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Show CAMBRAI NOW k ' SMOKING RUIN France Can Never Forget or Forgive Enemy Destroying and Offering Peace at ( Same Time. WITH THE CANADIAN FORCES IN FRANCE, Wednesday, "Oct 0. (By the Canadian Press.) Cambral tonight to-night is a smoking ruin. The Germans have probably never perpetrated a. more ruthless nor more premeditated vandalism than this destruction of Cambrai. "France can nevcj forgot nor forgive for-give this," l'qjnarked a French ofTlcer. "Torch in hand, the enemy comes offering of-fering us poace." When tho Canadians entered Cambrai Cam-brai tho great public square of the Place d'Armes was virtually intact Now it Is a mass of ruins. The explosions explo-sions began at 9 o'clock and have continued con-tinued ever since. All day, in even part of the town, there were explosions of incendiary bombs with time fuses attached and these were followed immediately im-mediately by outbursts-of fire. In one short street a dozen houses simultaneously simultan-eously burst into (lames. The town hall, the bishop's palace and other buildings were blown to pieces. The cathedral stands, but only with its juined chancell. Fire Is lapping lap-ping the base of the great belfry tower. tow-er. As the hours went by the universal character of. the holocaust developed. The sun was obscured partly and it seemed like a fiery 'ball in the smoko and thick dust of falling walls. The Canadian engineers sought to pen In the conflagation by dynamiting the buildings, but the flames broke out at the backs of tho soldiers. There remains in the citv .Father Thlez. a priest of the church of SL Druon. Two days ago he was ordered by the Germans to leave the city. Ho refused because he had to attend to a dying woman. The Germans threatened threaten-ed to shoot him, but he persevered and today ho Is caring for civilians who had hidden for ten days in the cellars. Stiffcst Kind of Fighting. WITH THE ANGLO-AMERICAN FORCES SOUTHEAST OF CAMBRAI. Oct. 10. Noon. (By the Associated i Press.) Between Fresnoy and Bobaln where German machine gunners have concentrated in force there was the stiffest kind of fighting today. British . tanks helped to clear the machine gun , nests. I Allied troops are in force a thous-land thous-land yards south of the LeCateau road land have captured the towns of Es-,toumal Es-,toumal and Ignial les Frlsetles on the highway. The British are still reported report-ed to be progressing. Six pontoon bridges, and two infantry bridges over 1 the Scheldt river have been blown up by the enemy. : British cavalry east of Cambrai ( seems to be working forward. Late last night they signalled from Beaumont ' and they were said to be making good progress. - 1 i This morning the British were well 1 to the east of Hennechy and Troisvil- ler. Northeast of Cambral. additional j important gains have been made. Tho j Germans in this section are offering hard opposition with their rear guards. But this may break at any time as it did to the southeast of Cambrai. There are signs that the Germans are preparing for a general retreat as they must do now that such wide gains have been made to the southeast south-east of Cambrai and cavalry and patrols pa-trols are working far forward. Airplanes report increased confusion confu-sion on tho roads to the east and northeast of LeCateau. The British guns have again been moved up and are pounding the fleeing Germans heavily. Low flying British airplanes are out in'reat numbers despite the bad flying weather, bombing and machine ma-chine gunning bodies of troops and fleeing transports.They are doing tremendous tre-mendous .damage to the terrified Germans. Ger-mans. The drive, in addition to menacing the Germans north of CambraJ, is rapidly rap-idly leaving their entire positions southeast of the river Suippc in a pocket. If tho British go much further oast and the French and Americans drive up the Germans undoubtedly will be obliged to evacuate all this vast stretch of territory. Situation on Archangel Front. LONDON, Oct. 10. The war office tonight issued J.he following official communication from the Archangel front in north Russia: "On October 6 the enemy made a strong counter-attack both by river and hy land on the allied position at Soletskaya, 170 miles from Archangel, on the riv,er Dvina. The attack was beaten off and the enemy was driven up the rivor leaving behind two machine ma-chine guns and fifty men killed. "In tho Szenkusk region which lies between Archangel, the Vologda railway rail-way and tho Dvina, tho enemy is still retiring, followed by a mixed force of Americans and Russians. In that region re-gion the enemy has been trying to deceive tho allied forces by wearing white sleeve bands which are the mark of the white guards. "On the Murmansk front the allied troops operating fxom Kandalaska on the White sea a hundred miles south of Murmansk, have driven invading patrols back across the Finnish frontier fron-tier and havo cleared northern Karelia Kare-lia of the enomy." 00 If a man could get credit for his good Intentions money would be no objet |