The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-09
British Take 5000 Prison CTS and Large Quantity
 of Guns. GERMAN RESISTANCE
 FAST sTIFFENING American Troops Get $500 and French 600
 Prisoners.
'(By Associated Press)

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 Forced from Gambrai, one of the strong pillars of the Hin- denburg systems, the Germans today are being driven back toward the French frontier un- der the heavy onslaughts of the Third and Fourth British arm ies, aided by American troops.
 In capturing Cambrai and breaking through the German defenses to. the south the Brit ish and Americans took more than 5000 prisoners and a large quantity of guns. Near Pre- mont the Americans captured an entire German artillery posi- ton of three batteries.
 Apparently the Germans now have lost the Hindenburg line on the front rom cambrai to St. Quentin. Field Marshal Haig resumed his attack again this morning and reports rapid progress on front of more than 30 miles from northeast of Cambrai to east of St. Quentin.
 As the German defense system in the center falls to the British and Americans the French and Americans on the southern sector from Rheims to east of the Mouse are smashing northward threatening the important functions on the river eastward from the broken St. Quentin Cambrai line.
 East of the Hindenburg line in the St. Quentin-Cambrai area the Ger mans are reported to have no pre- pared defenses until line in1medt- ! ately east of the frontier is reported. East of this line which would run through Valenciennes the Germans have the line of the Mouse
 Before the advancing Anglo-Ameri- can line is the railway functions of La Cateau Bohain, Guise and Caudry. If the north and south railways are cut, German communication between the Laon massif and the Lille salient will be lost
 Field Marshal Haig has driven into the German lines a gigantic salient based on Cambrai. This salient Is a great menace to the Lille and Daon . positions. The French and Americans on the east and the British and Ameri- cans on the north rapidly are out f1anking the Laon massif
 German resistance is stiffening along the front east of Rheims but not sufficient to report movement of Gen. erals Geaud and Dabennv
 The advance of the troops west of the Mouse is rapid. The American troops took $500 prisoners and a number of guns Along the Arnes the French yesterday took 500 prisoners.
 To complete the days work, Franco American forces moved up on the l right flank of the Mouse, won back places famous in the Verdun struggle | and got in line with the Americans on the left bank, who are thus reliev- ed of the galling flanking fire which 1 had prevented them moving forward.
 The German position has been rem 1 dered considerably worse as a result of yesterdays fighting, in the opin- ion of the military commentator Major de Civrieux, in the Matin, pointS | out that the strategic conditions alone 1 do not suffice to indicate the import ance of the battle, which aims morS than ever at the destruction of the . enemy in either direct combat or by maneuver. The German losses have : been enormous and not only in pris- ; oners. In single section of the Brit, ish front two fresh German divisions thrown into the furnace melted away i in a few moments. y
 General Ludendorff delayed his i general retreat so long that. in the view of this critic. he is in danger of : leading back merely the remnants of | his army to the famous Glacis which protects Germany Major de Civrieslx asks:
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