Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-09-02
Core Of Entire Battle
Front Situated on
Northern Line.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
LINE PENETRATED
OF Great importance IL Posi-.
tion Can BE He!d-Heavy Fighting
Expscted-Bstween 5000 and 1000
Prisoners Captured by Canadians in
Advance Against Peronne-Nsw At
tack South Of searps Progressing. !.
[By the Associated Press. ]

tBy the ASS0ClateQ PreSS.j
Driving forward on 4 five-miIe
front, Canadian and other British
troops today penetrated the highly
important 0rocourt- -Qusant switch
OF the Hindenbura line, on front
OF two miles.
Tho FIVE -mils frontal attack was
astride the Arras-cambrai road,
and It carried the Canadians to the
western edge Of Cagnieourt and
into Dury.
II the British can hold these
gains, they should prove Of i'm.
n.snss value, military observers be.
iievs, and they might force . con-
siderable withdrawal by the Ger
mans in this area.
Large numbers Of prisoners had
bssn taken up to noon and the
fighting was continuing. with in.
ersasino intensity, causing the en-
envy hsavy Casualties.
70 combat this new advance the
Gsrmans have seven divisions
ssmasssd On s-fve-mils front in this
{ Arsa.
Msanwhils lhs British adyanes.
ssong the cambrai-Bapaunleeoad
II continuing. On this Rod the
er;ss:sss. 80 nearing psgnN. xii
: la06 nsarly four milss aorthS1ot Of
@oapaume, with l"umoFs current that
IL already has be. ksxen.
- Transloy, the important point
on, the line between 6apaume and
Psronns, whsre the Germans have
been holding stubbornly, IS on the.
point Of capture by the British, az
Il is outfanksd on both sides.
Norsuii, northeast Of Bapaume, was
reported captured early today.
Nearly 1000 prisoners were taken
BY the Australians yesterday in the
vicinity Of Peronne, and since July
Is, when tho German offensive.
started, che allied forces on the
western front have taken a total Of
123.3o2 prisoners, Paris announces.
The gigantic offensive Of the al.
lied armies continues, with no in.
dication of weakening at any point
alono the battle line extending
from Ypres TO Scissors. At several
points the German defensss are
seriously menaced, especially near
Lille and in the vicinity of ST.
Quentin, on the British front, while
the Franco American forces to the
south continue TO advance in The
face Of bitter resistance.
Few defsnsss remain to the Ger.
mans between Peronne, which v~as
captured yesterday by the Austral.
ians, and the strong holds along the
famous Hindsnburs line around ST.
Quentin.
The Australians now hold Flam.
incourt and 81. Denis in addition to
Peronne and arc reported to be
making prosress east and north.
east Of Mont st. Quentin.
To the left of the Australians
English troops are advancing to
the southeast Of Comblss. In these
operations the Germ ans have lost
more than 1900 men and many
r.ns. Several hundred prison ers
also were taken in the different
J. or rations that resulted in the cap.
turc Of eulleeourt, Hendecourt, and
Lc Transloy.
O. the tLys front, where Ameri-
cans for tho first tirns have taI<on .
place in the battle line, the allied
troops have advaneed 10 Steen-
werek and are engaging the enemy
r.-r guards IN the vicinity Of Msuve
Eraiise. In their first operation in
Belgium the Americans captured