The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-27
Bapaume Surrounded and Shells Rain on
 German Stronghold
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 flank virtually all the German gains made in Picardy this year. Behind the advancing British line astride the Scarpe are the hills around Arras from which hundreds of guns pour a devastating fire on the hard pressed Germans. Several miles in the rear of the Hindenburg line easat of Arras is trench system known as the Queant-Drocourt switch line. How formidable this is is uncertain, but 1t Is on a table land with no hills behind it.
 Gen. Byng has forced his way closer toward Bapaume from the north and south. British patrols are reported to have gone into Bapaume and beyond it without coming upon any of the enemy. The usefulness of Bapaume as a base has been lost to the Germans as the British artillery has had it under easy range for sever al days Particularly bitter fighting marks the British progress around Bapaume.
 With the British Army in France, Aug. 27.-(By The Associated Press) The Hindenburg line has been pen etrated by British troops at a point east of Heninel.
 Troops of Field Marshal Haig to- day are advancing astride the river Scarpe and are pushing forward to the south of Bapaume. Elsewhere along the British front their progress also continues.
 There has been heavy fighting at Longueval and on the adjacent ground where the Germans launched a heavy counter attack with fresh forces brought up especially for the purpose from Sedan.
 In the face of this counter attack the British fell back to the edge of LonguevaI
 In the course of the night the New zealanders, according to reports,swep around Bapaume at the north and reached the railroad just north of the Bapaume -CambTai road.
 The Germans are offering stiff re- sistance in the neighborhood of Thil- Joy, to the south of Bapaume. Reports have been received from the advanced lines that British patrols have again entered the outskirts of Bapaume and that there has been street fighting between the British and the Germans on the edge of the town | The British have penetrated the Hindenburg line at one point to the east of Heninel, which is between Bapaume and the Scarpe river, and hard fighting is reported to be in pro- gress there. The British advanced lines now are reported to be east of Monchy le Preux. German rear guards are fighting to retain their hold on Pe1ves, on the southern bank of the Scarpe the British having reached the edge of the town. North of the Scarpe progress is made by the British on both sides of the road to Douai. As Haig's troops advanced south of the river the Ger mans soon found that the ground north of the stream was extremely dangerous. Here they are forced back, leaving their rear protected with a large number of machine guns and are employing the same tactics as they generally are using along the rest of the battle line.
 London, Aug. 27.-British forces are established in the northern out skirts of Bapaume, says today's war office statement.
 | British forces in the great battle in northern Picardy are making progress toward the village of Beugnatre, 2h miles northeast of Bapaume, says to- days war office statement. There is hard fighting around Croisilles, farther north.
 Since last Wednesday the British have taken 21, ,O00 prisoners. The British have pushed through the town of Montauban, three miles north of the Somme, and capturing the wood near that place, have reach ] ed Longuval.
 Australian troops have made sub stantial progrss toward Dompierre, south of the Somme, and east of Su- game, north of the river. 1 North of the Scarpe river scottish troops renewed their attack against the Germans last night and have ad- vanced toward Plouvain.