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Show Americans Lead Against l Germans East of I the Selk I BRAVE ENGINEERS More Cannon Brought Up Near Bruges and - Enemy Suffers. WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES EAST DF CAMBRAI, Friday, Oct, 18. (By the Associated Press) Tanks manned by Americans, trained in England led the assault against the German, forces on the eastern side of the Selle river yesterday. They were faced by German Ger-man divisions which put up a hard fight According to inst reports the Americans aro gaining ground against , the desperate resistance of the enemy. At one point the Germans delivered j a counter-attack and momentarily gained ground but the tanks passed over and beyond tho high ground where the Germans were making their stand and quickly drove the enemy out of his trenches. American engineers, working under heavy machine gun fire, placed bridges bridg-es across the river and then the American and British infantry swept across. The tanks helped to, keep i down the enemy fire until the cngi- , ncers had finished their work and J then went over with the infantry. (Continued on Page 4) Tanks Lead Fight (Continued from Page 1) Germans Blow Up Bridges WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN BELGIUM, Friday, Oct. IS. -(By the Associated Press) The Germans blew up the bridges leading into Bruges and left strong rear guards there but these forces were sacrificed by the enemy while the main body of his troops and those near the coast hastened has-tened to escape. Today has been fine and clear and the Belgian airmen have worked great havoc with bombs and bullets among the enemy forces fleeing flee-ing through the gap between Bruges and the Dutch frontier. More Cannon Brought Up More cannon have been brought up and all lasl night and today they have been pumping shells into the bottle iicuu wuicu me (jermans are retreating. From the amount of explosive ex-plosive projectiles, large and small, dropped on the Germans their losses must bo tremendous. In addition, the French cavalry has taken its toll. Germans Paying High Price The German army is paying.-! high price for its attempt to retain its hold on the coveted coast of Belgium. Today's To-day's reports include masses of captured cap-tured documents which have fallen into the hands of the Allies. Count von Waldersee of the Fifty-ninth Fifty-ninth Reserve Infantry regiment wrote that he knew his regiment was going to bo attacked and warned his men that the attack must be broken. Incidentally In-cidentally the assault referred to resulted re-sulted in the 'smashing of that regiment. regi-ment. This officer ordered all auxiliary services to the assistance of the infan try In the line "which needs all the support Imaginable." , German Officer Admits Weakness "The enemy's great successes have strengthened his consciousness of superiority," su-periority," thtsf comnlander very frankly frank-ly said. "The strength and condition of our troops cannot bo unknown to him and there Is no doubt that he possesses the means to overcome the difficulties which confront him." It would appear from many documents docu-ments that the Gorman army knows It has lost tho war and is bluo over the fact, German soldiers on the bat tle front have shown undue consideration considera-tion for civilians. In many of the towns whero tho Allied Al-lied troops have swept past celebrations celebra-tions over their deliverance from the Germans wore carried on all day today by the people. The people have become be-come so demonstrative in many places that they have interfered slightly with the work of the soldiers. i Dandies Run For Lives It has been learned from a resident of Courtrai that Gorman cavalry officers of-ficers were giving a ball there celebrating cele-brating the return of peace on tho j night the city waB taken. At the mid -1 die of tho dance British infantry which j had broken through the defenses to the west stormed into tho town and the Gorman cavalry dandles had to run for their live3. In the neighborhood of Turcoing and Roubaix more than 100,000 civilians have been liberated. |