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Show CANADIANS AND ENGLISH GOING Cut Into Drocourt-Queant Line Three Miles and Still Advancing. . WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, Sept 2. (By the Associated Press.) 4 p. m. The British have pierced the Drocourt-Queant line. In a fierce battle which has been raging since dawn and which will probably prove to be one of the most Important of the war, Canadian and English troops at last reports had at one point driven in about five kilometers or a lltttle more than three miles and were still going. The fighting was as furious as any since the war began and increased in intensity as tho British battled their way forward, meeting the ever-growing resistance of the enemy, who had put in every available man and was rushing up reserves at tho rear. Thousands Thou-sands of prisoners have been captured; captur-ed; the roads to the British rear are literally Jammed with them. There has been fierce fighting in. Dury, which was taken by the British and Mount Dury, which tho Germans held in great strength, was stormed. The British wont on after killing enormous enor-mous numbers of the enemy. The Germans Ger-mans died fighting here as elsewhere. Cagnicourt wood and Cagnicourt have been captured and Rois' tie Bouchc, to the southeast, is reported also to have been occuppied. Home and Byng Open Offensive AVITH the BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE. Sept. 2. (Reuter's) The troops of General Home and General Byng began today's offensive southeast south-east of Arras and by 7:30 o'clock this morning they had completely reached the Drocourt-Queant switch line. Two hours later, it was rumored that groups of British motor machine gunners gun-ners had been seen on tho bank of. tne canai uu xvora, nearly live miles east of the nearest point on the Dro-court Dro-court line. These were only highly mobile patrols, pushing on to try to seize the bridgeheads. By today's success the British struck the Germans one of the most smashing smash-ing and strategically serious blows they ever had received in a single day's fighting. The Germans are reported re-ported to have had eight divisions standing to meet the blow. Among the prisoners taken are men who had been hurriedly thrown in the line from all sorts of units. Heavy Fighting In Bulssy There has been heavy fighting in Bulssy, northeast of Queant. Large numbers of prisoners have been captured cap-tured and progress made aginst the northern end of the Queant-Drocourt line. During the night there was heavy fighting around the British positions which were almost jammed up against the great German defense system. Piles of dead Germans was one of the results. During one enemy attack a sergeant with a machine gun killed sixty Germans who tried to rush him. British Crash Barrage It was soon after- o'clock In the morning that' the massed British broke loose with a roar that was heard for miles in a crash barrage The whole sky seemed ablaze as thousands of British shells poured Into the German Ger-man wire and lines. When the barrage raised the Canadians Canad-ians and English swarmed over the top. Just behind them were numerous numer-ous tanks of all sizes. They had boon over only a moment when the enemy opened with a counter-barrage which is said to have been by far the strong- j est he has put down since the British j offensive began. The instant the British appeared the' Germans in many cases jumped out of the trenches and held their hands high above their heads. In some cases cas-es the British met a hail of machine gun bullets. They pushed on. Quickly Quick-ly the first line was overcome. From all along the line came reports re-ports that the Germans were panic-stricken panic-stricken and many of them were found cowering in holes, screaming with fright. By 7:30 the British had passed the German front and support lines. Then the motor machine guns dashed out onto, the good roads at the German rear. Tanks also managed to get through and they. are working far In advance of the infantry. Some of the fast motor machine guns are reported by the airplanes to have made their way along the Canal du Nord on the roads between Douai and Marquoin, whllo others are reported re-ported to be holding the bridgeheads against large numbers of German re-servos, re-servos, who certainly are coming up In the rear. Along the Arras-Cambrai road the British have made good progress and Villers Lez Cagnicourt, which was protected by special belts of wire and a powerful trench system, was the scene of desperate fighting. Both Villers Les Cagnicourt and Cagnicourt are in British hands and the British have carried the battle considerably to the east of this. GERMANS FIGHT FURIOUSLY. (By the Associated Press.) WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, Sept, 2. Where the Arras-Cambrai Arras-Cambrai highway crossed the Vlllers-Lez-Cagnicourt-Saudemont road, as -well as all through the district, the Germans wore in great strength. The cross roads are only nine and a half miles from Cambrai and their defense is of the utmost importance to the enemy. Reports from Dury show the fighting fight-ing was desperate. The Germans were massed and about to deliver an assault as-sault against the British positions |