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Show Mighty Smash Sweeps Foe From Strong Line Into Disorderly Rout By Aaeoclsta Press. WITH THK BRITISH ARMY ON TUB CAMBRAI-HT. QtlKNTIN rRONT Ort. 10-Aft.r a BlKht of heavy firing from Ih. Krlft.h .um. the third and fourth irml .."In attack yM.rd.y from fmbrml Klh to .ha fr?l hed y thm French. At the Mm. tun. lb. Canadian and Kn.ll.h JroS "cr.Bh" b.rr launch! . powerful attack ..tending Mm. m';n.V0.Crntriudd.n.r -prang I... action. Th. CanaeUana had hard coins at on. plac. Juet north of Cambral, but with groat gallantry w'm .ft.r annihilating th. Germane who trim to bar their way. from thai-, on th. re.lat.nce weakened and the Canadians, with the Knglish, hur- rurd eastward, srnotharlng th. .usual mn of Oerman mac h In. gunnart as they w.nt on. Cui4iu sod Brltlon troop, mot In th. center of Cunbral, which was entered en-tered from both north and south; and quickly mopped up. Many Germans had escaped, but many hundr.ua who - had been hald there to launch a emin-i tor attack war. .Ith.r killed or cap. tured. Horn. of th. .n.my troopa ara Mill In deep cellar., two stortea underground, under-ground, and In th. tunnala tha dormant dor-mant dug during thalr occupation of th. city. Th... ara bain routed now and ent back to th. cages. many fires fail. Although many flrea war. atartad by tha Oermane, th. town waa found oot In ho a. badly dama.ad aa had boon feared. Tha wild buildings withstood th. ftam. wall. - It wa. qulta evident, however, that It wa. no fault of tha Hermans that tha city had not been rtied. Houth of th. city th. third and fourth arm la. rapidly overcame enemy opposition. oppo-sition. HUNI QUICKLY RETREAT. Th. Hermans started fleeing aoon aftar th. attack began, for thoy re-allied re-allied th.y war. fighting a bat t la In which thoy could hop. for no succses. Tha front Un. for tw.nty mllaa bs-gaa bs-gaa marina rapidly eastward. Than ram. ro porta from airplanes, with which th. aky waa literally crowded, that Wambal had been taken. Hoon th. eaptur. of Hal-court waa reported. Krom than on tiding, ram. In rapid succession of villas., fall Ins before tha allied ad vane. Helvtgny, Caullery, Llgny. Montlgny and Marota war. quickly reached and passed and aoon th. allleo w ere doe-tns doe-tns la on Caudry and Hertry. At th. aam. lima from th. north It waa reported that Keoaudoeuvres, eaat of OambraL had been taken and that Inchy waa bains approached. REACH OPEN COUNTRY. Th. Cambral -La Cateaa road waa rroaaed and then th. railway between He. guentln and Brrtry wa. cut. He-bonrotirt He-bonrotirt waa then In elsht and Fon- I tain. Notre Dame, farther' aouth. had keen reached by th. Kronen. By that Uua k was clear tb. enemy waa badly aniaahed and that tha Brltlah and Americana atood on th. threahold of tha wide open country. CAVALRY AND TANKS. It waa ahout that tlma that the cavalry, cav-alry, which had bean waiting, poured through tha wide breach In th. now shattered lllndenburg ayatem and atrenmed out Into lb. country beyond. Kaat "whippet" tanka and nrmoreid cars alao crashed forward and cam. Into action. They performed e-xtremely valuable aervlcea In puraulns th. fleeing flee-ing Urniwni. killing many and rounding round-ing up a large number or prutonera. H aniaahed down atrpng polnta held by rear guards, who bad bean.wnltins for the cavalry, knowlns that It had come throuKh th. Iln.. GREAT RETREAT LOOMS. Cavalry force, ara now apparently well east of the towna reported captured. cap-tured. Th. alllea. having thua broken through, tha Germans north and aouth for many mllea ar. endnngered, for their lines are holng turned. Ketreata on even a broader seal than that now In prngreas my lie expected. TOMMIES ON PARADE. ' Officers directing the attack were distinctly satisfied a. the news came bark In reports from airplane, and by runners, hut finally one ram. bark that showed better than anything .la. how completely the enemy had been defeated. de-feated. Thla waa a report from an air patrol that Brltlah Infantry had been aeen marching a. If on parade In a column of fours Into and through the town of Hertry. The men wer. swinging swing-ing along entirely unmolested by the enemy. FOE DISORGANIZED. Another patrol brought word of the Germans fleeing In th. great eat disorder dis-order aa far east aa Cateau. Knemy troop, and transport, wore .trHmlng along the roada and over th. field., for with the Brltlah cavalry galloping over tha country and with whippet" tanks and armored car. working. they realised that It waa extremely dan-gornua dan-gornua for them to tarry anywhere. Such a thing aa troop, who have just attacked marohlng through a town l000 yards from th. plac. wher. they started is a thing thai has not happened hap-pened In thla war for a long time. Such a thing could only happen now. wh.n th. enemy I. d.featd. dlsorgan-ted dlsorgan-ted and disheartened ami running for hla very existence. Th. troop, at Brrtry Brr-try did not tarry there, but kept right on marching. LOOK FOR PLACE TO STOP. Where th. O.rmana will atop la, of course, Impoeelbl. to tell. It 1. known that they have been working on a Iln. running generally bark of Le Cateau, but prisoners My that thla Iln. la In embryo condition and cannot offer much protection. Kven If It did tha Hr.tlah would not bav. much trouble In amaahlng It, considering their overwhelming over-whelming preponderance of guna. munitions mu-nitions and men. British cannon had been on the move eastward all day long. In many oaaea battarlea would gallop over th. rolling plains of Arlola. Th.y would .top, wheel about and fir. for awhile, then dash on and repeat, th. performanc. KEEP THEM RUNNING. There Is no Intention to let the Herman, Her-man, get a ohanoe to regain their hreath and organise their emaahed forcea. Brltlah forced ar. advancing eastward east-ward astride th. road from Cambral to L. Cateau, and .vary hour has aeen them further east. Th. L-ecaut canal north of Cambral has been passed virtually vir-tually alons Its entlr. lencth. It has been left far behind. BRITISH ARE CONFIDENT. The Brltlah ar. absolutely confident they can breuk down any line the ller-mana ller-mana may place In front of them. In the flshtlna south of Cambral they har. cleared the enemy from th. last line of the Hlndenburs ayatem. which In thla locality was extraordinarily strens. Trenches protected by a belt of wire fifty ynrds deep, In which there were numerous concrete pilt boxes, were crnnr"nn obstacles. The Hrltleh broke through after smaahiiK down lh. wire, repulaed counter attarka and then awept clown In tha rrr of the Iln. and wlied out strong German garrisons. Th. around in thla locality la aoaked with Uernrnn blood and. covered with Uermnn dead CIVILIANS RESCUED. Many trench civilian, have been reacued from th. town, that ha v. been recaptured, five hundred wer. brought back to freedom In on. town alone. It waa aoon after tha German a broke and ran that fires besan to break out In th. whole district behind them and the ground rocked with terrific explosions explo-sions as ammunition which they had had no tlma to save waa dentroyed. Kverythlng rnmhuattble In the area around Caudry. Inchy, Te Cateau. hit-Benin. hit-Benin. Ht. Mouptet, Vaui-Andlany on.l Holla In was fired and .Inc. then towna and farma well to th. eastward have etartad burning. EXPLOSIONS EVERYWHERE. Kven this apparently did not aatlsfy the enemy, who seems to apread hi. carnival of destruction hth nurth and south. More than ever It la evident that he Intend, to lay th. country in altaolule waste. Airmen hive reported "explosion ar. occurring all over, one plitee after another." Latest reports My that tha advance continues rapidly. |
