Western Front
The so-called
Battles of the Hindenburg Line: Battle of Canal du Nord (27 September - 1 October 1918) The British First Army was to cross the canal continuing the advance following on from the Battle of the Drocourt-Quéant Line and advance towards Cambrai. This sector extended from Sauchy l'Estrees to Gouzeaucourt. So-called Hindenburg Line pierced. Beaucamp, Graincourt, etc., taken; Canadians capture Bourlon Wood. 10,000 PoWs and 200 guns claimed. Rupprecht writes that peace must be made in winter. US 106th Regiment (27th Division) loses 1,540 of 2,000 men attacking three outposts of Siegfried Line (actual name of “Hindenburg Line”).
Canadian soldiers with captured Germans watch the fighting on the Canal du Nord:
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Meuse-Argonne Offensive: Battle of Champagne and Argonne (see October 15th): Further Franco-American advance between Reims and Verdun, converging move on the Argonne. Franco-American advance slows: Montfaucon behind Michel Stellung and Varennes (Crown Prince’s 1916 Verdun observation point) captured, 3,000 prisoners claimed.
Reported from Christiana that British flag hoisted over (destroyed) German property at Spitsbergen.
Western Front, Air: 57 RAF squadrons with 1.058 aircraft support BEF assault; 6 fighter squdrons make low-lying attacks using 70t bombs and 26,000 MG rounds; 3 German airfields attacked. Germans claim 44 Allied aircraft for loss of 10. Handley Pages drop 6t bombs on Busigny rail junction (night September 27-28).
American artillery moves up to the front at dawn near Mœuvre for the Arras and Cambrai campaign:
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British, Canadian, and New Zealand troops attack German positions on the Canal du Nord. British infantry moving up during the battle: © IWM (Q 9326):
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Eastern Front
North Russia: Allied Archangel advance blocked by far larger Red force at Nizhne-Toimski after 60-mile push, retreat to Borok and dig in until September 28.
Southern Russia: Josef Stalin signals Leon Trotsky for 30,000 rifles, 150 MGs and 50 guns or else retirement east of Volga.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Trans-Jordan: Arab Army cuts in at Sheikh Saad, claims 2,000 PoWs and wipes out 2,000 Turks in revenge for Tafas village massacre.
Palestine: Australian Mounted Division begins ride for Damascus by crossing Jordan.
Political, etc
United States: Broadway actresses from the “Fiddlers Three” perform for American sailors while sitting on a gun of the USS Charleston:
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