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Show ALLIED OFFENSIVE GAINING STRENGTH AND ! I 0 THE GERMAN RESISTANCE IS WEAKENING 1 1 ALLIED OFFENSIVE GAINING AND HUNS ..L. ARE WEAKENING Sixth Army Joins Chain of Battle With Success Equal to Others Berlin Claims Sixteen Allied Divisions Broke Down Before Cambrai Paris Reports Cambrai, St. Quentin and Le Catelet Practically Taken. I PARIS, Oct. 1. -The allied offensive continues to gain strength and the German resistance is weakening. Yesterday Yes-terday saw another army, that of Gen-oral Gen-oral Bertholot join in the chain of battle bat-tle with a success equal to that achieved achiev-ed by tho other groups. His army attacked at-tacked along tho Vesle river northwest of Rheims. It was on the extreme wing or the battle line that the most important feature of the day's operations wore to be found. Tho remarkable advance of the Belgian left covers the Hank of the second British army and permits it to advance safely to capture the crossings cross-ings of the Lys river at Warneton, Comines. Courtrai and Monin. Tho British already hold two crossings and are approaching a. third. Once the -Lys is cros'scd, General Plummer, his flank protected, can push boldly toward Escaut, between Ouden- J arde and Tournal and complete the envelopment of the Lille-Roubalx-Tourcoing region which oven now is : gravely threatened. - Gouraud's Advance Important. j On the extreme right General Four-aud's Four-aud's advance toward Monthois is important im-portant because that village is only a i mile west of Challerange and the ra.ll- : road which joins that locality to Apre-mont Apre-mont virtually has been cut. Grandpre, through which two German sections L facing the French and American arm- ies on either side of tho Argonno for- est must pas,s. is under an enflladinc; ? firo from French guns. t -As a result the object for which tho ' -Continued on- Page ,4 - ' ' i . i Allied Offensive Gaining and Huns Are Weakening (Continued From Page 1) French and American armies are fighting fight-ing Is made easier for them. On the center the German resistance is desperate, des-perate, and progress is naturally slow, but Cambrai, St. Quentin ami Le j Catelet nre to all intents and purposes uinen. iney nave not Deen occupieu because of mines and traps. Berlin Claims Repulse of Allies. BERLIN. Monday. Sept. 30. Via London, The official statement issued tonight at the war office reads: "Sixteen divisions were led by the enemy in the fighting against Cambrai J and on both sides of the town. In their j effort to breale through our front there strong enemy attacks were repeated eight times north of Cambrai. These attacks broke down before our lines near Sancourt and were broken by successful counter attacks at Tllloy. Admits Enemy Gained Footing, "In the suburbs of Cambrai, at Neu-ville Neu-ville and Cnntimpre, the enemy gained gain-ed a footing. Wo are standing here on the western outskirts of the town behind be-hind the Scheldt river and are repulsing repuls-ing violent enemy attacks which are being renewed. Attack by the enemy on the canal sector north of Marcoing collapsed before our lines. This also fcuijthe result along the Cambrai -MasnlM'es road. "Snnflh of Marcoing the enemy forced forc-ed us back behind the canal sector Mrom Masnleres to Crevecoeur. With equal energy he attacked our front from Gonnelieu to south of Bellong-1 Bellong-1 Use. Between Gonnelieu and BelMcouri we completely drove back frequently repeated enemy assaults. VIllers-Guis-lain, which was lost for a time, was retaken. re-taken. Local breaks In our position u'oro plonvnrl nf tVir rnom' h pnimtor. attack. Divisions fighting heavily on the front near Gonnelieu and Villers-1 Guishlain drove back with their reserve re-serve battalions in a determined counter-attack tho enemy coming against their flank from the direction of Marcoing. Mar-coing. Allies Brought to Standstill. "Between Bellicourt and Bellenglise the enemy thrust forward over the canal. We brought him to a standstill in the evening on the line formed by the northern border of Bellicourt and tho western, border of Joncourt and : Lehaucourt. Regiments north of Gri-i court, which had warded off attacks,' had to withdraw their wing to Lehau-1 court in the evening. ! "In the great successful conclusion of yesterday's heavy lighting troops of every German race took an equal part. The British bought their local successes success-es with very heavy and sanguinary losses. "Armies of the crown prince and General von Gallwitz: The enemy forced his way toward our new linos on the Oise-Aisno canal. We tookj prisoners here in successful foreneld ! fighting. "Between the Sulppe and the Alsne the French continued their bitter attacks at-tacks as did the Americans against the eastern border of the Argonne forost and further oast toward the Meuse. Tho enemy yesterday brought several new divisions into the fight. J "Between Auberlve and Somme-pyi we repulsed often-repeated attaoks and northwest of Somme-py we stop-j ped assaults which were repeated nine! times. j "Further east Manre and Ardeull remained re-mained in the enemy's hands. In the evening after tho repulse of the enemy we stood on the line north of Ardeuil north of Sechault and Bouconville. American Attacks Collapse. "American forces also stormed with especial force against the eastern border bor-der of Argonne wood and agalim our front between the wood and the Meuse Their assault completely collapsed. Un both sides of the Aire valley we took from the enemy Aprcmont and the I wood of Montrebeau and threw the Americans back more than a kilometer. kilo-meter. "We shot down forty-five enemy airplanes yesterday." 1 |