BRITISH LOCAL SUCCESSES.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14875, 25 September 1918, Page 5

BRITISH LOCAL SUCCESSES.

STRONG POINTS' CAPTURED.

FRENCH PROGRESS AT ST.

QUENTIN.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable; Association

and neuter's.)

London, Sept. 23.

Sir Douglas Haig reports :-^-

There were successful minor operations on Sunday at several points. English troops captured a strong point in the neighbourhood of Roussey-Boug road.. A counter-attack was repulsed with heavy enemylosses.

We also made progress in the direction of Tomboise Farm and captured a group of strongly held trenches and a strong point north-west of Vendouille.

The English eastward of Gavrelle progressed three-quarters of a mile on a mile front.

The enemy, under a -heayy barrage, penetrated our line at Berthacburt at one point. A counter-attack re-estab-lished the position.

A French communique says:—

In the region- of St.iQuentin we continued to advance last night. We penetrated the woods north of La Fontaine, and carried the fort and village of Vendeuil. We pushed" on to the Oise.

Our reconnaissances .took prisoners north of the Aisne and in Champagne towards the Bufcte-de-Mesnil. We repulsed enemy ijaids north of, the. Vosges. , ~",.; ,'„,;„, ' C-... I