SUCCESSFUL MINOR OPERATIONS'

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14857, 3 September 1918, Page 5

SUCCESSFUL MINOR OPERATIONS'

CONTINUED PROGRESS IN THE

HORTH.

IMMENSE CAPTURES LN AUGUST.

(Australian and N.Z.'Cable Association and Reuter.)

(Received Sept-3, 1.40 .a.m.)

London, Sept. 2. Sir Doiiglas Haig reports: J We carried out successful minor operations ata number of points south .of. the Arras-Cambrai road. We have driven the enemy out of the high ground at liorvaJ and .capturedBeaulenconrt. > : We are pressing the enemy hard inLe Transloy, and hatv© completed the ca,pturo of BiUlecounfc and lliencourt-lez-Cagnieourt, taking hundreds .of prisoners in these operations. The Canadians repulsed ;a counterattack against the new positions gained this morning northward .of Hendeeourti ° Our progress contdinHed in the hens and I/ys sectors. We reached Doulieu, Le terrier, and Steemverck, and ;are. engaging the enemy -at Neuve Eglise, and Wulyerghem. . ; During August we captured 57,318 ; prisoners, of whom 1283 were officers, and took 657 guns, Including 150 heavy giyis, besides 5750 maeTiine, .gu-as and 100© trench mortal's. Other captures included three trains, nine :locoTnoiav«s, and numerous complete ammunition anS engineer dumpß containing many 'hundred thousand rounds of gun and small arms ammunition, and immense quantities of other war material..