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Show M k ! k k 1 1 M 1 if i m W fit if & M 1 1! fie Si i Ten Thousand Prisoners Prison-ers and Over Hundred Guns Are Taken in Big German Defeat. Huns Admit Occupying Occupy-ing Positions to the Rear and Announce 'Giving Up Cambrai." Ijj N L'O N , C'ct. 9 . Tiie whole of G am brai is in British possession. Field Marshal Mar-shal Hats reports tonight from headquarters. headquar-ters. The Canadians were the first 'O enter the town. In the great defeat intlicted on t'ne Germans Ger-mans yesterday, J.0.1X" prisoners and from lO'.t to -"'0 guns were captured. The statement says: "'V.'e inflicted a heavy defeat on ih enemy yesterday between St. Quentin and Cambrai, taking over lO.O'.O prisoners and between H'tj and -00 guns. "No less than twenty-three German divisions were engaged on this front; they were severely handled. TROOPS ADVANCE ON WHOLE FRONT. "The result of this action is that the troops have been enabled to advance today to-day on the whole front between the Somme and the Sensee and are making rapid progress eastward, capturing rear guard detachments of the enemy, isolated batteries and maehine-gT.m posts. Numbers Num-bers of the inhabitants who were left in ; the captured villages have met t'ne advancing ad-vancing troops with enthusiasm. "The whole of Cambrai is in our possession. pos-session. The Canadians entered th.e town from t'ne north at an early hour this morning, while at a later hour English troops of tiie Third army passcdthrough i the northern portion of the town. ! "Since August 21 the Fritish First. ! T h i rd and Fo u r t h armies have broke n through the whole elaborate series ot j deep defensive zones built up w ith suc-i suc-i cessive belts of heavily foriiried trench lines, including the entire I lindenburg system, on a front of over thirty-five miles from St. Quentin to Arras. Having penetrated this battle area to a depth of between thirty and forty miles, our troops are now operating far beyond and cast of the Itindenburg defenses. FINE BRITISH FEAT OF ARMS. "In the process of these operations ana since the date mentioneU we have intlicted intlict-ed very heavy- losses on the enemy in killed and w on tided and have taken ov er HO.iXO prisoners and lib"1 g.;ns. "This feat of arms has ! een performed by Fritish troops who had already withstood with-stood the first heaviest onslaughts of the enemy's main forces in tne spring. Only the endurance and determined spirit of these troops permitted them io pass to the offensive with such conspicuous success. suc-cess. By their heroic action ih defense, and attack, ihe men from a'i parts of the Krittsh empire hav e pi ov ed themselves soldiers of the hiphesV order. "The advance continues this aiteniuon. We have reached tiie line of Hon; in, Busigny, Candry and Gaurior." GERMANS GO TO REAR POSITIONS AND "GIVE UP CAMBRAI" r.F.nt.lN. via London. O-'t. V. "On ihe bat tic front bet ween Cambrai and St. Quentin. we occ upied positions to the rc.i:, thereby giving up Cambra" scys the. headquarters announcement lonipM. "There way minor lit inp in Cham-VMgnc. Cham-VMgnc. On K'lh sides of the Meuse renewed re-newed enemy attacks developed. PARIS. '(:. ?, tl:F p. ni. The AnPlo-French AnPlo-French troops, li.ee forced tiie German." In a pen era I retreat north and south of St. Quentin. The First armv. put-sump (Continued on Page Twelve.) r CAMDRAf FULLS TO BRITISH FORCES (Continued from Page One.) the enemy rear .guards, has advanced about five miles to the east of St. Quen- I tin and taken 2000 prisoners. GERMANS IN FULL FLIGHT ON FRONT OF TWENTY MILES WITH THE BRITISH ARMY ON" CAMBRAI-ST. QUENTIN FRONT. Oct-9, Oct-9, 4:30 p. m. (By the Associated Press.) The German trotips, on a twenty-mile front, have been rut to flipht and the British cavalry is reported to -he pursuing them, the infantry marrhinp in coluninH of four through villages hastily abandoned bv the enemv. 'Cambrai has fallen and the Iiritish are now well to the east. The deepest pain some hours ago was at least nine miles on this wee tor, and there are no signs of the advance slowing up. On the contrary, it is coin?' faster everv hour, with clear ground ahead. Everything that could be burned had been set atire by the enemy before iie began be-gan what virtually amounts to the mut of no less than thirty divisions, the smashing of which was continued furiously furi-ously todv. North of Cambrai the Canadians attacked at-tacked and penetrated deeply also. The Britfsh marched through Bertry without opposition. They reached the outskirts of Troisvillers and hold Maurois and Honnechy. Large forces of the enemv have hni seen from the air fleeing well to the cast of I-.e 'atcau. Maretz fell early, and thr iritl.'t reached Bu.'izny and pa?d nul'-kly through Bohain. These are only a frw of nvre than a genre of towns i apt urr-d. Manv thousand?" of prisoners mid quantities quan-tities of field and machine puns wvrn taken, as w:ll as vast stores of othr booty, whl "h the enemy did not have time to blow up or set afire. |