Show JG SEPTEMBER 30 I g German Defense Caved Cave in When Yanks an anc Australian T r roo o o p Launch Big g Assault By Lowell M Mellett j jj United Press Staff Correspondent y ITH ITH THE BRITISH VV x L ARMIES IN FRANCES FRANCE S Sept pt 13 30 The The Americans ha hay hair contributed their share to smas ing ingI I the the bugaboo of the wester weste front the front the Hindenburg Hindenburg- lineOn line Une On Ona a front of yards ards ards about fo foi miles miles' they caved in the German d a yesterday making an ble breach and ana penetrating a distan distant equal to the front of their attack Th The opened the way vay for the Australians Australians' shove on still farther I 1 Early today the Yankees had re reo their units and swung sharp to the left threatening a a. greatly if I. creased break in the enemy Ii 11 lir through an enveloping movement The battle yesterday was unusual spectacular The flash of guns ilium the country for miles aroun throughout the night The artille artiller I suddenly ceased at dawn Then Thea the alence s a lence was broken again by the Amer Amerl can can barrage B Behind hind their own shells dropping I Ian Ian ian an even line ahead of them the Amer Arner cans could be seen ov ove the rough brosen brohen ground They ad advanced advanced in yard dashes the barr barra barras doing the same WIRES BLOWN AWAY 1 Five minutes took them into a thic maze of wires though this had bee partially cleared away by instantaneous ous fuse shells shell Six minutes after the barrag started started British British guns fired the shell shei the the Germans put down a counte barrage They succeeded I Bothering the first support companie without cAtchin catching the ru fI firs wave ave A smoke barrage by by- bythe the enem simultaneously hid the whole battle battlefield battlefield battlefield field for several minutes When t I I cleared away vay the Americans were revealed revealed re revealed re re- running steadily ahead The Th British guns then apparently smothered ered the boche artillery for that wa wai the last seen of the enemy barrage J JAt At the left the ie Americans found faun themselves plunging plugging across the Hi Hin I denburg defenses There the work 0 oi I the instant instantaneous fuse shells had bee beet almost complete completo v J Machine gun nests were wiped ou with rifles rifles' and grenades and sam prisoners were sent serit back j AU The Americans on the r right hl were de delayed il de-il by ordinary mach machine ne gun em emplacements placements in front of the main deJ f but they reached the main lin line after atter their comrades Their rush pre pre pre-J vented them completely mopping up UR the ground there leaving considerable work for the Australians following them v With the Americans went a a. larg number of tanks as well as a number of whippets Simultaneous the British attacked on a stretch of the lin line t to the right v I another British unit move moved for orwar slightly in a supporting upp action to t th I left lef The he Americans Americans Americans' struck at a. a poin where General von on Butlers Butler's arm armI arms joins loins with that of or General von dei den dej I Th They y faced facet the fourth Fifty One Hundred Twenty Twenty- I first and One Hundred fifth Eighty-fifth divisions with others in reserve 1 |