Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-03
Over a aI Front of Thirty Miles From Arras to Per
 rome Line Gives Way.
THOUSANDS OF BOCHE
 PRISONERS TAKEN
British Are Gradually Ap- preaching Hindenburg
 Line From the South.
(By The Associated Press.)

Oven a front of thirty miles from the region of Arras to Peronne( field marshal Haig's forces have literally smashed the German front.
 The southern portion of the famous Drocourt- Queant switch line which has been heralded as the impregnable bulwark of the German defense in the north, has given way under the vio- ltnct of the British onslaught over it's entire front from the Scarpe to Queant, a distance of virtually ten miles, and Monday night saw the Canadian and English troops who car4 ried out the maneuver hard after the defeated enemy some three miles to the eastward.
 , Thousands Are Captured.
 Thousands of prisoners nave been taken from the strongly resisting enemy who at last accounts was fighting violently as he gave ground toward the Canal Du Nord.
 By this servict setmingly is ended the menace of the Hindenburg to the south which the British are gradually approaching over it's entire front.
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 Already thoroughly outflanked on the north and with the French we'll upon it's southern bast, military ntc- tssity apparently will require that Germans relinquish the Hindenburg fortifications and regain thtir front from Flanders to Rheims in order to avert disaster at the hands of their now swiftly moving antagonists.
 Telling Progress Made.
 Telling progress wos made by the allies today in the great battle on the western front when Canadian and English troops pierced the Drocourt- Queant switch of the Hindenburg line, otherwise known as the Wotan line.
 It was upon this alternative line. established back of the main linden burg line to the east of Arras, that the Gtrmans command was dependinG to hold the allied forces off from Dousi and Cambrai and the vital rail- way supply lines in the triangle form ed by these two towns and Valencien4 nes.
 In their advance the British broke into the German positions back Of the switch line on a two mile front. They reached the outskirts of Cagnicourt. about two miles northeast Of Queantl according to battle front advices, fur ther north are reported to have pene- trated Dury, more than two miles east of Wotan line.
 Far Reaching Results.
 Far-reaching results may follow todays advance, which began with plunge early this morning by the Canadians and English south of the Scarpe river. If the allied gains can be held, the Hindenburg line would appear to be completely outflankeii on it's northern end. Development Of the success in the direction of Douai and Cambrai would threaten the entire ' German line in the west from the North Sea to Rheims and even be- yond.
 tained through the Franco American advance north of Soissons, which WAS continued last night, increasing the menace to the southern flank of tho Hindenburg positions. Progress waa made by General Petain's allied force1 in the wood east of Coucy Le ChateauA z and on the line further south; lt io # here that the allies are pressing III { upon the bastion of St. Gobain defeud. z ing Laon. the southern bulwark of the x Hindenburg defenses. ;Ss
 The Germans also are still on the backward track in Flanders. Tho Brjt- x lsh are keeping closely after tho ono~ my They have reached tho LYn o9 Y ,f Estaires and have eaptpred N1Sl Eglise near the edge of the lfed s 2 N ridges south q Ke4nlnel.