| they have pushed the nose of the
wedge driven thru the Hindenburg
line back to within two miles of the
city serving as the German supply
center.
Capture Observation Posts.
Bourbon wood, where numerous and
valuable observation posts had been
esta blished by the Germans has been
captured.
AT Moeuvrec. where the British
made further advances, field guns
captured from the Germans were
turned almost point blank on the re-
treating enemy.
Close hand to hand work marked
lilS LIZ llliIiS dI several points IN Iho
line as the British resisted the Ger
man counter attacks and then moved
forward in new assaults of their own.
(By the Associa ton Press
General Byng has settled down to
steady push against the German
lines west of Cambria, after his re-
cent rapid forward DASH and has
front of nearly six miles. Inciden-
tally it is now announced that more
than 100 guns were captured by the
British during their offensive, includ-
ing numerous heavy pieces.
. The British pressure now is being
mainly directed northward on the east
and west line. running between Fon-
taine and Queant. The apparent OBJ
ject is not only to carry the encircling
movement about Cambria further to
the north and east, but to drive in
behind both the former Hindenburg
: line as it bears off to the northwest
and the Queant-Drocourt switch, thus
> rendering the latter useless, as a sec
ondary line of defense against an at
f.. tack from the west.
In this operation. valuable high
ground around the dominating Bour-
| Ion wood, to the west OF Cambria, was
taken and progress was made further
west on both sides of the Canal du
/ Nord, near Moeuvres and Queant Ad-
/ ditional ground also was gained in
! the neighborhood of Bullecourt.
| Italy Holds Enemy Back.
| The Italian front is still holdine
| firmly altho it's defense is costing the
| Italians heavily in men. There were
! further efforts by the Austro- German
! masses 20 break thru to the west end
| of the line, between the Asiago plat
/ eau and the Brenta but General Diaz's
| troops successfully withstood all these
carefully prepared thrusts.
! The Piave river line remains intact
! and apparently the enemy efforts to
force it are no longer serious. althc
Rome today reports the breaking uI
by artillery fire of hostile attempts tc
| lay pontoons.
In the important mountain from
| between the Brenta and the Piave, the
! struggle is still a desperate one Nc
further progress is claimed by Berlin
{ i'm this sector. On the contrary the
/ Italians have been counter-attacSins
heavily altho Berlin declares without
!