The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-03
Lens and Queant In
 Allied Possession
 With Other Towns
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 of joint between the North sea and Rheims, however, and would be like ly to force the evacuation of great part of northern France now occu- pied by the Germans.
 Operations by the French ard Americans in the south may be count ed on to work toward such a result. There is a hint in today's dispatches that some development of importance is impending on the southern front, where the left flank of the linden burg line is under Franco-American pressure.
 London, Sept. 8, p. m.-The Brit ish have captured the city of Lens.
 The town of Queant also has been taken.
 Lens was evacuated by the Ger mans, the British moving in.
 In their push beyond the Drocourt- Queant line the British have advanced to a point just to the west of Buissy, two and half miles northeast of Queant,an occupied Pronvil1e, a mile end half southeast of Queant.
 More than 10000 prisoners were taken by the British yesterday. Ad- ditionaI prisoners were taken this morning.
 The British also hold Dougnies, ,Velu and Bertincourt and Rocquigny, rep resenting an advance to a maximum depth of four miles on 20 mile front effected this morning.
 In Flanders the British forces have captured the town of Wulverghem, two miles southeast of Kemmel. London, Sept. 3-Contrary to ex- pectations the enemy has not reacted heavily with view to the recapture of the Queant-Drocourt line, but has 1 left the British in undisturbed pos session of it.
 The British found Doignies and Velu unoccupied.
 The situation in the southern part of the battle field is said to be ex- tremely interesting, but nothing more can be said for the moment. London, Sept. 3-The capture of the town of Queant, the southern SUD- port of the famous German switch line before Cambrai and Douai, is announced in an official statement from Field Marshal Haig today. | In storming the Drocourt-Quean line the Canadians assisted the Eng fish troops and carried everything be- 1 fore them.
 Along this line the enemy was heavily defeated in his prepared de- i lenses and is retiring on virtually the whole battle front.
 The British forces are reported to have entered the towns of Pronville Doignies and Bertincourt. With the French Army in France Monday, Sept. 2-(By the Associated | Press)-The French 10th army re- stunned it's attacks on the plateau north of Soissons late today. Gen. Mangin's men pushed on to Leuilly, two miles from Vauxillon and five miles from Chemin des Danes. Huge fires ob- served toward Vauxaillon, northeast of Soissons, indicated the enemy was burning his supplies.
 Farther south Gen. Mangin's mer captured Terny Sorny and Fontaine St. Remy. The road from Crouy tc lPont Rogue in the direction of Chem in des Danes was reached and pro. gress continues, according to latest re- ports.
 With the French Army in France Monday, Sept. 2.-(By The Associated Press)-Localizatio in the activity ot the infantry in the last two dayst has given the appearance of relinquish- Ement of pressure on the flying eBr- man lines from the Somme to Sois' sons. The altered face of the battle Is due to changes in the conditions 0. the ground and tactics and though the fighting has been confined to com paratively short sectors north of Sois sons, north of Noyon and around Nesle engagements of the utmost i'm portance have been in progress il which the Allies have gained advant ages that explain the enormous sac rifices the Germans made to hold then off at those points.
 North of Soissons Gen. Mangin's q troops after three days of furious combat,in which positions were takeI and retaken several times, have push ed forward on the plateau that over looks the valley of the Ailette behind Chemin des Danes and from where the citadel of Loan, one of the stouteS' pillars in the German secondary line may plainly be seen.
 The French and Americans me around Juvigny the elite of the Ger man army, grenadiers of the Prussiar guard, picked storming battalions anG hardy mountain infantrymen. They defated them decisively taking ar , enormous death toll from their rank! and sending a goodly number of cap lives to the rear. The Associated Press correspondent saw a column O. these prisoners filing back over thu plateau to the west where whit wooden crosses over fresh grave. marked the scene of other recent de , feats. Some were young, but all wert sturdy and humiliation and depression showed in their faces rather than thu satisfaction exhibited by other pris oners over their final releace from tht inferno of war.
 , The Americans co-operated in tn attack on Juvigny with the type o tanks that the French have namet chars d'assaut," or shock cars. Tines, engines of war have been called lar mored infantry" They have all tn,
 suppleness of troops a foot and the advance readily into the enemy's DO sitions, dealing death dith gruesom : profusion from their quick f1rers ant cannon One of these armed car . manned by French lieutenant killed 200 Germans before Juvigny
 Very severe fighting has been goin
 on also north of Noyon, along tn
 Meve river and the Canal du Nor,
 and around Nesle. After forcing tn ! last fortified centers of resistanc . around Rove and Chaulnes, tn | French arrived at these points, con . fronting natural obstacles which tn Germans utilized to best advantage.
 The French succeeded in forcing