The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-19
HAIG is HURLINC
HEAVY ATTACKS
AGAINST ENEMY
Is Within Famous Defenses on
Six-Mile Front.
Repulses Very Heavy Counter
Attacks by Huns.
HAS TAKEN 5000 PRISONERS
That Many Counted at Mid
night Last Night.
Forty Cannon Also Had Been
Captured by Haig.
FRENCH ALSO MAKE PROGRESS
Are Striking at st. Quentin
From the Southwest.
Are on Outskirts of DallOn, Two
Miles West of st. Quentin.
FRENCH ALSO MAKE PROGRESS
Are Striking at st. Quentin
From the Southwest.
Are on Outskirts of DallOn, Two
Miles West of st. Quentin.


With the British forces in France,
Sept. 19.--Field Marshal Haig's forces
up to midnight last night had captured
a total of more than 5000 Germans as
the result of their drive of yesterday
on the Cambria front.
Several thousand yards of the Hin
denburg outpost line was in British
hands this morning in the Villeret sec
tor. southwest of LIE Catelet
Forty guns were captured by the
British yesterday. In the 5000 pris-
oners taken. twenty-three German
regiments in eleven divisions were rep
resented.
French Push Closer.
Paris. Sept. 19.-French troops last
night continued their progress in the
region of ST. Quentin and penetrated
the Ger nan positions at Contescourt,
three miles southwest of ST. Quentin.
In Desperate Fighting.
tBy the Associated PressJ
British troops in desperate fighting
are plunging further into the linden
burg line north of st. Quentin, while
west of Cambrai they have withstood
vicious counter attacks. The enemy is
making every effort to retain his posi-
tions on the thirty mile front and to
check the new allied move which
threatens both st. Quentin and Cam
brai.
How serious was the menace to the
security of the Hindenburg line by
the British thrust north of st. Quen-
tin is shown by the strong counter at
tacks the Germans have thrown
against the British lines from
Gouzeaucourt to the Arras-C -Cambrai
road. thus extending the battle line
nearly twelve miles to the northward.
On the front attacked Wednesday. the
British are pushing ahead against Bit
ter resistance toward the st. Quentin
Cambria high road, railway and canal
three important enemy defense
lines.
Astridc Hindenburg Line.
From Lempire to Pontruet, which
the British now hold, the Germans
have been hurled from the forward
lines of the Hindenburg position The
British at Lempire are four mics from
LIE Catelet, an important town, while
on a front of nearly six miles they are
within one mile of the high road and
the canal. On a short front west of
st. Quentin the French are working
steadily toward the town, and are on
the outskirts of Dallon, two miles from
st. Quentin. German Counter attacks
at Trescault and Moeuvres, southwest
and west of Cambria, were preceded
by an intense artillery bombardment
which severed the British communi-
cation lines. At both points the Ger
losses. The enemy entered the Brit
ish trenches at some points but was
Immediately overwhelmed.
The Bulgarian retreat from the
Serbo-Greek border is reported to be
IN the nature of a flight and the
enemy is burning stores and villages in
his path. The allies have captured
additional prisoners and war mater
1al which have not been counted, so
East has been their advance. A score
or more of Serbian villages have been
reconquered and the Bulga rians have
been driven beyond Rasimbey, on the
Cerna river. fifteen miles southwest of
Prilep, the immediate objective.
1t is not unlikely the Bulgarians will
continue their retirement at least to
the improved road running east and
west thru Prilep. Already their loss
OF the important Sokol ridge endan-
gers the line west toward Monastir
and east of the Vardar. Should the
allies succeed in pressing the Bulgar-
1ans back to north of Prilep a com
plete readjustment of the Teuton
lines in Macedonia and Albania from
the Adriatic to Saloniki virtually
would be inevitable.
Paris. Sept. 19.-Along the Vesle
where American and French troons
are stationed, German attack north
east of Courlandon was broken UP
by the French artillery fire.
tBy the Associated Press)
In an attack which is described as
local in character. the British and
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