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Show A J f WQ Q fif A QUJKJP jPAPWA PD) A L Li E D SlfiSu IS REPLY TO PE1 BID j British and Americans Launch Terrific Attack on Front of 20 Miles; I Go Forward 3 Miles. Essigny and Other Vil-! Vil-! lages Taken in St. ! Quentin Sector; Many Gun Crews Killed. LON'DOX, Oct. S. General Al-lenby's Al-lenby's cavalry on Sunday occupied occu-pied the towns of ,Zahleh and Kayai, respectively tlurty-tliree and dirty miles northwest of the Syrian capital of Damascus, ac-ccrctit;; ac-ccrctit;; to an official statement issued today by the British war office. I.OXL1' 'N. O. t. ?. Ki lt i-li and Amor-ican Amor-ican troops attacked tnis morlnn:; on the tront betuern St. f.ientin ami ( um-'frai. um-'frai. l-'ieM Mar-h:il llai.L' announecd to. lay. atisivc;nry pro-res is be;n-; rna-ie. the field marshal srares. The text of th statement reads: 'The- third and fourth armies at tacked on a front of about twenty jnuics this morning between t. cuentin iaii-i (. ambrai. anl hae advanced alonj: the whole of this front to an average I det'tii of about three mile-. ! The niaht had been stormy, making (the asen:biy of troops difficult. The a.-ault was launcha d in a-downpour of irjin. As the attack pro;res-ed the weather clearci. favoriiu the deveioc ! tnent of the operations, which from the j first were completely Mn-i-es-fnl. j "On the extreme right of the Brit-j Brit-j isii attack, Knglish divisions have ciriven the enemy from the ridg- of high ground southeast and east of Montbrebain and have captured the hamlet of Ueaurejapl. "In the rifiht center tiie Thirtieth American division, comprising troops from North ami South Carolina - and Tennessee, under command of Ueneral Lewis, captured Brancourt after heavy ifiyhtin'f. Further to the northeast they ! took Prcmont. compl-tinc; a successful advanr of over three miles, in the course of which they c'.eare.l the enemy from a number of farms and woods. I "On their left l-incilish, .S.'ottish and Irish battalions captured the village of iserain early in the day. In the center ! Knfdisli and Welsh battalions broke i through the ficrm.tn defense system j 'known as Ihe r;eaucvnir-Ma,snieres line jand captured Malincnurt. I WELSH TROOPS CAPTURE VILLAGE. j "Obstinate resistance was met from strong; bodies of the enemy with ma-jciiino ma-jciiino guns at Villers flutreaux. After hard fighting' the Welsh gained possession posses-sion of the village. "In the left center the New Xealand-ers Xealand-ers broke through the Hratnevoir-Mas-nieres line and made deep progress to the east, of it. The New Zealand troops formed l.esdain early in the morning, and, pressing on, earned Ksnes. j ")n the left, of the attack we had I hard fighting about Sera n villers and Nirrgnier; and along the line of the Ksnes-I 'ambrai road. In this 'ector the enemy counter attacked strougly, using tanks to support his infantry. "After pressing us lun-k a short distance dis-tance Ihe counterattack was stopped,! the enen.v tanks being put out of ae-jto,,n. ae-jto,,n. We gained pos.-cssion of Ser- ;.-,xillers and Nicrgni.'s and resumed our atj ance. j No'd h of the Sc.-troc we lia e cap- i Continued on fasc Four ALLIED - SMASH IS' REPLY TD PEACE (Continued from Page One.) tared a Herman trcnoh system known as the Fresncs-Rouvroy line, t'rom t lie Searpe beyond (ipy, and have taken Fresnes-los Montaulmn and Xeuvireuil. "A thousand prisoners and many puns ha' e been raptured in these sue-eessful sue-eessful operations. Progress continues to be made along the whole f'rout. " j LONDON. Oct. S. The British and I Anierieans have advaneed to a depth or' about three miles along a twenty-mile front in their great, attack between St. Queutin and I'amhrai today. Field Marshal llaig makes this announcement in his report from headquarters tonight. to-night. On the right of the new Anglo-American Anglo-American advance in the St. Quern in sector, Kssignv and other villages have been taken, according to the Kveuing News. WTTH" THE BRITISH ARMY ON THK ST. yi'ENTIN FRONT, Oct. S (Associated Press). The British launched a terrific attack on a front of about twentv miles today from Cant-brai Cant-brai southward. American forces cooperated, co-operated, and the French at the south also attacked, in conformity with the general plan. J'his was the answer of the fighting iBritish armies to the German bid for peace. Early in the day. smashing blows had carried the British and Americans deep into the positions of the staggering enemy. The battle is one of the most furious, as well as one of the most important, of the nar. The British cannon, wheel to wheel, sent tons of explosives crashing crash-ing on top of the enemy in a whirlwind barrage during the better part of the night and early morning. The very air trembled and the earth rocked with the continuous roar of explosions. ex-plosions. The exploding shells throbbed i iiily against clouds from w hich rain poured, the flashes being isible for manv miles. |