The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . THE BEGINNING OF THE END BEFORE CAMBRIA After the Switch or the Drooourt-Qu6ant line was taken, the Hindenburg line proper was soon broken through and Cambrai fell V—336 FOCHS GREAT VICTORIES lages of Villers-le-Cagincourt and Drury. Further north theFourth Division, debouching from Etrepagny, passedthrough Etain and reached the western end of the Senseemarshes at Lecluse. By the night of September 2, whichwas Sedan Day, the victory w^as complete; the D
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . THE BEGINNING OF THE END BEFORE CAMBRIA After the Switch or the Drooourt-Qu6ant line was taken, the Hindenburg line proper was soon broken through and Cambrai fell V—336 FOCHS GREAT VICTORIES lages of Villers-le-Cagincourt and Drury. Further north theFourth Division, debouching from Etrepagny, passedthrough Etain and reached the western end of the Senseemarshes at Lecluse. By the night of September 2, whichwas Sedan Day, the victory w^as complete; the Drocourt-Queant line had been pierced along a twelve-mile front southof the Scarpe, the Germans put to flight, and 10,000 pris-oners captured. The Germans fell back on the Canal duNord, with Homes troops following hard on their © UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD. N. Y. BRITISH OFFICIAL PHOTO. QUEANT ON THE SWITCH PART OF THE HINDENBURG LINE By this victory seemingly was ended the menace of theHindenburg line in the south, which the British were gradu-ally approaching over its entire front. Roads to and St. Quentin had now been thoroughly investedby British and French armies, while north of SoissonsFrench and Americans were in positions of vantage fromwhich to carry out turning movements which would outtiankLaon and the Chemin-des-Dames and Aisne line. Haigsoperation east of Arras had proved once more that lines hadlost the value they had had in strictly positional warfare, 337 ON THE WESTERN FRONT What was a rigid line in 1916 had become in 1918 a death-trap for those who defended it. The British moving eastfrom Arras easily broke the Wotan line, on which they hadbeen held all through 1917, then pushed ahead to the alter-native Queant-Drocourt line, and now had driven throughthat line on a wide front
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