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Show THEATRES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS OF UTAH CLOSE ON ACCOUNT OF "FLU,: un DRIVEN TQ iiim Forced From Cambrai, Foe t Seems to ' Have Lost Hindenburg Line South to St. Quentin ' By Assoclstsd Press. - FORCED from Cambrai, one of . . the atroug pillars of the Hin-depburg Hin-depburg aysjtera, . the German today are being driven back towards hfr French frontier under the heavy onslaughts of the Third and Fourth British armies, aided by Amer-loan Amer-loan Jroops. Apparently ttia Germans now hve loat the Hindenburg line on the front from Cambrai to St. Quentin. Field . Marshal Haig resumed his attack again this1 morning -and reports that rapid progress le being made on a front of ' more than thirty miles from northeast ,e of Cambrai to east of St. Quentin. As the Germans' defense eystem in the. center falls to (he British and Americans, the French and Americans on the southern wall from Rheims to east of the Meuse are smashing their way northward, threatening the Important Im-portant junctions of the railways running run-ning eastward from the broken St. Quentin-Cambral line. - MUST GO TO FRONTIER. East of the Hindenburg line In the Bt. Quentin-Cambral area the Germans are reported to have no prepared defenses de-fenses until a line Immediately east of the frontier le reached. Fast of this line, which would run thrqugh Valenciennes, Valen-ciennes, the Germans have the line of . the Mouse. In capturing Cambrai and breaking through the German defenses to the south, the British and Americans took ' more than (000 prisoners and e large ! quantity of guns. Near Premont the : Americans captured an entire German artillery position of three batteries. . RAILWAYS IN DANGER. Before the advancing Anglo-American line lie the railway Junctions of' l.e Cateau, Bohain, Guise and Gaudry. I If the north and south railwaya are' cut, German communication between J the Laon massif and the Lille salient will be lost. ' Field Marshal Hslg has driven Into the German lines a gAgantle salient I based on Cambrel. Fven If It does not ! grow Isrger, this salient Is a greet j menace to the Lille and Laon poeitlnna. i It would seem within the poasibilitles of the next few days that the Germans will withdraw from the Laon massif, as the French and Amertrsns on the ' east and the British and Americans on : the north rapidly are outflanking It. i GERMANS RESISTING. j German resistance is stiffening sinng i the front eaat of Hheims. but not auf- I ficlent to stop the forward movement J of Generals Uouraud and Berthelot. j The Franco-American poetttona in ; Champagne and the Argonne to the Meuae have been Improved by the successful suc-cessful French and American thrust eaat of the. Meuae. The advance there freea the troops west of the Meuse from the menace of German artillery north of Verdun. In' the operations on these sectors Tueeday the American troops -y- took 3n00 prisonera and .a numher of guns. Along the Arnes the French yes-lexmajr yes-lexmajr took (0' prisoners. |