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Show HUNS SUFFERING FEARFUL LOSSES IN FIGHT VITH BRITONS By The Associated Press. WITH THK BRITISH ARM IKS IN I FRANCE, Sept. 3. While the British were fighting their way further forward well j inside the Drocourt-Queant line today an 1 attack was launched .iust to the south, j where a stromj British force is driving a! lead on the northern reaches of the Hindenburg line proper. AjraLn there has I been furious fighting, tnousands of pris-i pris-i oners having been taken and the enemy j has suffered terrific losses, i Since the British hetran their attack i yesterday morning along the Drocourt-! Drocourt-! Quean t switch line the Germans have not J been given an instant in which to collect j themselves. They hesitate for a moment I and the British troops are on top of them, ; and pushing beyond. i In the towns through which the British ' advanced the fighting has been most se-; se-; vere. In many instances tanks charged into masses of Germans and crushed . them. j On tho extreme British Ipft stiff oppo-' oppo-' .ition seemed to be developing this morn j ing, and counter-attacks were expected. ! It is not believed that these reactions will I be in any grent strength, however, for ; the attack on the Hindenburg line itself, i just to the south of its junction with the i Drocourt line at Qucant, means that this stronghold is In grave danger and that the Gern inns cmii h:ti iM' ;ilhuv t lu ir f"i i-es to Mhlo .'ilip ,i ii-l rt in i:i I c In flc.lil UK h.-u-k of Un I H't n'i ui i'l llrin. (Tlit- cipiure of (.,tui-:uil W!im ol'Iiclalh- reported hv l-'h'ld Mar-.hul llimv Tho oppo.Ht t ton In l he Miti I hern :i i -m of the priu. -ipiul Itllll.-.h ntlneks .ecin to he 1 diminishing mily Ntight I y. I i t it t.-h c:i n-noiv n-noiv havn treii uiuvi'd up with the nil :ince of tho Itifaul i y. and lh htnKs and Siiells are now dclu;;inj; tho tlcrnian real arva,s. Kvry where the l.'df-nani necin to lie relying m imichlno t;unn, nnd tlie ground Im covenxl wllh them, grouped In pocket j and Hinttered alnnit ,s:nv. ly. Iielven I'tTonne and Hapauiue the Woo.1 of St. IMern-- ini.-.l and lifter beiiu captured, arc heing mo.prd up by Ih-lLlsh lorces. |