EAST OF AMIENS.

Evening Star, Issue 16779, 6 July 1918, Page 5

EAST OF AMIENS.

Tress Association—By Tclograpb—Copyright Keut-er's Telegrams. LONDON, July 4. Router's correspondent- at British Headquarters, writ in;?* on J edy _4. slates: The morning's operations at. V liters JlroLouiicui woro carried out by the -Australians, asassisted by tanks," with the object oi remedying'an awkward indentation in tho line north-cast- of Villers Lrelmmeux, resulting from tho German drivo of March last, the idling up of which will carry our front in a direct lino through Hamcl to the In addition to Hamel village, wi> captured two- small woods to tho southward and pressed itr» to the hi;;h ground couthcast of liic iUijoii'i',: the new front with tho trenches I'roni.irtg; Vilfers Ilretonnoux, and putting tl ntw four miles of iront on practically a level stretch of ground, falling steeply to the river at tho p-'irih-castc."!! end. It is a very great impi'oveuictit on tho old line, i At the same time an advance was made on the north side of the river between the Homme and the Ancre, thus completing the i-up-ovemeni of our line for nearly five miles. OTTAWA, July 4. The Australians took 1.5C0 prisoners duriiij; the ait'>ek on Ji.amel, and consolidated their positions.