The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-01
Allied Advance Moves Like an
OmnipOtent Machine. /
With Cambria Burning, Haig's
Men Push Forward.
ALLIES EXTENDING IRON RING
st. Quentin, Too, Is Practically
Useless to Huns.
Drive Wedge Between Subma.
rine Bases and Lille.

Paris, Oct. Like a vast
omnipotent machine, the allied
armies are rolling forward,
crushing key point after key
point, advices from the battle
fronts showed this afternoon.
In many places the Germans,
recovering somewhat from
their first bewilderment, are
hurting desperate counter at
tacks into the allied tide, which
are broken and swallowed up.
In other sectors, the Ger
mans, caught off their balance,
are withdrawing stubbornly
and putting up a bloody fight.
At no place are the allies adj
vancing without bitter fighting.
General Won Ludendorff is now
draining his scanty reserves
from depots situated all the
way from Switzerland to the
North sea, and throwing them
into the fighting in an attempt
to stem the allies.
The battle front with today's
attack between the Aisne and
the Vesle extends approximate
ly 250 miles, according to cal
culations by General Verreaux.
From every sector in the six
distinct battle areas news OF
successes is flowing in hourly.
tBy the Associated Press.)
French, British, American and Bel
gian troops continue their smashes
against the German defenses, further
increasing the peril to the German
armies from Verdun to the North sea.
The important bastions of Lille. Cam
brai and Laon, more and more are be-
/ coming of less use to the Germans.
Cambria was burning today, having
/ been set on fire by the Germans while
i Field Marshal Haig's forces were
pushing forward into it's suburbs on
! the north, west and southwest.
i Around st. Quentin the British were
! extending the iron ring about that inn
portant point. Between ST. Quentin
! and Cambria the British are fighting
I their way across the Scheldt canal at
several points. having taken Vendhuile
on the canal west of lie Catelet and
/ midway between Cambria and st.
Quentin. Northeast of ST. Quentin the
! British have taken the town of Lever
gies east of a point running north and
south thru st. Quentin.
I The wedge driven in between the
fortress of Lille and the German sub
marine bases on the Bcig;an coast 10
being widened rapidly.
! Encircling RouIers.
The Belgians are encircling RouIere
on the railway line from Lille to the
submarine bases of Ostend and Zee
| brugge.
Further south the British menacs
Menin. junction point on the same
railroad and along the Lys river west
of Menin for a distance of five miles.
The forces under King Albert OF
Belgium are on open ground and are
] overcoming heavy counter attacks By
the enemy 1t would seem that the
railroads forming and within the
triangle of Lille, Ghent and Bruges
would soon be lost to the Germans.
bringing about the evacuation OF
Ostend and Zeebrugge.
New Drive Progresses.
i General BerthoIet resumed Tuesday
morning his onslaught against the
German lines between the Vesle ana
the Aisne in the region west OF
ing toward the eastern end of the
! Chemin des Danes and the open coun-
try north of Rheims. by which the
pivot point of Lens can be outflanked.
from the Suippe 10 the MeuSe, tno
/ French and Americans maintain thefg
strong, steady pressure against the
German forces defending the impor-
tant communication lines running east
! to Metz from the Laon-St- Quentin re-
gion. West of the Argonne the French
are pressing up the valley of the Aisne
toward Challerange and Vouziers.
French Big Captures.
Since September rs, the French
have captured more than 1900 pris-
oners and in excess Of 500 guns on
this front. East of the Argonne the
Americans continue to maintain and
improve their positions in the face 81
strong German resistance.
Thru 1Iindenburg Zine.
I In The last ten days the western bat
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