The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04
TEUTONS IN FULL
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Canal du Nord. says Field Marshal
IIaig's official statement today.
North Of the Arras-Cambrai road
they have occupied the town of Ecourt
st Quentin.
North of Peronne the advance has
carried the British thru the Vaux
woods, above Moislans. Slight ad-
vances have been scored at other
points.
Close to Neuve ChapeTle.
Continuing their advance in Elan
ders, the British are approaching
Neuve Chapelle and Laventie. In the
same region they have gained posses
sion of Sailly-Sur-Lallfo and Nieppe.
Seven Miles From Camkrai.
London, Sept. "A British armored
car is reported to have entered Mar
quoin, according to dispatch from the
British front today.
Marquoin is on the main highway
running from Arras to Cambria, about
seven miles from the latter city.
Vital Cities Threatened.
Paris, Sept. 4.-Cambrai, Douai and
Lens today are directly menaced by
the advancing British. AS this is
cab1ed, the Canadians, English and
Scotch are within nine miles of Cam
brai and Douai, while the Drocourt-
Queant switch line and Hindenburg's
line has been smashed and left far
behind,
Between Haig's- advance guard and
the important cities of Cambria and
Douai, little in the way of fortifica-
tons remain and if Won Below checks
the allies before they reach the gates
of the two towns, he must sacrifice a
considerable number OF his fast
dwindling reserves
Only Part of Lens Taken.
Lens is being more and more pinch
"a.
army and may give way at any time.
Every yard that the British advance
astride the Scarpe river now adds per-
il to this bastion of German resistance.
Unofficial dispatches yesterday re-
ported Lens captured, but Haig's Of
fetal only mentioned slight advance
of British outposts in the city's west
ern outskirts.)
Apparently Hindenburg and Luden-
dorff have been caught naVEing again.
They little dreamed that the allies
would tackle the strongest defenses
on the western front without long and
hard preparation, but just southwark
of the scene of this latest victory. Cen
eraI Byng last fall sent an army OF
tanks crashing their way thru SINH
lar barrier of earthworkS, tunnels and
barbed wire the size of a mans little
finger. He thus had the answer to
this problem at his finger tips; towit.
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same medicine, driving a wedge clear
thru seven rows of defenses. desDite
the best efforts of eleven German divi-
sions to halt them./
Imdendorff Figured Wrong.
A further advance in this region
must vitality affect whatever plans
Hindenburg and Ludendorff may have
had in mind. Seemingly the Germans
believed the allies would pause when
they came up to the Hindenburg line,
and as southwark of Queant the line
has not yet been reached, the enemy
higher command apparently figured
they had some time vet. Foch. the
official timer of the allied operations,
however, figured the enemy would
reason that way-and hit, Haig re-
spending like thorobred to the call
for action.
Enemy reinforcements are pouring
in from all directions in order to try
to save Cambria and Doual. IN
doubtedIy they will put up a bitter
fight for these places. AS for Lens, 1
am permitted to say that not only
Lens itself, but the coal basin. which
is of the utmost value. are probably
already west of the-Brttish advance.
French Maintain Pressure.
The French are keeping up their
Nord, while the fighting continues
orth- ard of Scissors
General Mangin is localizing his
blows for the moment, but those in
the direction of Anizy are increasing
the crown. princes uneasiness along
the Vesle.
The enemy is making the most des-
rerate effort to hold up the French
hereabouts.s hurting the Prussian
guards into the fray time and time
again. They know T. yielding here
will compromise the entire line from
Scissors to Peronne. Tho General Pc
tain is not making a rapid advance
at spresen: he is OBTAINING large
n 3 Der of Germans who might other
wise be, in the fighting further north
in the region Of the Scarpe.