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Show Americans and Australians Austral-ians Fight All D.a-' andNighL ' REMANS DESPERATE Jumm -Maqth Near Si. ' Quentin CMd"-j CMd"-j ' With Dead. j- - " fc-TBy .sc-eiateff Press.)'"'''" WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON I THE ST. QUENTIN SECTOR. Monday, Mon-day, Sept. 30. American forces on the (Hindenburg line south of Gouy have j been heavily engaged all day and to-! to-! night the action continues. Australian i units have been co-operating with the Americans. Near tho north and south portals df the tunnel through which the St. Quentin canal runs, tho fight-I fight-I ing has been especially vigorous. It was at this point that the Americans passed over the canal. Thousands of Germans were poured into the strug-; strug-; gle. The St. Quentin canal tunnel runs for more than five miles under a moun-taip. moun-taip. The canal was held by large numbers of Germans on board electrically elec-trically lighted" barges. There are wide tow paths, galleries leading off from each side of the canal and in them the entire garrison had quarters. quar-ters. This section is one of the strongest strong-est parts of the Hindenburg system and the Americans have found positions posi-tions with tunnels, dugouts and galleries galler-ies which require a great deal of mopping mop-ping up. Large numbers of Germans have been killed, but before they wero silenced, si-lenced, the enemy -masses workel their machine guns with tho greatest vigor. Americans Fight All Night. When the Americans swept past the end of the tunnel the Germans remained re-mained in hiding until the Americans got a little way past a.nd then they surged up and plunged into the fight. They wore engaged first by the Americans Ameri-cans nnd then by the Australians The tunnel mouth was choked with dead. This action began late last evening eve-ning nnd continued until 8 o'clock this morning with unabated intensity. ' Americans are now holding trenches j in the Hindenburg line from which tho Germans have tried to force them. uiverywnere more nas been ngnting of the hardest character. . Lines Held At All Cost. Reports just received that north of IBellicourt there was heavy fighting 1 jand the Americans in spite of great I pressure against them, have held thofr ! i positions in not a few cases to the last I , man. They fell fighting rather than j give up a single inch of ground to the desperately fighting Germans -who , seemed to have been hurled against them regardless of the cost, As a. re-;sult re-;sult of the fighting up to this evening the Americans are holding lines forming form-ing a salient which bulges slightly westward between Gouy and Joncourt, but this, at last reports, was being gradually eliminated. British Commend American General. The general in command of one of tho American divisions was warmly commenced by British officers for tho manner in which he managed to protect pro-tect tho flank between his command and another division northward. Everywhere along the British front' the battle was progressing under un-1 favorable weather conditions. The British movement appeared to bo pivoted piv-oted on Joncourt. Wintry winds and rains, sweeping in from the North sea, drenched the fighting armies and chilled them to the bone. On tho important Flanders battlefield battle-field the Belgians and British not only gained further ground but beat, down j completely the desperate counlcr-at-! tacks of the Germans who are staiving j to eliminate the allied. mchacG to the I ' territory they hold between Roulers and Ostend. ! . - i German Reseryee-Rushed In. LONDON, Oct. I. German reserves I are being rushed into the battle be-i be-i twesn the Argonne forest and the j -ieuse river, where the Americans are engaged, according to a telegram from I tho Mail's correspondent on that front, writing on Monday afternoon. A new ! German division hus been identified land the' enemy is offering the fiercest (resistance. . , iTAt thnfoiiVenr the telegram was j written the Americana were fighting j what almost resembled a pitched bat-j bat-j tie amid the ravines, woods and : heights aion& lhat sector. Every possible resource is being (used by the enemy to prevent, or at j least delay, 'the American advance. ! The Americans are fighting hard, how-j how-j ever, and the enemy's efforts have I availed him little indeed. American airmen continued their fine work not-i not-i withstanding the bad weather. |