Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-03
S|X-M|LE BREACH
TORN WIDE OPEN !.
BY HA|G'S FORCE
Cagnicourt, Behind Famous
Drocourt-Queant Switch,
Captured by Canadians.
THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS
TAKEN IN DAYS FIGHTING
Violent Battle RACES on Front
Between Searpe and
Somme Rivers.
TRANSLOY AND ALLAINES FALL,
! French, Resisting Fierce Counterat-
tacks, Plow Eastward in N
Region Of Nesle.
THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS
TAKEN IN DAYS FIGHTING
TRANsLoY AND ALLAINEs FALL
French, Resisting Fierce Counterat.
tacks. Plow Eastward in ~
Region Of Nesle.
Try Associated Pres. !

Over a front Of thirty miles, from
the region Of Arras to Peronne, Field
Marshal HaiE's forces have literally
smashed the German front. RfiNtS5s
The southern portion OF the famous
Drocourt-Qucant switch line, which han
been heraded as the impresnable bull
work of the German defense in the
north. has given way under the vio-
lence of the British onslaught over.,i It's
entire front from the Scarpe River to
Queant. distance of virtuallystten
miles. and Monday night saw therGa-
madam and English troops, who car
ried out the maneuTer, hard after the
defeated enemy some three miles to tho
eastward. ..'--tSt.
taken from the strongly resisting
enemy. who. at last accounts, was fight
ward the Canal du Nord.
MENACE Of HINDENBURG
LINE SEEMINGLY ENDED
BY this victory seemingly is ended,
the menace OF the Hindenburg lineAto
the south, which the British are grad
Already. thoroughly ouuIanked sons thA,
north and with the French we'll upon,
It's southern base, military neeessitS.ap- !,
parently VIII require that tho Ger--
mans relinquish the flindenburg foi.-s
tiiications and realiEn their front from
FLANDERS to Rheims, in order. to avert
swiftly moving antagonists.
Aiready the roads to Douai, Cambral
and, and st; Quentin are thoroughly-;,in-
mnies. while north of Scissors the
French and Americans are in positions
OF vantage from which to carry out
turning movements which will outnafR
l-aon and the Chemin -des- Danes and
Aisne lines. The situation Of the
the most perilous he has yet been in,
british AND AMERICANS PRESS
GERMANS IN FLANDERS
Added to the troubles OF the German
niEh command is the situation that is
Eion around Ypres, where the Germans
daily are being forced out of their po-
sItioms I by the British and American
progress is being made eastward II,
the blottinG out of the salient that has
long existed there. The Americans Who,
took Voormezeele Sunday now are Well
INTO the region east Of the town. hav-
ing overcome the strong resistance of
the Germans who endeavored to bar
iiaig's men in this region and Armen-
there's Will be within striking distance.
After Armentieres it is but step to
lard hshtinE has been in progress
between the British and Germans
around Peronne. where the Australians
ana have taken several thousand pris-
oners. Between Peronne and Bapaume
,he Germans also have imposed strong
opposition to tho British. but the YSt
Pierre Vast wood. lie Transloy ana
Nilaines and Haut-A -Allaines all have
peen successfully carried. ~.
FRENCH MAKE IMPORTANT
CROSSING OF CANAL.
On the southern end OF the front 10.
Soissons the French have made another
important crossing of the Canal du Nord.
TINS time east of Nesle. which places
,hem well on the road to Ham. the last
remaining important junction pointSfn
the Somme-OiSe sector, with lines lead
ing from il to St. Quentin and La Fere
North OF scissors equally important
progress las been made. Here. where
tho Americans are in line with the
French. gains have been made on tho
piatenu east of Crecy-auMont and Ju-
Tisny. and the villages of Leuilly and
TernN- -Sorny have been taken, notwfth.S
standing stubborn resistance 80,
These gains. if they are continued,
seemingly cannot but result shortly
in the enemy withdrawing northward
from the Nesle River positions ne holds
ana reconstitutinG his entire front to
Rheims. q