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Show SECOND ! GERMAN LINE IS BROKEN French Make the Most Important Advance of , Present Offensive Movement When They Take by Storm Tahure , Hill, Dominating Rail- , road. HEAVY GUNS CAN CHECK SUPPLIES Village on Summit Is Taken by Rush of Infantry After Usual Bombardment of Fearful Fear-ful Intensity; Many Prooners Captured. ii lBieraatfonal Service j TON. Oct. 6. The most impor-v. impor-v. idvaaee yet aeored by the French i r.r.t rrescst .ffr. !.. - ' ham- KM m made at the point of the towt today, when they earned by furrr assault the village of Tahure .J a! to rammrt of Tahure hill, mak -', s ore than 1000 Germans prisoners. . Ifrtti advance the Preneh have cut histoid line of defense of the G.t- ne ant have established themaelves ! ii Kirt of vantage where their heai y pby will have a commanding sweep (tie Coallerange-Bazancourt railway K oae of the moat vital arteries of pry for the German army on this . Xot only are important German -i I 'ommunication threatened, but rVfich, by this finally successful 1 fct bare inserted a wedge between kirar of the crown prince and the C'rttj force 0n his right. Drive Was Expected. nrft news of the gathering: force of h -IriTe in this section came -- "4 official report from Berlin today. 3 r"f thi statement, the heavy wl artillery opened the prepara-r, prepara-r, bombardment yesterday morning. oaamade increased io intensity 3 the German defenses during J kifteraooD, indicating to the belea W Germans that the French were ;;l tie way for a general attack bv i-t ki the attack by infantry .ante, a! lesperatelv, and " for a " "fectively, oppoaed the onrnsh, fl fftawb being driven back time after P "tvy losses. Final)-.- the - n,ra,l shell fire and the furv of ol '''"'assault that followed -a r-J r-J chzrPZ Frenchmen past the V rrier and onto their goal. "te Joffre'g pians. ''Geteral JoffreVplan to crush the 3 """t, the target of the NE an CliamPa(' from the first has ' "tt"-ork of railway, and higb-!j higb-!j i"11 a!"3 northwest of St. Jfecc-' Jfecc-' ; ni,',0" 'his plain '' r f of the Aril Ar-il CI. ' ther,? ar" "vera I lateral wmmunieation which bear heav-A heav-A 'le security of the German linet 1 v Tf- 7h road fro,n e,lan ;;, "roogb Vouziers, about fifteen fcwth of st Menehould, and this feeder of the German sup-. sup-. ,,1 J"' IJPOT and its bpreadmg '' iai't a"' 0erraan troops from Ijji , "is,,on8 depend lorood and r,.'(i' 8iX milpn f""lth of , ,lw' roxi braochc, off at i ee and runs eastward paral-0 paral-0 ;.; German defense linn, to Wx' Wbere ' i"'"' w'th the "1 ItJ i f lw French attacks was. "' kp "apt"' r destroy this "hal '"-ancourt branch, or , ,. ., j '' '''eir artillerv fire. i " Per Supplies. , if. the incentive for the i .; ting of the first days of the " 'he mo,t terrific fighting i , ' -,"rgne battle occurred in "r of Tahure. ' '8 ""'It on a lov.- hdl al,.- ;i . 2': T north, on the opes away gently and tatted on Vage Three.) FRENCH CUT FOE'S MD DEFENSE LI (Continued from Page One.) spreads out into a level plain. Along this plain and distant onlv three miles from the summit of the hill, which Is now in French hands, lies the coveted railway line, within easv range for several miles due enst and west. Aside from hampering the supply oi' the troops, continued occupation bv: the French of this position will strike at the very core of the German system of defense, for it is upon facility for movement of reserves behind the first lineB that the German commanders depend de-pend for their support in time of urgeut need. While motor traffic, has been developed de-veloped to a hia;h state of efficiency to supply this need, the railways are still a necessity. Fighting on the remainder of the front has been confined to artillery combats com-bats which have raged with particular violence-in the Artois sector and about the Givenchy woods, where the French and Germans for the last few days have won and lost trenches several times between be-tween suns. |