SIR DOUGLAS HAHG'S REPORT

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1918, Page 7

SIR DOUGLAS HAHG'S REPORT

MARCbING AND OTHER VILLAGES CAPTURED

iJßeceived September 30,' 10.30 a;m.)

„ . :.. ■;.•.■■■/ ' . 'y.: . : ■-■" ": LONDON,'2BiIi Septenib'ev. Sir Douglas Haig, reports : The op&ratipns on the Gambnu.b&ttlefront Have progressed favourably. . On the right the Fifth and Forty-second Diyisibiia had heavy fighting last night about Beau Camp ridge, where the enemy counterattacked strongly in the morning. They overcame Hie enemy resistance-ih this Ideality,, and pressed forward two miles beypnd,:Capturing;the highly organised defences, called the Highlands, and the-, Wel&li 'i'idges. ; Later the success, extended south, atid we captured Gbuzeaucourt. The Sixty-second Yofkehiro Division captured Marcoiug, and progressed : solith-eart of that place. The Fifth Battalion (Duke of Wellington's) forced the crossings oF the Canal dd l'Eseault, at Marcoing, and established itself in the German defences oft the east bank north of MaKoing. The Sec&nd ovicl Flfty-eeVenth Lancashire Division ekared ;ths-Avett bank 01 the canal as far north a» L& FoH« .Wood, jnd.efiptured

Noyelle-sui-'Escault, Cantaing, and NotreDame. The Xancashires are progressing east of Fontaine Notre Dame, co-operating -with the Canadians north of the Bapaume-Cambrai road. Here the enemy resisted strongly, and lost heavily in killed and prisoner's. "• ,'.'. •■■:. :i : . ' \ . ' . ■'North of the Arras-Cambrai road the-Canadians-and English-troops are steadily advancing on the east and north. : - -. ; Strong hostile counter-attacks at- Raillencourt 'yesterday evening were beaten, back with loss. To-day the Canadians took possession of fiaillencourt ! and Sailly. and also the trench system runnjng through these villages, and more to the north. The Fifty-sixth London division-entered Palleul. The .priaonera and guns^ captured continue to increase. .. '■'.'/'■'■'■:■ ;•'..■ '.;■'• Our aeroplanes heavily machine-guniied enemy troops and transport at i the. canal crossings and on the roads. \Ve destroyed eight balloons, shot down '•' twenty-three aeroplanes, and drove down twenty, out of control. Nineteen o| ; our machines are.missing. ' •. . . .: . .''.'.:''