FIGHTING IN HAVRICOURT WOOD.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14860, 6 September 1918, Page 5

FIGHTING IN HAVRICOURT WOOD.

MOEUVRES CAPTURED

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received Sept. 5, 9.40 p.m.)

London, Sept. 4

We have made further progress along the Canal dv Nord, which was crossed on a three-mile front southward of

Inchy

We also reached Nouville and Bourjonval, which is a mile eastward of the

canal

We are now approaching the old Cambrai battlefield. Our troops are fighting their way through Havricourt Wood, of which wo already hold the north-west-ern portion. :

We have captured Moeuvres and are pressing towards the German positions prepared for the defence of Douai and Cambrai.

Large fires well behind the Vesle indicate a further German retreat before the French and Americans.