The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03


 Sept 2.--(By the Associated Press)- The British have pierced the Dro- court -Queant line. In a fierce Dalt,e, which has been raging since dawn and which will probably prove to be one of the most important of the war, Ca nadian and English troops, at last re ports at one point driven in about five kilometers. or a little more tnan three miles and were still going.
 The fightingwas as furious as any since the war began and increased in intensity as the British battled their way forward. meeting the ever grow ing resistance of the enemy. who nan put in every available man anu was rushing up reserves at tke rear.
 Thousands of prisoners have been captured; the roads to the British rear are literally damned with them,
 Theer has been fighting in Drur7 which was taken by the British and Drury which the Germans held in great strength was stormed.
 The British went on after killing enormous numbers of the enemy. The Germans died fighting here, as else where
 Cagnieourt wood and Cagnicourt have been captured, and Bois-uv- Bouche, to the southeast, is reported also to have been occupied
 There has been heavy fighting in Buissy, northeast of Queant, where large numbers of prisoners nave been captured and some progress has been made againt the northern end of the Queant-Drocourt line for some dis tance.
 All during the night there was SC yerely heavy fighting around the Brit- ish positions which were almost ammed up against the great German defense system. Piles of dead Ger mans was one of the results During one enemy attack a sergeant with a machine gun killed sixty Germans who tried to rush him
 It was soonafter five o'clock in the morning that the massed British can non blazed loose with a roar that was heard for miles in crash barrage. The whole sky seemed ablaze as thol" sands of British shells poured in the German wire and lines.
 When the barrage raised the Cana dians and English sWarmed over the top. Just behind were numerous tanks of all sizes, They mad been over only minute when the enemy opened with a counter barrage, which is said to have been by far the strongest he has put down since the British offens- i've began.
 The instant the British appeared the Germans in many cases jumped out of the trenches and held their hands high above their heads. In some cases however, the advancing British met with hail of machine gun bullets, but notwithstanding this they pushed on Quickly the first line was overcome
 From all along the line came reports that Germans in dueouts were abso- lutey panic stricken and many of them were found covering in holes and screaming with fright.
 By 7:30 o'clock the British had com
  support Illness It was then that mo- tor machine guns dashed out onto the food roads at the German rear. Tanks also managed to get through and they are working far in advance of the in fantry.
 Some of the fast motor machine guns are reported by the aeroplanes 10 have made their way along the Ca nal -du- Nord on the roads between Douai and Marquoin. while others are reported to be holding the bridge heads against large numbers of Ger man reserves, who are constantly coming in the rear.
 Along the ArrasC Cambrai road the British have made good progress and Villers-lez- Cagnicourt, which was pro tected by special barriers of wire ana a powerful trench system was the scene of desperate fighting.
 Both Villers s-lez-Cagnicourt and raunicourt are in British hands and