BATHE ON 30-MILE FRONT EAST OF CAMBRAI

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 244, 12 October 1918, Page 5

BATHE ON 30-MILE FRONT EAST OF CAMBRAI

GERMANS EVACUATING ST. GOBAIN AND CHEMIN DES DAMES pr.v.TKS. JTOW WORTH OF FOREST OF ARGONJTE. • I 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, October 11. '£. great batflc is raging on a front of thirty miles east of Cambrai, and little enemy resistance is being met. The Germane have begun the evacuation of the Forest of St. Gobain, the great wooded r masaif. eastward of the fortress of Laon. They are also evacuating the Chemin dcs Dames region northward of Jhe Aisne. The Allies lave entered Grand Pre, on the Rirer Aisne, on the northern of the Forest of Argonne.—(A. and K.Z. Cable.)

CROSSED NORTHWARDS OF LE CATEAU.

j[Rcce;ved 10.10 a.m.)

. ' LONDON, October 11. Douglas Haig reports:—l*ast evening the Americans completed the tepfcuro of Vanx-Andigny, six miles southward, and St. Souplet, four miles fine south of Le Cateau.

•Tie British crossed the Rover Selle northwards of Le Cateau and reached Bre outskirts of St. Vaast, seven miles east of Cambrai, and St. Aubert, two priles.-inrtber JJorth. —{High Commissioner's Cable.)

ENEMY REARGUARDS FAIL TO DELAY

Received 10.45 a.m.) ' " LONDON, October 11. Sir Douglas Haig reports:—Wβ resumed the advance at dawn on the, »We battleiront and are rapidly progressing at, all points, deepite efforts of ttie enemy's rearguards to hold us up. We are approaching the large woode eastward of Bohain and have entered Vaux Audigny, northward of that place. We reached the general line of the Selle River from St. Souplet to the neighbourhood of Solesmes, and Captured Le Cateau. Weatwaj-de of Solesmoa jse captured Aveanes, Eieux, and Thun St. Martin. Westward of tho Scheldt Canal we have taken Etrun. In the towns and villages captured to-day It-number of civilians were found, including 2500 in Caudry. South-eastward Ipt Lens "we made further progress and captured Rouvroy. Sir Douglas Haig's aviation report states that low-fliers with bombs and fcnachine-gnn fire caused destruction and confusion 'in the columns of the Retreating enemy. We bombed the railway junction at Mons, Valenciennes land Lille, securing direct hits. Nine British machines are missing. Night Sying is impossible. The Press Bureau reports that the Independent Air Force on Wednesday nSgfct heavily attacked railwaye at Mezieres, Metz-Sablon, and Thjonville, and the aerodromes at Freacaty and Morhangu. Good results were observed at fiezieres, and five direct hits were obtained on the Metz-Sablons railway, Bod a fire was caused, two direct hite were obtained on the Thionville railway, *nd four on the Karlsruhe Works. A total of 22A tons of bombs was dropped. We again heavily attacked Metz-Sablons to-day, five direct hits being obtained j(A. and N.Z. and Eeuter.)