The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1918-09-04
HINDENBURG LINE CAM
NOT BE MAINTAINED NOW
DrOcOurt-Queant Switch Is Smashed
Over 1O-Mile Fr0nt-Canadians
end English Now Three Miles
East OF Last Defense.

miles from the region OIL ArFaS TO
Peronne, Field Marshal Hstg's forces
have literally smashed the German
front. The southern portion of the
famous Drocourt-Queant switch line,
which has been heralded as the i'm
pregnable bulwark of the German de-
tense in the north, has given way und-
er the violence of the British onslaught
over its entire from from the Scarpe
river to Queant, a distance of virtually
10 miles, and Monday night saw the
! Canadian and English troops, who cay
ried out the maneuver, hard after the
defeated enemy some three miles to
the eastward
Thousands of prisoners have been
taken from the strongly resisting en-
emy, who at last accounts was fights
j ing violently as he gave ground
towsrd the Canal Gu Nora.
By this victory seemingly is ended
tae menace o. the Hindenburg line to
! the south, which the British are grad
ually approaching over its entire
front. Already thoroughly outflanked
to the north and with the French
well upon it's southern base, military
necessity apparently will require that
the Germans relinquisil the linden
burg fortifidstions and realign their
front from Flanders to Rheims in Or
der to avert disaster at the hands of
their now swiftly moving antagonists.
F! Already the roads to Douai, Cam
invested by the British and French
armies, while north of scissors the
French and Americans are in positions
Of vantage from which to carry out
turning movements which will out
flank Laon and the Chemin Ges Danes
end Aisne lines. The situation OF the
enemy, viewed from the wsIr maps, is
the most perilous he has yet been in.
Australians Brilliant Feat.
The Austrs lians who captured Mont
St. Quentin with $500 prisoners and
thereby made the fall OF Perrone in
evitable, accomplished the feat with
in an hour and with loss to them
. Sslves Of only 25 men, according to
the Daily Mails corresp ponient at
British headquarters in France.
The correspondent says tll.t the
better part o. three German divisions
crumbled to pieces before one Aus
tralian unit The Germans appeared
: to have felt some sort of nameless
terror similar to lha. which some
times takes Possession Of troops fight
ing against Indians in their native
haunts.
The ca1:urr OF Tttnne, according
to~the corrnsr aGea. Should turn the
enemy's c.c',nt ,,,W ano hasten his
retreat. IL II w has IN this southern
quarter ony oaa COOS position to
hold before l. = rea"res the. Hin1a l.
burg line from ST. Quentin northward.
Whole Sky Seems Ablaze.
It was soon after o'clock in the
morning that the massed British can
non broke loose with a roar that was
heard for miles in a crash barrage
The whole sky seemed aDlaze as thou
sands of British shells poured into the
Germen wire and lines.
| When the barri ge raised the Cana
dians and English swarmed over the
top. Just behind them were numer
Gus tanks of all sizes. They had been
over only minute when the enemy
opened with counter-barrage which
is said to have been by far the strong
est he has put down since the Brit
ish offensive began.
The instant the British appeared
, the Germans in many cases jumped
out of the trenches and held their
hands high above their heads. In
some cases, however, the advancing
British met with hail of machine
gun bullets, but in spite of this, they
pushed on Quickly the first line was
overcome.
From all along the line came re-
ports that Germans i'll Gugouts were
absolutely panic-stffcken, and many of
them were found covering In holes
and screaming with fright.
By 1880 o'clock the British had
completely passed the German front
and support lines. 1t was then that
the motor machine guns dashed out
onto the good roads at the German
rear Tanks also managed to get
through and they are working Tar
in advance of the infantry.