Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-10
BRITISH TROOP
SWEEP FOE BACK
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ering a screen of German machine
gunners as they went.
Canadian and British troops met
in the center of Cambria, which was
entered from both north and south
and quickly mopped up. Many Ger
mans had escaped, but many hum
dreds who had been held there to
launch a counterattack were either
killed or captured. Some of the en-
emy troops are in deep cellars two
stories underground and in the tun-
nels the Germans dug during theh
occupation of the city. These are
being routed out and sent back to
the cages.
Although MANY fires were started
by the Germans. the town was found
not to be as badly damaged as had
been feared.
Villages Fall to Allies
South of the city the Third and
Fourth armies rapidly overcame en-
emy opposition. The Germans start
ed fleeing soon after the attack
began. The front line for twenty
miles began moving rapidly east
ward. Then came reports from air.
planes that WambaiX had been
taken. Soon the capture of Har-
court was reported. From that on
tidings came in rapid succession of
villages falling before the Allied ad-
vance
Selvigny. Caullery. Ligny, Mon
tigny and Maretz were quickly
reached and passed. and soon the
Allies were closing in on Caudry and
Bertry. simultaneously, from the
north it was reported that Escau-
doeuvres. east of Cambrai. had been
taken and that Inchy was being ap-
preached.
The Cambrai-Le Cateau road was
crossed and then the railway be-
tween st. Quentin and Bertry was
cut. Seboncourt then was in sight
and Fontaine Notre Dame, farther
south, had been reached by the
French. BY that time 1t was clear
the enemy was badly smashed and
that the British and Americans stood
on the threshold of the wide-open
country.
1t was at that time that the cav
airy. which had been waiting, poured
through the wide breach in the now
shattered Hindenburg system out
into the country beyond. Fast
"whlppet" tanks and armored cars
also pursued the Germans. killing
many and rounding up large num-
ber of prisoners.
Cavalry forces now are apparently
we'll east of the towns reported cap
tured. The Allies having thus
broken through, the Germans north
and south for many miles are en-
dangered, for their lines are oelng
turned. Retreats on even q broader
scale than that now in progress may
therefore, be looked for.
Officers directing the attack were
distinctly satisfied as the news came
back in reports from airplanes ana
by runners, but finally one came
back that showed better than any
thing else how completely the enemy
had been defeated. This was re-
port from an air patrol that British
infantry had been seen marching
as if on parade in column OF tours
into and through the town of Bertry'
The men were swinging along en-
tirely unmolested by the enemy.
Another patrol brought word OF
the Germans fleeing in the greatest
disorder as far east as lie Cateau.
Eenmy troops and transports, it was
said, were streaming along the roads
and over the fields trying to make
their escape.
British cannon had been on the
move eastward all day. In many
cases batteries would gallop over the
rolling plains of Artois They would
stop, wheel about and fire for a
while, then dash on and repeat the
performance.
British Steadily Advance
British troops are steadily advanc-
ing eastward astride the road from
Cambrai to LIE Cateau. The Escaut
Canal, north of Cambria, has been
passed virtually along its entire
length, and left far behind. In the
fighting south of Cambrai the Brit
ish have cleared the enemy from the
last line of the Hindenburg system
which in this locality was extraor-
dinarily strong.
Many French civilians have been
rescued from recaptured towns. Five
hundred were brought back to free
dom from one town alone.
1t was soon after the Germans
| broke and ran that fires began to
break out in the whole district be-
hind them and the ground rocked
with terrific explosions as stores OF
ammunition were destroyed. Every
thing combustible in the area around
Caudry. Inchy, lie Cateau, st. Benin
st. Souplet, VauX-Andigny and Bo-
hahn was fired. and since then towns
and farms farther east have started
burning.
The enemy apparently has spread
his carnival of destruction both
north and south. Airmen have re-
ported explosions are occurring all
over the place one after another"
Latest reports sac the advance
continues rapidly.