Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-22 | Page 1 | [Illegible] of St. Quentine Fall; Hindenburg Line is Breaking

i JffQlpQ fp Qlp (Of JPTllKJ R A J J He; t 1 1 L li 1 L III SICE Anglo - French Actions Are Preparing Way for Later Offensive on Enemy's Stronghold. Germans Believed to Be Planning Retreat Before Yankee Front Southeast of Metz. By Universal Servlc. WITH THE AMERICAN AESIT m ALSACE, Sept. 21. Tho Germans Ger-mans are shelling our Alsaca front with gas, using a new larga projector pro-jector ranging a quarter of a mile. Tiey threw 6000 atolls over into oar lines la two nights. Ttree wounded prisoners cap-tared cap-tared "by a couple of American cooks assert they helievfl tho -war win be over in four or tix weeks. By Associated Press. j AHIed troops are projrresslr satisfactorily satisfac-torily to breaking down tha dofenses of St Quentln. On the north the British are fighting In the Hindcnbarg positions and pressing toward the canal between Bt Quentln and Cambrai, while on the south the French are moving forward steadily. For a stretch of more than ten mllos north of St Qnentln the British now hold the dominating- hills and the present local action In the region west of Cntultt probabiy la for the purpose of fm-tbr.r improving im-proving tho situation In anticipation of a great assault aj,-aitrat the IDndenburg line. The main enemy defenses In the region between Camhral and St Quentln, both of which are threatened by I ho present British operations, are based on the canal, highway and railroad running nortti and couth on an average of about two miles from .Field Marsha HaUr front line. BRITISH ARMIES NEAR LE CATELET. Toward Le Catelet the British ar pressing eastward on a front of thre milea and are within four mlie of tr town, one of the important German b;i5?s on thin front With tho Australians ;iJ -ready In tbe Hindenburg positions, o;hcr British forces are rapidly overrunn Ing them north of Hagicourt. Wet of Sr. Quentln the French are within two milp of the outskirts, while on the nouth Lhry are forcing the Germane to give up important im-portant villages and ofhor po?ifina SL Quentln, aa a result of tbe wVa operations. Is in a more. serio's positkn from the enemy's viewpoint than probaMy at any time Flftce the beginning of the war, CIRCLE TIGHTENS ON ST. QUENTIN. A. further puh cwetwanj by (he British from their newly won he's-nt positions on the northwost will virtually p'arr. thf bes on Lhros sid.s of t.'ie town. Ff. Quentln is an important ontpost of Jnn, perha.ps the most important cnemv ba in northern rYar-re. The French on the south are tn rnl'f from Laon and a r f hammering It wUh thrir big frurm. Southwest of Mji z, v.-here t b; Kreu.- h and Americans rc;ntly rlfir'-d the St. Mi hi I rail en t, toe Gr-rrnans havo ntj rf further firc. SoMr:i a nd wn -.:on t have been Bn moving north war), ana It in b! loved the Germans ar preparing for a possible all!f att'iH-; or a r": 1 mcnt or. thrlr 0"vn initiative Kiscwhr-T-.i on tbe wtriern frorf (.N rr h.'j-P h'-cn no change in the. rrl'ua 'Ion. BRITISH LA UNCH NEW ATTCKS FOR SCHELDT CANAL WITH THV: BUTlN'f F'IK.TiS TH ; FftANCP:. S'-pt. 21. '-y th- A'iatrd , prc-rs.) p;r(ii;b Tr";.'- ! '-.rk'-d tho German li:i.:i rn;o-.v;j y !,( w;cn f'i vr"a-j vr"a-j court wood and St. Qur-ntln ft h;Uf-ja:-it ' (Continued on Page Th-rco ENTENTE WBT COMES STEADILY (Continued from Page One.) five o'ciock this morning on a front from two and one-half to three miles. Field Marshal Haig's thrust was made toward the strip of high ground in front I of the Hindenburg defenses which cover j the Scheldt canal. j The area under attack is immediately north of that part of the line held by the Australians, who have already gained I the Hindenburg outpoet system and are closer to the canal than the infantry on either side of them. Progress has already been made in spite of the bad weather and some 400 prisoners have been taken from the fortified for-tified farms and sunken roads between the new British battlefront and the Siegfried Sieg-fried trenches. It rained heavily during the night and at, the time of the assembling of the assaulting troops, bat the concentration was carried oat without delay under a heavy bombardment. The enemy was plainly apprehensive of a further defeat, and his divisions were waiting for the British, advance. The ground over which the battle was fought was broken and very difficult to I clear. The gullies were full of machine 1 guns and a slight ridge which stood be-l be-l tween the advancing British and the Hin- denburg defenses gave the enemy a considerable con-siderable advantage. During the night a local attack on the i front of La Bassee yielded the chateau and ruins of the church of the village of Violalnes which is less than a mile northwest north-west of La Bassee, together with 130 prisoners. pris-oners. ! Between La Bassee and Lens the enemy shows great nervousness. A hostile hos-tile attack delivered yesterday around Hulluch was intended to test the British strength. The thorough clearance of the rains of Moeuvres, on the Canal du Nord, has released re-leased a party of Scottish machine gunners, gun-ners, who had been cut off since the German Ger-man counter-attack into the village Wednesday Wed-nesday night. A corporal and six men of the Highland light infantry, although wholly surrounded by Germans, held out, fighting continuously for forty-eight hours and inflicting severe casualties on the enemy, who was unable to dislodge them. The Scots were nearly exhausted for lack of food and water when their British comrades drove back into the ruins and found them still crouched around then-machine then-machine guns. On the remainder of the British front quiet prevailed today.