The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-19

London, Sept. 19-Nearly 900 prisoners had been taken by the Brit ish upto earlylast evening their new smash toward St Quentin, launched early yesterday on 16-mile front. Their advance continues, though op- posed by the most vigorous machine gun resistance the Germans have yet put up this year.
 The redoubled Siegfried line has been cut at several points, and at one place, beyond Vileret, the British are already beyond their March 21 posi- tions.
 The advance registered so far ranges between two and three miles.
 Late this afternoon word came from the somme front of a new French at tack on a great scale.
 Field Marshal Haig announces fin his night report that the attack was launched on 16-mile front, from Holnon (two and a half miles north west of St. Quentin) to Gouzeaucourt (sfx and a half miles northwest of Le Catelet)
 The outer defenses of the Hinden- burg line were captured, with Fres- noy-le Petit Berthaucourt and Pom tru. Australian troops captured La vergnier, Villeret and Hargicourt
 Some German tanks have been cantured by the British. An entire battery of Az Inch guns, with horses is among the booty. At some points an advance of more than 4,O0O yards was made.
 The villages of F'resnoy- Petit (three miles northwest of St. Quentin) Basse, Boulogn, Piezires, Villers- Guislain, Villeret and Ascension Farm have been taken. Gauche Wood is surrounded.
 Fighting ranges in Lempire (three and a half miles slightly southwest of Le Cateret), and in Berthaucourt' The French, joining the British ac- tion south of Holnon (the village cap- tured by the British yesterday as a Jumping place." two and half miles slightly northwest of St. Quen- tin), attacked and made good pro- eress. breaking the Siegfried line at one or more points. The French ob- 1ectives are limited
 General Pershing's American troops in Lorraine smashed a vigorous Ger man counter-attack southwest o1 Metz, where the American right rests on the Moselle. The Germans de- bouched from Champey and Vitton- vile across the Moselle bridge in l furious effort to retake Nandieres vii lage. one of the most hotly contested places since the Lorraine front wa: stabilized after the wtping out of tho |; St. Mihiel salient. Vandieres is firm ly held by the Americans. The Ger man assault was crushed by tn American barrage and the attacker turned before they had reached tn American lines.
 German planes are dropping mess ages addressed to German-America1 soldiers, urging them to desert an promising them they will find libert in Germany. The message contain bitter attacks on President Wilson.
 The French in their sustained at tacks north of the Aisne have mad another vital step toward forcing tn Germans off the Chemin- des-Dame! They have captured the height an ruins of Fort Malmaison.
 The Germans are poisoning the vel ir towns they are forced to abandon according to the newspaper La Franc du Nord, of Boulogne. The pape says French engineer from that eft and seven companions died frol poison after drinking water in a tow they had just entered.
 The military commander at Slut gart capital of Wuerttemberg, has O dered all female domestics to enro in the compulsory military service b fore Sept. 30, according to Germa dispatches. Only those found med cally unfit will be exempted.
 The Serbians have advanced te miles on a twenty-mile front in the drive in Macedonia. according to late \, news from that front. Fifty gul have been captured.
 Dispatches state the Bulgars are n fighting with anything near their ol time vigor. Most of their reinforc ments were isolated in the Prilep r zion when they were most urgent needed. The serbians are now pus ing downhill and the operation is scribed as "going we'll"
 The Allied offensive is rapidly b coming general, extending to t north of Monastir, thus menacing t important Bulgarian rail center Prilep. The number of prisone taken by the Serbs, French al Greeks reached the 1000 mark.
 Eleven German airplanes were d stroyed and five others driven out control by the British yesterday. T British lost ten machines. The Ge man aviators were less active yeste day owing to their heavy losses on t previous day when they lost 66 m chimes. Twenty-nine and half to of bombs were dropped by Britt raiding planes in 24 hours.
 Washington, Sept. 19-The oper tions of the Allied forces in Rus are demanding more of the attenti of the War Department at this til than those against St. Quentin a Metz.
 As explained yesterday by staff O cers. the plan of campaign in Rus shows a convergence to a point son where near Samara in the province
 orenberg. According to the lat positions of troops on the official m the Allies are adveucing from Arc angel directly southward toward
 mara, and the Japanese, America British, French and Czecho-Slovi are going ahead westward for c,
 centration at the same point.
 The result of this establishment
 an army at samara, as stated by c
 cials, will be this:
 There will be rallying point
 ~ tba nro1reasive clements of Rms