The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-19
GERMANS ORDERED TO
 HOLD CITY AT ANY COST
On the Eastern Front the Serbs and French Continue to Make Advances and the Battle Zone Has Widene to Sixteen Miles and May Develop Into Major Operation.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press)
 British and French veterans have made another vicious and successful smash at the Hindenburg line.
 Sweeping forward on a front of twenty-two miles, they went ahead from -3 to 3 miles taking many prisoners The most important aspect of the advance is that it makes more certain the capture of St Quentin, which the Germans have been ordered to hold at all costs. This important city is virtually surrounded on three sides and it's fall seem only matter of days.
 Field Marshal 1aig's third anl fourth armies charged over the trench system occupied by the British be- fore they were pushed back by the Teutonic flood last March They cap- tured, in wide sectors, the outer de fences Of the Hindenburg line.
 The British assault was over d front of sixteen miles, from Holnon. west of St. Quentin to Gouzeaucourt north of Epihy. In their advance, which reached a depth of more than three miles at some points, they took more than 6,0O0 prisoners
 Not only did the blow bring nearer the capture of St. Quentin. which the Germans are struggling desperately to hold but it went far toward wiping out the only bulge in the British line which resembles a salient Epihy. at the bend has been taken, and the same fate has befallen Gouzeaucourt, which stood at the end of the wings.
 The importance the Germans at- tached to the country wrested from launched determined counter attacks as soon as they could be organized from Hargicourt to the Omignon rivulet
 The success of their effort remains somewhat obscure but il is not be- lieyed they can recover the ground they have lost.
 While the French advance was less spectacular than that of the British. 'Sith whom they co-operated, they were equally successful in gaining their objectiyes. They moved forward on a front of six miles to an average depth of l 1-3 miles, adding several hundred prisoners to the bag. They now hold the southern outskirts of Contescourt, less than three miles from the suburbs of St. Quentin This city where the troops of von Goben scored 8 great victory in 1871 ! is one of the buttresses of the Douai- Cambrai, St Quentn-I. .aFere- LaOE line, beyond which it has been an nounced the Germans would not fall 1 back
 | With the French in the outskirts of I.eFere, with St. Quentin invested ard | with the British battling dogsedIy for ' Cambrai, the great Hindenburg de fense system is in danger of being preached at three of it's strongest points Once busted from it the Tcu tons will have back of them no strong Qualifications until they reach the Maubeuge defenses
 The taking of St Quentin remains a difficult task, however, for the Ger mans are in strong defensive positions and a captured order from General ven 1 Morgen, to the 14th reserve corps em- phasizes the importance of the posi- , ton they hold. He orders them not to yield another foot of ground in the im- minent decisive battles
 ' While the British and French were forging ahead relentlessly in the west the Serbs and the French in Macedcnia wara making more emDhatip their de- feat of ihe BuIgars who have been re-
 inforced by German troops. There il