BREAKING OF HINDENBURG LINE.

FRENCH CUT OFF ST. QUENTIN

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, Oct. 2. The United Pr-'S" reports: The Hindenburg syste.ii lias become a sieve and so-jn will be a memory and open warfare on a scale similar to the first invasion will be made possible. The Britisli ninth corps, co-operating with the Australians on the light, smashed the German resistance along the main line and traversed the supporting trench system, called the Beaurevoir line, taking Beaurevoir, Wjjancjoiirt, iand Sequehart. This enabled the French to advance straight eastward' above St. Quontin, cutting off tin latter and compelling its evacuation. The French found it necessaiy to pierce the Hindenburg system only on n narrow front, ihp Germans getting o\it of the trenches ■which form a semi-circle in front of tho city.