Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-09-26
Most Desperate Battling Of
Weeks Taking Place in Region
of St. Quentin and Cambria.
ENEMY IS DESPERATE
German and Austrian Crown Princes
Throw Troops into Melee With
Orders to Do or Die, Retake or
Be Killed.

Paris, Sept. 23.-The most stubborn
fighting een in weeks is taking place
in the regions of Cambria, st. Quentin
and Scissors, where the armies of
Generals Byng, Rawlinson, Debeney
and Mangin are battering against the
very gates of Germany.
With a desperation bordering on
panic, Grown Prince Rupprecht, Gen
era1 Won Boehm and the German crown
price are throwing troops into the me-
lee with orders to hold or die, re-
take or be killed.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg real.
lies the menace to his far-lung for
tress, behind which lies the German
frontier, and is thus attacking. The
Allies are meeting the attacking Prus.
slams III midfield in some of the Wild
est, iercest grapples of the war.
Boches Not Vet Whipped.
One big fact stands out in this
fghting-the Boches are not yet whip
ped. Fol weeks the general tone of
war stories has been that the Germans
haven't any more fight in them, but il
you want to make any regular fight
Ing man mad, he be American, British
Or French, just intimate that his job
Is easy and the war is now over
He knows Germany can be whipped
finally, but he readily admits that
much hard scrapping is certain before
the knockout. He insists that the
mushy stories to the contrary are help
ing the Boche.
He points out that the Germans have
shortened their line 70 miles by their
retreat, as a result of which only
ia German divisions are holding the
line now as compared with the 40
needed before Marshal Foch's counter
offensive.
SeventyAone Divisions Resting.
Then the Germans had only IS d.
visions in reserve and 33 resting or
refitting. Now they have 10 in re-
serve and n resting or. refitting, and
three weeks is considered ample time
to refit, unless something happens to
prevent it. Won Hindenburg thus
shortly will have "a divisions in re-
serve ready for operations.
In the meantime the Allies are now
up against a line of the enemy's own
choosing, giving the latter a big adj
vantage. Unless the Germans are
thrown out of these positions they
will be able to hold them with fewer
troops still, thus increasing the num-
Der Of reserve divisions out of the line
resting and training.
Fighting Is Resumed.
london, Sept. 22.-Fighting has
been resumed east Of Epehy, between
Cambrai and st. Quentin, Field Mar.
shall Haig reported. Fresh German at.
lacks north of Moeuvres ,(seven miles
directly west of Cambrai) were re.
pulsed, in the neighborhood of Gauche
wood, further to the south, German in.
fantry succeeded in slightly pressing
the British back from one advanced
post.
Further steps forward have been.
taken by the British on the Flanders,
front. West of Messines to the south
a Ypres a strong point a captured.
French Capture Benay.
Paris, Sept. 23.-In their drive for
the outftanking of st. Quentin on the
south, the French captured the town
of Benay and made progress north If
that place, says today's war office an
n0unCement.
Nine Mile Advance.
London, Sept. 23.-The Serbian
troops east of Monastir have advanced
more than nine miles in one day and
now are less than eight miles from
the main highway connecting Prilep
with the Vardar river.