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Show 7 HALF MILLION HUN TROOPS CRUSHED AND PUT TO FLIGHT BY ALLIED ARMS . ... BRITISH CAVALRY ENTERS LE CATEAU, BIG GERTiIAH BAS5 Germans Are Fleeing Toward Belgian Border on Wide Sectors Along Whole 100-Mile Front Between Cambrat and Rheims. T""" By Aeeaelated Press. LONDON, Oct. 10. British cavalry today reached the outskirts out-skirts of Le Cateau, the railway junction southeast of Cambral, which is the immediate British objective, the Exchange Telegraph company says it learns. . By' Unlt.4 PrMs. PARIS, Oct. 10, 3:45 p. m. The Germans are reported to be withdrawing on wide sectors along the whole 100-mile front between Cambrai and Rheims. They are employing countless machine guns to slacken the allied- push. ' - - Toward Guise the allies are accentuating their progress mi are reported to have reached the Sambre-Oise canal. ... . (This represents an additional advance of about four miles northeast of St. Quentin.) The railway from Laon to Maubeuge via Guise is now under fire.-Northeast of Vailly General Mangin is advancing On the roads toward Craonne. , . . WITH THE ANGf.O-AMERICAN FORCES SOUTHEAST OF CAMBRAI, Oct. 1 0. British and American forces continued to advance "rapidly ahuTare driving the demoralized Germans before them,, according to all available reports on this front. The whole battle is on a field that was aflame throughout the night. JThe many fires have completely destroyed towns and farmhouses. .By United Press. LONDON, Oct. 10. Allied troops are within two miles of , the great German base of Le Cateau, Field Marshal Haig announced today. ' The British have begun to advance eastward from Lens and have captured Sallaumines and Noyclles, about two miles east of that city. Le Cateau Is only fifteen miles from the Belgian border between be-tween Valenciennes and Maubeuge. it Is seventeen miles directly south of the former city. RECORD BATTLE IN PROGRESS. By United Press. . The greetest victory In military hltory appears to he In the making". Attacking on a front of nearly fifty mllee, from south of Ht. Quentin to the vlrlnlty of Doual, BrltlsH? French and American troopa are reported to have effected a complete break threush along nearly half of thle front. - -. Through thle sap the allied fnrrea are pouring- In purault of nearly hair . a million of Oermany's beat soldiers, who are reported to be In utter rout. Allied cavalry la galloping" at the heela of the retreating Qermana, while our Infantry la following In their wake, practically without opposition. A great number of prlaonera and vaat quantltlea of material have been taken. Hlatighter of the enemy, as the allied troopa awept through their laat organised defenaea on thla front, la reported to have bee appalling. Mora than 11.000 prlaonera were taken In Tueaday'a operations alone, according to official report. A number greatly In sxcese of that figure Is believed to have been captured yesterday. ' , , "' Frpnch Pursue Foe : During Night y UnltaS Presa. PARIS. Oct. IS Renewal of the at. tare. In tha Laon region Wss announced by the Frenca war office today. Progress was made there as wall ag east of BU Quentin and In tha Champagne Cham-pagne s "During tha night our pursuit, of th enemy continued, east of St. Quentin," " tha eommsnlqus said, "We occupied Landrlcourt wood and ' passed Beautroux snd Fontaine Notr Dame, "North of the A lane (In tha Laon reslon) we vigorously pushed tha enemy in tha region east of Oatel. We hold Ia Croix rlan Hlete tableland, and croased tha Alane canal farther eastward In tha region of Vlllera-en-Prayeres, "In tha Champagne, a) sharp attack allowed ua to take Ury, with aoina prlaonera." Anglo-Americans . -Increase Breach . By Aeseclsted Press. . LONDON, Oct, 10. Tha attack of tha Anglo-American foreea In th breach between Ht. Quentin and Cambral Cam-bral resulted yesterday evening In continued con-tinued ad van nee, according to Field Marshal Halg'a report today. Tha British are now within two mile, -of (Continued on pace I). ., ... , 9 . ALLIED VICTORY IS EXTENDED OVER WIDEfRONT (Continued from -pact 1). La Cateau. Ballaumlnea and Noyelles have been raptured. Further prosjreea was made by the British toward the northern port of the present battlefront to the east of Cambral. FljfhUnjr is folns; on southeast south-east of Cambral on both sides of Cau-dxy Cau-dxy Field Marshal Hal reported, Hetween Lena and the Scarp the British also are advancing and are In touch with the Germans to the west of the line of Vttry-en-Artoia, Aiei-les-Equerchin and Rouvrojr. i ' a i i Italy Enthusiastic Over Wilton's Reply By Aseociststf Press. ROME. Oct. 10. "The answer of the American sovernment to the proposals of the central powers Is what the whole entente, in Its soul, looked for," says the semiofficial Btefanl News Agency. "The terms used In answerinff the German note are a clear demonstration that Prealdent Wilson Is aiming at just and iHsting peace. "The Italian government ! alive to Its duties and la proceeding tn must complete iiareement with Its allien.. It Is sure .of shterpretlng the unanimous desire or the nation." |