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Show RALLIES DRIVE p I British and French Ar-j If; mies Encircling J St Quentin. S TAKE STRONG POINTS' Pits ',' ? More High Ridges and Prisoners Taken in , Fight, ; ! WITH THE BRITISH FORCES IN I ; FRANCE, Sept. 23. (By the Associat. cd Press.) 10 a. m, In n small attack! east of Gavreile' In the Arras sector! . British troops last night advanced; thetr lines for an average depth of 600 i ' ; yards along a front of 1100 yards. j i LONDON, Sept. 23 British forces' j Inst night attacked the German lines.) x between St. Quentin and Cambral, op-i : poolto Le Catelet, making progress in the vicinity of Tombols farm and cap-; cap-; luring a group of trenches and strong points on the ridge northwest of Vend- hull, Field Marshal Halg announced in' i ' his official statement today. , Another enemy strong point near the v Ronssoy-Bony road, Just to the south, also was taken by the British. A suc- ' ccssful local attack was carried out J'' south of Villers-Gulslaln. Northwest of St. Quentin the Ger- l mans penetrated the British line at i one point at Berthaucourt during an attack. The position was rc-cstabllsh- i ed by a counter-attack. French Troops Advancing. ' PARIS, Sept. 23 French troops :?" i yesterday and last night made notable lift " progress In their drive for enclrcle- jj : ment of St, Quentin. They pushed in j j?; , far on the south and captured the vll-i T,r lage and fort of Vcndeull, close to the! f ... f Olse, nine miles southeast of St, Qucn-1 jjgii ;( tin, today's war office announcement shows. 1 From Vcndeull the French pushed ,'i on to the river. North of Ly Fontaine i'tit ) t,lev Penetrated the wood In the direc- , tlon of Hlnaucourt. Tne text of the statement follows: j "In the region of St. Quentin the is?T j French troops continued their advance i yesterday evening and last night. They I -l Penetrated the wood north of Ly Fon- Itgfy , taine, captured the fort and village of y ;.; Vcndeull and pushed on to the Olse. h "French reconnoltcrlng parties took Si'l $ prisoners north of the Alsne and in the sj! ; Champagne in the direction of thet tSf i Butte du Mesnll. German raids north Ijgf ; of the Veole and In the Vosgcs failed." ft l. BERLIN, Sept. 23. (Via London) ju ': British forces to the east of Epehy, Kfi '1 80Uthwest of Cambral, yesterday ob-j ? tolned a footing in sections of the ?i Gernian trenches, says the official Hff statement issued by the German gen- fKJj ? cral headquarters staff. ! Smashing Bulgarian Lines Serbian and Allied troops In central j , Macedonia have delat the Gorman and tim i Bulgarian communication lines blowa wjB that aro expected to brlnj about a comPcto readjustmont of tho' enemy ) positions In tlie Macedonian theater : ot operations. Tho Important railway i 'in8 from Uakub to Salonlki and from iflWj Gradsko to Prllep have been severed t ani cm forcea around Lako - Dolran and north of Monustlr arc In .tirtS . dailS?r of. being outflanked and cap- I tared. 0n western front the British French aro progroaalnc success- fuy ln lne,r encirclement of St. Quentin. Tho French have seriously jj&i menaced the Gormans by the capture .Vjfjt of Vendeull, nine miles south-south- MXi : "west of SL Quontln. VS - prman and Bulgarian relnforc- iMZjL wenta thrown In to chock the Serbian r'KflS advanco tmvard Uskub have been ViP forccd to Join In tho rotroat of their amM : comrades by tho impetuous Sorbs, who fllg? .' o" havo advanced -10 miles since 22 ; September 15. Prisoners captured 'g : from the enemy aro being ndded to. I?3 tlle nrETeS3 northward continues, -I' ft "fttimtM and the quantity of war material also Ik increasing. Allies Advance on 50-Mlle Front Tho salient driven into Qio Bulgar-Ian Bulgar-Ian lines at Sokol has been widened until now the Allies are advancing on a front of nearly fifty miles, stretching ' from east of Salonlki to the Vardar. When they reached tho Vardar, the Serbians were able to cut tho railway running south toward Salonlki and tho only communication line of the Bulgarians Bul-garians In tho region of L.ako Dolran. Tho Se'rblaus havo reached tho highest high-est point of the mountain region In the upper part of the Cerna bend and I cut the railway from Gradsko, southeast south-east of Uskub to Prllep, tho base of the German army operating north and j northeast of Monastlr. Enemy Forces in Great Peril By cutting the railway lines the Serbians have placed two large enemy ene-my forces in groat peril. The Bulgarians Bul-garians around Dolran might retire northeastward over the mountains In 'Bulgaria or north along the Vardar. British and Greek troop3 are opposing them on the south. The Serbs could, however, by crossing in force to tho south along tho Vardar, cut off the best means of retreat. Apparently the Germans around Prllep aro in a worse position than the Bulgarians at Dolran. To retire northward would be to move over virtual vir-tual cowpaths toward Uskub. Best roads lead east and west. To the east the retreat has boon cut off while to tho west the roads run toward to-ward tho border of Albania. Tho French after capturing the town and fort of Vendeull, have driven a sharp salient into tho German defenses de-fenses between St. Quentin nnd Laon. Vendeull Is one of the most distant outposts of Lnon which Is one of the main posts- on the Illndcnburg line. Its capture places tho forces on the west bank of tho Olse In a position to cross tho OIso cannl and "carry out the encircling from the south and east. Vendeull Is nine miles north -northwest of Laon and on tho Scheldt canal two miles west of Le Catelet. Northwest North-west and southwest of the town the British have captured German strong points and rapidly are closing in on It from three directions. Further north Field Marshal llaig's men have carried out a successful local lo-cal attack south of Villers-Gulslaln, taking 100 prisoners. In a local operations op-erations northeast of Arras the British captured sixty prisoners southeast of Gavreile and made some progress. Tons of Bombs Dropped. LONDON. Sept. 23. Machines of the British independent air force dropped drop-ped nenrly sixteen tons of bombs on German a'lrdromes and on blast furnaces fur-naces in the Metz region on Saturday night. It was olllclally announced today. to-day. On the frorit between Arras and Lens there was a continuation of tho advanco movement In the neighborhood neighbor-hood ot Gavrllle. Southeast of that village vil-lage English troops made progress on a front of three-quarters of a mile. Successful minor operations were carried out by our troops yesterday and durlug the night at soveral points, ln the afternoon English troops captured cap-tured a German strong point, In the neighborhood of tho Ronssoy-Bony road which had held out stubbornly all day, taking eighty prisoners. "Later In the afternoon a hostile counter-attack from tho direction of Gulllcmont farm was repulsed with heavy losses by our rifle and machine gun fire. "During tho nlgh't other English troops made progress in the direction of Tombols farm after several hours hard fighting and farther north captured cap-tured a group of strongly hold trenches trench-es and strong points on the spur northwest north-west of Vcndhuele, taking a number of prisoners. "During tho night also over 100 prisoners pris-oners were captured by us In a successful suc-cessful local attack south of Vlllers- Gulslain. "East ot Gavreile English troops I made progress on a front of about three-quarters of a mile, capturing sixty prisoners. "Early last night tho enemy attacked Berthacourt under a cover of a heavy artillery barrage and penetrated our lino at one point. An immediate counter-attack by our troops completely re-established the positions." Enemy Meets Heavy Losses I LONDON, Sept. 23 Gorman troops 'late, yesterday counter-attacked in the vicinity ot Gillomont farm on the front between Cambral and St. Qucn- tin, to tho west of Le Catelot. Field 'Marshal Halg'a statement today announces an-nounces the repulse of tho enemy HvMl heavy losses. Northwest of SL Quentin the Germans Ger-mans penotrated the British line at ono point at Berthaucourt during an nttaclc. Tho position was rc-established by a counter-attack. Influenza on Transport. AN ATLANTIC PORT. Sept. 23. An American transport arriving here today to-day from another Atlantic port had aboard thirty-six cases of Spanish Influenza In-fluenza among the crew. They were removed to u hospital. |