Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-10
HUNS IN WILD RETfEAT
STILL BURNING TOWNS
Great Areas Lighted by Blaze an6
: Shaken by Explosion Of
Munition Dumps.
BIZ Assortaten Press % Everz Evsnine


With tho British Army On the Cambrai-s
St Quentin Front, Oct 9-By last night5
the British md Americans had reached a
point where ID Vas certain that ths
German lines could be cracked
The Third and Fourth Armies again
attacked this morning south 70 the 'front.'
hello bv the French simultaneously q
Cana. ian and English troops launched a
powerful attack extending several miles
north from Cambria.
The Canadians swept on after anni-
Iilating the Germans, who tined to checiz
them Together with the English they
then hurried eastward, smntherrg .
screen of German machine g1Inners IS
they went
DIG B0CHE FROM tAABRAI CELLARS.
Canadian and British noops met ir the
center of Cambria (Which was entered from
both north and south and quickly nopped
I'D. Many Germans had escaped, bur
many hundreds Rho had been held ther-
10 launch Il cointer attack we're either
killed or captured Some Of the enemy
troops stil are il deep cellars two stories
underground and in the tunnels the Ger
mans dug during their occupation "a tnc
citv. These are beng routed OUT and sent
back % the cages
Although MANY hres we're started hv
the Germans. the town was found not rp
Be Is badly damaged as had oeen feared.
GERMANS IL WILD BoCr
south Of the city. Inc Third ana Fourth
ARMIES rapidly overcame enemy op-
position. The Germans started fleeing
soon after the attack began. The front
line for 20 mile, began moving rapidly
eastward. Then came reports from arr
planes that Wanlbalx had been taken.
Soon the capture Of Harcourt was re-
ported
From then On, tidings came N rapiCs
succession oi villages falling before ma
allied advance.
TOWN AND TOWN DELIVERED.
Selvigny. Caulery, Ligny, Monugnyj
and Maretz were quickly reached anT
passed and soon the allies were closing u
on Caudry and Bertry. simultaneously
from the north 70 was reported that
Escaudoeuvres, east OF Cambrai, had been.
taken and that Inchy was being ap-.
preached.
The Canbrai-Le Chateau road wSs
crossed. and then the railway betweem
St Quentin and Bertry VAS cut SeDOn-
court then was IN sight and Fontalno
/ Norre Dame. farther south had been
reached By the French, By that time II
was clear the enemy WAS badly smashed
and that the British and AulFricarls stood
on the threshold Of the wlde-open country.
CAVALIER guRouGH HINoI LINE.
itwas about that time thay the asgalr,
which had been waiting, poured through
the wide breach IN the n0W shattered
HiadaaburS s1steu and stToancd 0ut
into the country Beyond
tsst Mhipptt saukS ana uuCred ears
also pursued the Germans. lalllng-slaus
ans rounding pp large rumber of
prisoners
Cavalry forces loN Axe apparently wei
east ID tho OWLS reported captured lnC
Allies h4vin- hu- broken through, he
Germans north md south 'or many rulles
art endangered Tor their lines are icing
turned Retreats ia sven a broader sra's
than that now b progress. may tntr. ore
he expected,
BRIrlsH oN DRESS PARADE
OfRccrs directing the attacs wrrc dis
I tiEctly satisfied AS the news came hack tn
reports from sIrplaues 9Ui hv runacT>.
pnt inajl one carnc back that showed
better than anything else hosl completely
the cncmy had been defeated Thi, Mss
report from ar .lr patrol that British
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