The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-02
THREE
CITIES
AFIRE!
HUNS IN RETREAT
BURN ST. QUENTIN
MEN|N, R0uLERS
Cambrai Also Still Blazing
From Tuesdays Action.
City Is Heavily Mined and AL.
lies Do Not Enter.
MOVE GUNS FROM COAST
Germans Retreat From North
Sea With Artillery.
Lille Is Being Evacuated by
Civilian Population.
Cambrai Also Still Blazing
From Tuesdays Action.
City Is Heavily Mined and Ale
lies Do Not Enter.
MOVE GUNS FROM COAST
Germans Retreat From North
Sea With Artillery.
Lille Is Being Evacuated by
Civilian Population.
tRy tie Associated Press,

(Ry tie Associated Press.)
The German armies on the west
front face the greatest crisis since the
beginning of the war. Simultaneous
allied pressure on four offensive
fronts has created a situation where .
great retirement is imminent. Unof-
ficial dispatches reported that pre-
paredness for falling back on the two
wings of the battle-in Flanders and
along the Argonne-is already un-
der way
Fires in Menin and RouIers.
Paris. Oct. 2.-The towns of Menin
and Roulers. railway functions in
Flanders. have been set on fire by the
Germans in face Of the advancing
Belgian, British and French troops.
French guns now control the railway
line running from Ostend thru Thour-
out and Roulers to Courtrai.
British monitors are cooperating
actively in bombarding the German
lines on and near the coast.
Cambria Is Mined.
Paris, Oct. 2.-Cambrai has been
mined but the British forces have
fought around the town and thus have
foiled the plans of the enemy The
Germans decided on September / to
burn Cambria and forced the civilian
population to leave.
st. Quentin Is Burning.
Paris. Oct 2.-st. Quentin is burn
ing at several points. according to Pre-
mier Clemenceau, who informed Mar
eel Hutin of the Echo de Paris today
that French aviators have great diff
Guilty In flying over the city because
Of the smoke rising from it.
Fall Back HurriedIy.
Paris. Oct. 2.-The armies of Cen
erals Gouraud and Berthelot on the
fronts east and west of Rheims con-
tinued to advance today against the
Germans who appeared to be falling
back more hurriedly than at any time
Since September 26.
st. Thierry to French.
Paris. Oct. 2.-Heavy fighting took
place i'll st. Quentin last night. Re-
sisting stubbornly the Germans were
driven back to the east bank of the
canal. according to the French war
north of Rheims the French have
made further important gains. The
entire massif of st. Thierry now is in
French hands.
Advance Between Vesle- -Aisne.
(By the Associated Press)
Paris. Oct. I'd p. m).-General
Bertheiot's army today is making good
- ID SSS CSt"CCh Tie FcSie liver ana
the Aisne canal. The French troops
| have captured five or six viIlages ana
their advance at some places has
reached a depth of from five to six
kilometers
Move Hun Guns From Coast.
Paris. Oot 2.-Ths Germans are
moving their heavy artillery away
from the Belgian coast, according to
reports here today.
The ReIpiau army coo-o-cxs--
with the British army of General
Plumer and the French army of Gem
eFal Degoutte, successfully renewed
today their heavy attacks on the
Flanders front
Sequehart Is Captured.
| Sequehart, four and a half miles
southeast of Bellicourt, has been cap
/ tured. as has the hamlet of Preselles,
! just to the north.
| Occupy Two Towns.
| South of Cambria, British ana
Scottish troops. together with New
Zealanders. have occupied Crevecoeur
and Rumilly.
Lille Being Evacuated.
Paris, Oct 2-The city OF Lille Il
{! being evacuated by its civilian popula.
! ton, according to advices received toe
day.
| France. and one Of the German strong
holds, is seriously menaced by the British
advance at Cambria and the Belgian Gaine
| fContinued on Page TWo.)