CAPTURE OF LENS AND QUEANT
10,000 PRISONEKS AND MORE UNCOUNTED GENERAL ADVANCE IN SIBERIA ■ / . ■ " BRITISH SUCCESS IN THE BALKANS ' « Another round of victorious progress is recorded in the war dispatches to-day. Lens' has been evacuated, but there is no official report of its occupation by tho Allies. Queant also has been captured. Everywhere along the line the ceaseless, irresistible pressure of the 'Allied weight of men-and metal is demonstrated, in the movement eastward, Germanywards, of'the German battleline. From Drocourt to Queant and thence south t<PPeronne is practically a perpendicular line, whore previously a great bulge to the west menaoed Paris, 'Amiens, and the Channel ports. The same procoss is developing in the Lys salient. Ten thousand prisoners were counted in Monday's "bag"; Tuesday's has not yet been counted. A general advance by the Japanese division in' Siberia has begun. The British on the Vardar, in the Balkans, have given tho Bulgars a severe gruelling. ' "
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 298, 5 September 1918, Page 5
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154CAPTURE OF LENS AND QUEANT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 298, 5 September 1918, Page 5
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