British in Cambrai Suburbs.
Haig Again Smashes Hindenburg Line. Fensational Belgian Drive Threatens Vital Junction. Foch's Grand Effort for Decisive Victory. Received This Day, 9.10 a.m. NEW YORK, September 30. . The British have captured the northern suburbs of Cambrai. Haig has smashed the Hindenburg line to a • depth of two miles on a, front of eight miles. The British and Australians in the face o± the heaviest fighting advanced in the neighbourhood of Gonnelieu, m the St. Quentin sector, and took 4000 prisoners. . The United Press correspondent learns unofficially that the enemy is apparently retiring from the Chemin des Dames. [The French have gained a. footing on the western end of this great natural fortressv which protects Laon from the south, and is now almost at the apex of the huge salient which Foch is pinching on the one side in the and the other side with the Belgian and Cambrai advances] • " «. The Serbians east of Veles have cut off, the retreating Bulgarian army. The British withdrew from Arlena. The French have reached the Oise-Aisne Canal. , . , .. The Anglo-Belgians have gam 3d tight miles and are threatening tl;e. Great. Belgian Railway Junction of Koulers. .The Belgians have captured 300 guns. The Bulgarian armistice was signed„on Sunday nigh*. . PARIS, September 30. Matin asserts that Fooh's plan is to grip the . enemy where.lie stands and smash him in irretrievable defeat.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 October 1918, Page 4
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