Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03
Whole of System Below Bel licourt Tunnel and Gal
 leries Taken.
FRENCH COMPLETE CONQUEST ST. THIERR
Foe Is Now Using Shells Loaded With "Sneezing Gas" on Yankees.

Wltn the French Army in France, Oct ? C p. m. By The Associated Press. .)-General Berthelot's forces in the course of the night and this morn- ing. completed their conquests of St. Thierry massif, northwest of Rheims, occupying Poullion and taking the fort of St. Thierry.
 The French now dominate the plain to the east and threaten the German positions all along the Aisne -Marne canal from Betheny to the north and including the fort of Brimont, where where posted the guns that accom- pllshed the greater part of the des- truction of Rheims. The French lines were pushed slightly northward to- wards Bethieny.
 The conquest of the important posi- tions around St. Thierry and the ad- vance of General Gouraud's men in the region of St. Marie-A-Py, in the Champagne, increases the gravity of the situation for the German forces holding the heights to the east of Rheims.
 Further slight advances by, both Gouraud and Berthelct in those re- gions will make of the Rheims sal tent another pocket from which the Germans will find an exit with diff culty. Fighting continued during the night in the suburbs of St. Quentin.
 The Germans were trying to repair the breach made there in the Hin denburg line by organizing a defense of the Crozat canal, where they have massed great number of machine guns to prevent the French troops from crossing.
 The Germans are expected to make a desperate defense in the secaor in order to facilitate their retirement to a secondary position behind the Hin- denburg line.
 In the Champagne, the enemy also is redoubling his efforts to hold off General Gouraud's forces on the line of Monthers- Orfeuil-Liry, the heights here are cut by steep cliffs and deep ravines and, studded with clumps of trees and thickets, furnished excell- ent positions for defense.
 These positions aree being fiercely defeneed the Germans retiring only step by step and multiplying their counter attacks at all points where the French troops advance.
 General Gouraud's men this morn ing burst through very deep line of wire defenses south of Orfeuil and Liry and took a formidable position.
 Important Massif Taken.
 British Headquarters in France, Oct. 2 (Reuters) The whole of the Hindenburg system below the Belli- court tunnel is now reported to be m British hands.
 Strong patrols are working eau tiously through the tunne land it's many lateral galleries.
 The Australians are exploiting their gains of yesterday. In the trse lan- guage of the only report thus far re- ceiveid they are "going on" so like wise the Canadian and English div isions between Le Catelet and the Sensee river.
 Sneezing Gas Used.
 With the American oFrces on the Verdun Front, Oct. ? (3:3O D. m.) (By The Associated Press.)- German artillery in the early hours today freely sprinkled the areas behind the American lines with shells containing sneezing gas and phosgene.
 Between the Mouse and the Moselle the Germans directed quite concen- trated artillery fire on the American positions. The nervousness of the ene- my along the line indicates that he expects an attack.
 American detachments entering Gesnes, northwest of Mcntfaucon found it free of the enemy.