New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-10-04
GERMANS SET
FIRE TO CAMBRIA
pOILlUS SMASH FIERCE RESIST
ANCE AND FIGHT WAY INTO
ST. QUENTIN.
YANKS WIN DETECTIVES
BRITISH AND BElGlANS DRIVE
WEDGE TOWARD U-eOA
BASE ON NORTH SEA.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
With the American Army on the
St. Quentin Front, Oct. 2. some nun
dreds of Americans In a certain lar
advanced position between cambria
and st. Quentin, which they reach'u
late Sunday, were holding OUT Val
iantly against superior enemy nuhi-
hers. according to latest reports
which were received Tuesday. Inc
Australians made heroic attempts 10
assist them, and so far as can pe
learned are still keeping up these ell
forts. the result OF which IS not
known. Furious fighting continues
here.
French. British. American ana BEL
Cian troops continue their sniashen
against the German defenses, lurthet
increasing the peril to the herman
armies from Nerdun to the North sea
The important bastions of Lille, Gam
hrai ST Quentin and Laon more ana
more are becoming of less use 10 the
Germans.
Cambria was burning Tuesday, nav
ing been set on fire by the Germans
while Field Marshal Haig's forces
were entering its suburbs on the north,
west and southwest. Around 81
Quentin the British were
their iron ring. Between ST. quentin
and Cambria the British are crossing
the Schcldt canal at several points
having taken V~ondhuile, on the canal
west of lie Catelct and midway be
tween Cambria and st. quentin
Northeast of St. Quentin the BRUSH
have taken Levergies, east OF a polhl
running north and south through st.
Quentin.
The wedge driven in between the
fortress of Lille and the German sub
marine bases on the Belgian coast IS
being widenedrapidly. The Belgiansare
encircling Roulers on the railway Inc
from Lille to the submarine bases at
Ostend and Z~eebrugge, Farther south
the British menace Menin, on the same
railroad, and are along the Lys west
of Menin for a distance OF five miles.
The forces under King Albert are on
open ground, and it would seem that
the railroads forming and within the
triangle of Lille, Client and Bruges
would soon be lost TO the Germans,
bringing abou the evacuation OF Us
tend and Zeebrugge.
General Berthelot esumed Tuesoav
morning his o~nslaughts against the
German lines between the Nesle ana
Aisne west of Rheims. The French
here are marching toward the eastern
end of the Chemin des Danes ana the
omen country north Of Rheims by
which Laon can be outflanked.
From the Suippe to the Meuse the
French and Americans maintain theli
strong. steady pressure against the
German forces defending the import
ant communication lines running cas-
10 Metz from the Laon-St. Quentin re
gion. West of the Argonne the Frenci
are pressing up the valley of the Assn
toward Challerange and Vouchers.
In the Macedonian theater, west o
Lake Ochrida, the Austrians are eVac
uating territory in Albania. probab',
indicating that now Bulgaria is out o
the war the Austro-H ungarians reallz
they are in a serious predicament, ia
from home and with no allies to al
them.
General Allenby in Palestine ha
surrounded Damascus and trehc
cavalry is reported to he working it
way up the Mediterranean sea coas
toward BeyrOut.