Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-09-26
Most Desperate Battling Of
Weeks Taking Place in zion
OF St. Quentin and Cambria.
ENEEY Is DESPERATE
osrman and Austrian Crown Princes
Throw Troops Into Melee With
orslsrs 70 Do or Die, Rstssss o.
Be Killed.

Parit. Sept 23-The most stubborn
nght:ng. seen IN weeks Is taking place
In the regioni, Of Cambrai.. st. Quentin
and Scissors. where the armies OF
Generals Byng. 'Rawlinson, Debeney
and M,.ngin Hre batterinx against the
very gntes Of Germany.
& With q desperation bordering on
panic. Crown Prince Rubprecht, Gen.
eral Won Boehm and the German crown
price are throwing troops into the me.
Ice with orders to hold or die, re.
take or be killed.
Field Marshal vor Hihdenbuiz real.
ICES the menace to his far-flung for.
tress. behind which lies the German
frontier. and is thus attacking. The
Allies are meeting the attacking Prus.
slams in .nidfeid in some OF the Wild.
est, fiercest grapples Of the w;,r.
eoches Not Yet Whipped.
One big fact stands out In this
Nightingale B0ches are not yet whip.
ped. For weeks the general tone Of
war stories has been that the Germans
haven't any more fight in them, but II
you want to make any regular fight
ing man mad. he be American, British
or French. Just intimate that his Job
10 easy and the war is now over.
He knows Germany can be whipped
finally, but he readily admits that
much hard scrapp;ng is certain before
the knockout. He insists that the
pushy stories to the contrary are help.
Ing the Boche.
He points out that the Germans have
shortened their line 20 miles by their
retreat. rs Q result Of which only
ia German divisions are holding the
line now as compared with the 14O
needed before Marshal Foch's counter
offensive.
seventy-one Divisions Resting.
Then the Germans had only IS di.
visions in reserve and 33 resting or
renting. Now they have 13 in re.
serve and II resting or refitting, and
three weeks is considered ample time
TO refit. unless something happens to
prevent 1t. Won Hindenburg thus
1ortly will have "a divisions in re-
In the meantime the Allies are now
up against line Of the enemy's own
choosing, giving the latter big ad.
vantage. Unless the Germans are
thrown out Of these positions they
will be able to hold them with fewer
troops still, thus increasing the mum.
ber Of reserve divisions out Of the line
resting and training.
Fighting is Reeumed.
London, Sept. 22.-Fighting has
been resumed east Of Epehy, between
Cambria and St. Quentin. Field Mar.
shall Haig reported. Fresh German at.
tacks north Of Moeuvres (seven miles
directly west of Ca:nbraD were re.
pulsed. in the ne!Shbo-hood of Gauche
wood. further to the south, German in.
fantry succeeded in slightly pressing
1.-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
Of Ypres strong point was captured
/ French Capture eenay.
Paris. Sept. 23.-In their drive fol
the outfanking Of St Quentin on the
south, the French captured the town
of Benay and made progress north Of
that place says today's war Office an
nouncement.
| Nine Mile Advance.
London, Sept. 23.-The Serbian
troops east of Monastir have advanced
more than nine miles in one day ant
now are less than eight miles fron
the main highway connecting PriieI
with the vardar river.