GAINS SOUTH OF THE SCARPE.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14861, 7 September 1918, Page 5

GAINS SOUTH OF THE SCARPE.

WEDNESDAY'S ADVANCE.

('The Times.")

„ London, Sept. 5. Mr Perry Robinson .writes:—On Wednesday the advance south of the Scarpe averaged 3000 to 7000 yards. It is uncertain whether the enemy will elect to stand behind the Nord Canal. They can hardly give up the line on the right—Morsy-le-Verger and BourlonPlesquieres, without surrendering Cambra i, while on the left the retreat beyond Vitry-en-Artois endangers. Douai.

The flooding of the Sensee and Scarpe rivers suggests their intention to stand on these lines.

Where the enemy have fallen back so rapidly wo have difficulty in catching them, but the first blow was so shattering and the subsequent pressure so continuous that wo were able to take 15,000 prisoners on a narrow front in three days.