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Show ENGLAND QUIET OVERJIfllY All of Thrilling Report Not Yet Made Public by British Authorities. CAVALRY GOING AHEAD Extent of Advance Through Famous Hindenburg Line, Is Still Unknown. LONDON, Nov. 28. Thus far England Eng-land has taken quietly Field Marshal Haig's big victory in France. This morning, despite the big headlines and eulogistic articles in the newspapers news-papers and the feelings of quiet exultation exulta-tion evidenced in private, the public went about its business as usual!. Not an extra flag was flying and the bells have not yet aroused the people to a realization of what their armies have done in France. It is generally known that all has not been told of the extent of the victory vic-tory in France, which is being extended ex-tended hour by hour. The peoplo wore thrilled this morning when they wero permitted to know for the first time that the cavalry had been in action, ac-tion, not only in clearing the battlo field, as It had dono on several occasions occa-sions during tho past year, but in actually charging artillery and infantry' and In widening the breach in tho German Ger-man line, long acclaimed as "impregnable." "impreg-nable." How far the cavalry has gone Is not known, but one correspondent at the front says that early yesterday morning morn-ing "the cavalry was still pouring over the furthest hill, a good six miles from the cracked line," while it is also stated by correspondents that the British Brit-ish lines swings much farther north than Graincourt, behind the broken wing of the Hindenburg line. If tho latter be true tho retreat of the Germans Ger-mans entrenched between- the Ba-paume-Cambrai road and the Scarpe river is seriously threatened. Review of War Situation. Triumphant in their stroke against the Hindenburg line, British troops are pushing on toward Cambrai and the main links in the German supply system are now less than three miles nwnv In Iwn Hnva tlio Rrlfich hnvo gained almost as much ground as in the first four months of the battle of the Somme. As it was unlike any previous operation oper-ation on the western front, so was tho success of General Byng's smash. Without artillery preparation and with only tanks to cut the wire entanglements, entangle-ments, British infantry tore such holes in the German defenses that British cavalry is now taking part in the drive toward Cambrai and the Belgian border bor-der beyond. While the British attacked on a front of thirty-two miles between St. Quentin and the' Scarpe, their main effort was on a fifteen-mile front west and southwest of Cambrai, where an advance of more than five miles has been made. At Cantalng and Noyelles the British are within three miles of Cambrai and on the south they are at Crevecouer, four miles away. The Scheldt canal has been gained as have towns on the Scheldt or L'Escaut river, whose valley extends northeast through Belgium to Antwerp. In England the victory of General Byng is balled as the greatest on the western front and it is looked upon as the forerunner of still greater achievements achieve-ments against the supposedly impregnable impreg-nable Hindenburg line. What effect the British drive will have on the Austro-German invasion of Italy Is not yet apparent, but the Italians Ital-ians are holding tenaciously to their positions and the invaders have not been able to make a marked gain in two days. French troops have carried out a successful attack on a front of two-thirds two-thirds of a mile between Craonne and Berry-au-Bac. German defenses were captured and 175 prisoners fell into French hands. French Troops Successful. In Palestine, General Allenby's force is within five miles of Jerusalem on the northwest and six miles on the west. It is not yet clear whether the Turks intend to defend Jerusalem, but if they should do so, tho defending force seemingly is in great danger of being cut off from the north and northwest. |
