The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-10
CANADIANS TAKE
PART IN GREAT
CAMBRIA FIGHT
Meet English in City Which Is
MOpped Up,

OF fact, cavalry might have gone
through the German lines Tuesday
night in considerable numbers. Only
patrols we're sent out, however, while
the main bodies were held Just back
OF the line
After a night of heavy firing from
the British guns during which tho sky
seemed 70 blaze with flashes, the third
and fourth armies again attacked We'd
ne,day morning from Cambria south
OF the front held BY the French At
the same time the Canadian and Eng
lish troops. after crash" barrage
launchs 'yiul attack Z ~9
some miles north from Cambria
For mile, the front suddenly SpranC
into action The Canadians had hard
going al one place Just north Of Cam
lrAi but with great galantry swept on
alter annlhlating the Germans who
tried TO bar their way From there on
The resistance weakened and the Ca
nadians with the English, hurried east
ward ,moihcrlng the usual screen OF
German machine Runner' as they went
Tunnels Cleared
Canadian and British troop, met In
me center OF Cambria. which was en-
tered from both north and south and
quickly mopped up Many Germans had
escaped but many hundreds who had
been held there TO launch a counter
attack were either killed or captured
Some Of the enemy troops are still in
deep cellars two stories underground
and the tunnels the Germans dug dur
ing ihclr occupation OF the CITY These
are being routed ont and sent back TO
'hc cages
\''hough many fires were started by
'hc Germans the town was found not
. be as badly damaged as had been
.carrd The solid buildings withGood
me flames well I, was quite evident
however. that n was no fault Of the
Germans that the city had not been
'eyclc+ 10 the ground by the many fires
hey had klniled
Twenty mile Front Moves
South o.. thc city the third and fourth
amfr, rapidly uycrcame enemy oppoSi-
'iuu The Germans started fleeing soon
after the attack began, Tor they real
yr1 they were fighting a battle in
which they could hGpc for no success.
THE front lime for twenty miles began
moving rapidly eastward Then came
report, from airpancs, with which the
sky was literally crowded, that VAN
haiN had been taken Soon the capture
oi Harcourt was reported From then on
'idings Camc,ln rapid succession Of vii
! gey falling before the allied advance,
d Selypny, Caullcry Lgny, M1ntigny
and Maret1 were quickly reached and
passed and then the allies were closing
m on Cauiry and Bcrtrv. A. the same
Time from the north il was reported
hat EScaudocuvres, east Of Cambria.
had been taken and that lnchy was be
NC approached
South Threshold Open.
The tambrai-le Ca'cau road was
.,cd and then The railway between
- Quentin and Rcrtry was cut Sc,
0rn,"ur, was then in sight and Fon-
7'nb Noire Dame. farther south had
been reached nv the French By that
lime ~ was clear the enemy was badly
he'd and that the British and the
'wcr.can, stood on the threshold Of the
.'lr open south
T. was a, about that time that the
.7ta'N which had been waiting
poured through The wide breach in the
u'w battered Hndonburg system and
,trsamcd out into the country beyond
East "whippet" tanks and armorcd
r,r' also crashed forward and came
into action They performed extremely
Na'uahle services in pursuing the flee
'ng Germans killing many and round
rrg mp large number Of prisoners
They smashed down strong points held
hv rear guards who had been waiting
ior the cavalry knowing that n had
20 come through The line
Cavalry Advances
Cavalry forces now arc apparently
we'll east OF the towns reported cap
igred where the allies have broken
through The Germans north and
south for many miles are endangered
'or their lines are being turned Re.
treats on even a broader scale than
that now in progress may therefore Ne
c.nectcd
Officers. directing the attack were
distinctly satisfied as the news came
back in report, from airpancS and hy
runners, bu, finally one came back that
showed better than anything else how
completely the enemy had been defeat.
rd Thi, was renort from am air pa
troll that British infantry had been seen
marching as II on narade in a column
oi tours into and through the town oI
Bertry The men we're swinging along
entirely uumoleSted by the enemv
Disorder In Flight.
Nno,her patrol brought word Of the
Germans fleeing in the greatest diSor-
der as far east as lie Cateiu Enemy
troops and transports, il was said were
streaming along the roads
Germans fled along ihe roads and
nyer the fields trying 20 make their
escape for with the British cavalry
Ralloping over the country and with
"whlppet" tanks and armored cars
worklng. they realized that It was eN-
,remely dangerous Tor them TO tarry
anywhere
Rear Lines Weak.
Such thing as troops who have
Just stacked marching through a town
10000 yards from the place where they
stafted Is thing that has not hap
pened 10 this war Tor long time. Such
thing could only happen now when