Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-09-30
German Remittance O.
American Front Near
st. Quentin Stif.
HEAVY LOSSES
ON BOTH SIDES
German Casualties Far in Excess u
Those OF psrshino's ForcsA orsund
Being Strewn With Hun 0sad-
American Aviators Declared te'ttaso
Equaled Any Air Force In NsssNo
Work on Battle Fronts.
tpy the Associated Pre...i

with the American Forces North -
ST Quentin. Sept. es.-AmericAn fc-rns
attacked brilliantly with tho British
this morning. At .nightfaii they veFs
reported to have gained thetr objec-
tives only by sheer might and afser
killing great numbers OF the enemy
who tried to halt them.
Elsewhere on the front from -
Quentin to the sea important gains
were made today and tonight and tt
seems the German resistance for tho
moment had siackened. The sitnatton
contains SO many possibilities tha8
anything may happen at any moment.
The resistance encountered by the
American troops was as strong -
anything offered by the Germans TOT
many weeks. The Americans - yleN
as the British were held up At places
from time to time by mAchinS guns.
At places this was overcome BY hAnk
ing movements and at other places
quickly organised stormine partisn
rushed the enemy and siicnced hfnh.
Unit Reaches couehy.
One American unit In reUogeo4 -
have passed tho IS capolst AAd -
ha~c roechcd .Gnqchy. ftAF y
/ vhlrh .ssut,fys0' Nsne1y
thru I1e Caberet SooA. NAue1 Il 4
forenoon thifty-Slx 0ersuaa - oeeNs
and 1000 Of other RANKS hAAs n1ne444
the American collecting cages. but this
number included only those capeufS
during the early stages Of the attack.
! 1t was 8 o'clock this morning when
the British on their left and right
fianks showed or from the Hinden-
burg outpost line about 1000 yArua
west OF the st. Quentin line.
After n short crash" barrage the
infantry. preceded by large number
OF tanks started advancing thru tho
haze
Casualties Among Americans.
After hard fighting the troops
reached the canal and scrambled
across as the barrage swept on ahead
of them The Germans appeared 70
have had orders to hold until the last
That is what most Of them did md OF
course during the lighting. Of such a
desperate nature the Americans suf-
fei ed some casualties.
I AS the Australians passed thru. both
they and the Americans stopped Tor =
moment and cheered. At other places
where the fighting continued furiously
the Americans, working machine guns
and rifles, cheered as they worked.
The Americans co-operatcd closely
with the Australians.
The ground over which the Ameri-
cans passed was Uttered with German
dead and the same was true Of other
section or the front.
Cambrai Doomed.
II IL reported that the British have
reached Battouzelle. having taken La
teau wood and Les <Rues Vertes. and
are in the outskirts OF Cambria. where
there IA. heen f,xht!ng Of the heaviest
character.
Canadian troops are fighting here
and It In possible that by this time they
are in the town itself. Cnmbrai must
soon fall and It is doubtful IL many
Germans are there now. for they must
realize that they can not hold on.
Hard fighting seems to hnvc taken
place on the cambrai- Bapaume road.
In this district the village of Bieburt
has been captured by the Canadians
In the north the Bfitish ARE working
thru PloeEsteert II Is reported they
have reached Ives. II IL ALSO said that
they are In Oetraverne ana that they
! have entered Waterdamehoon,