Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-03
N RACES
IND CAMBRAI
German Divisions
N 10 Halt Advance
Of British
lunches BLOWN UP
6na Leave Wake of Ruin,
Ddrning Stores of
Supplies
By PHILIP GIBBS

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With the British Armies In France,
Oct. 3.
<2fhe battle of Cambria continues
Her Intense and desperate fighting
both sides. The Canadians on The
orth OF Tilloy, Blecourt and other
I(1aRes. on the outskirts of the city
that In the last two days they
tpe never had harder fighting than
any other battle SINCE they have
IL France and all the world
}tows how hard they have fought
|{nce the first days round Ypres.
South Of the city our English di-
|1sions had fighting just as desper-
-. and our efforts have been re-
Bted by many German divisions
brown in hurriedly after u ad-
Gnce on Sunday last. all of whom
MT with determined spirit. knowing
81 much is at stake IL they fail
When ! vert up the Bapaume- Cam
~ road yesterday, as IL strikes east
Bourbon wood through Fontaine
{Dtre Dame. / was so close to the city
round which this battle is raging that
could see very clearly its roofs and
Eofres. which were shining In the
Morning sunlight. After the news !
I'd Tuesday, when l wrote. my mes.
HoGe. / expected to see Cambria in
anles. but / could see no red fire
here and only clouds of white smoke
king from the south and northwest
1es. and l now understand these
~ probably from stores which the
1emy IL burning down by the candle
AcfOry IND by the canal docks. and
y far he has not set that town alight
q whole.
He deliberately destroyed the
Hurches OF the suburbs of Sally and
Inillencourt, leaving slow burning
Uses attached to high explosives wher.
retreated from those pla ,es. so
hat they went up in explosions on
Monday, and Tuesday in one suburb
y oficer went to sleep in n dugout
'pd was awakened next morning by
engineer. who told him he a been
eepfng or two bags of dynamite to
|hich a fuse had been burning but
1T BY good luck it vas not kept
NFning.
~-ecf ~ thera bevond Graincourt
r1~-rs3.~as th.ra me- err 1ittIe
<5j,1&rv a. ~ ai,ba,. s,de Eor1v =,
~~~rci,. nrhsn ,ha pnyaI Scotch
1<-fu~rs .ard Sbronsbiro iight ipfantry
~ seterLing Pur,,,Iv aaain after
4httul nghting among the ruins.
ma Eunncrs flung over large
111erB OF heavy shells. sc that the
~ ~hA~xshsd NV, ,usatad dotyn
49, ~ tha aararoe ~ ~ troons
S~rS tron p,,mu, nat ~
<- a,,,,,ne haot b,s baoyias
[.5~ .vant .ha,r
Encmy Abandons Batteries;
ma has lost too many guns of late
rfrk those that remain 10 him in
! eector and ON the ground across
rlch / went Yesterday there were
@teral abandoned batteries and
Z e,rns living about among those
role old tanks Of. ours that were
sabied by the Germany artillery
for serving his gun with open
<hts when they advanced over Files
Sieres last year. Since then and
the last few DAYS this ground has
1en strevn with every imaginable
{nd q wreckage which belongs &c
cs;.~v vsra ~ soil how dasnerateIy
.renv rasistad our nrooress here
<he heftle vesterdav morning or
southern side OF Cambria wa,
~ foufrht by infantry without
IN artillery support, as II was clost
ming ID the suburbs OF the city
IRE q hing street, called the Eau
nrg de Paris. strikes out Of Cambria
. the open fields. anc where every
11ne ! n Y Is a m~achlne-gun fort.
L me right; the rldge o whici
men opsnt up 70 ftunnlllE,, wa
qufet, tnougn All hrous TN
.lk untat-AIter 'ne new auvance -
ywm IL was oH hre VIII