Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-05
STILL
 ADVANCE INTO-
 GERMAN LINES
Liberate French People Who Have Been in Hands of Hun Since September Four Years Ago
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WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, Sept. 4. (By the Associated Press, 4 D. m.)-British troops are on the canal Du NOrd practically along its whole length from Peronne to north of the Arras-Cambrai road. and in the south at two places. where the canal is only about half constructed, at Ruyaulcourt and Moislains, patrols are pushing forward.
 Along the canal to the north the enemy is holding the east. bank, ap- parently in great strength and has been using his machine guns freely all day. Patrols have been heavily fired upon. ,..
 The Germans have destroyed all the bridges and crossings over the canal Exhausted and in confusion, the en, emy is being subjected to heavy shell fire. It appears that the Germans intend to make a desperate stand here, in front of the famous Bourbon wood and Cambrai.
 The northern part of the linden burg line is being cleared. Allied troops are making progress astride 1t in a northeasterly direction.
 North of Peronne, the British have advanced to the east and, while the actions have not been fought with the violence which characterized those in the last four days, being mainly be- tween strong British advanced patrols and the German rear guards, addition al ground has been gained. The enemy artillery seems to have stiffened all along the line Villages which have been taken at the crest of the ad- vance had previously been evacuated by the enemy In at least one town some French inhabitants, including women, managed to hide themselves in the cellars, and after enduring sev- eral days of shell fire, first from the approaching British, then from the re- treating Germans, finally were res cued.
 When British patrols approached the town of Ecourt St. Quentin three men in civilian clothing emerged to meet them.
 On the strength of the story they told the British troops rushed into the town and there found fOrty-six per sons thirty of whom were women. hiding in cellars. They were helped out and came back across the battle field struggling over shell craters and occasionally menaced by a hail of in- direct machine gun fire from the Ger mans.
 It was a strange and pitiful proces- sion. Both men and women had been under the domination of the Germans since September. 1914 they had not seen a single allied soldier since then. for this was the first time that the ground in the locality of their village had been out of the possession of the Germans since the beginning of the war.
 There were unkempt old Frenchmen staring at the bare. shellshattered fields and roads alive with troops. and women carrying parcels or limpingly perambulators bearing their few belongings or children across fields where one of the most furious battles of the war had been fought
 They were almost delirious with joy as they threaded their way to the rear between long stretches of guns. horses and khaki-clad sol diers. On the road they passed men who had been wounded or killed. the of such sights and their grateful emotions at being delivered from the Germans sending tears | streaming down their thin cheeks. | More than one laughed and cried al ternately. as they again trod the free soil of France and tried to thank the l soldiers who had helped them from | their bondage.
 The three men who had first came out of the town to meet the British. | returned today. but the rest of the | party. becoming frightened by the en- Ccontinued on Page siz)