Allied Advance Described

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13817, 5 October 1918, Page 3

Allied Advance Described

THE OFFICIAL REPORT. .■■. V LONDON, October.4 Sir Douglas Hmg reports*: —At dawn the British, infantry .^nd tanks attacked'on-an-eight mile front, from Sequehar to tihe canal norti^wiard of BbnyJ"' The attack was s-uocessful at all points. ' On the rig^t of'attack the English and Scottish of : tihe 3'ind. Division retook;' 'Sequehart, baking prisoners, and later beat off a counter attack with lose. ' In the centre the English storinied LiaondcOui-t and W.aaricourt, . taking several hundred^ prisoners, while the 2<i^L Australian; j Division broke through I*he Fohsomn^BeaxireVoir ihe west and southwest oi Beaurevoir. The troops of these two livisions, accompanied by tanks, •cached the western outskirts of Montbrejh'aiihi and secured ihe high ground southward and sou/tih-west-i\ard of Beaui'evoir. On the left of the attack; tihe English and Irish, forced t)he passages of bhe Scheldt oanaT at Gouy and Le Cablet, capturing both, villages and the ihigh. groiuid eastward. The enemy counter-attacked strongly in the afternoon.. Heavy fighting xratinues. W© took a large numiber of prisoners in tihese successful operations. Oa the remainder of the St. Quen-bin-Cambi'ai fcattlefront only patrol &ncoun,tei-s occun-ed, wjherein we sec wed prisoners. , ,In"Hhe area of the enemiy's withdrawal northwau'd cf the Scjarpe .; we progressed steadily all day, maintaining constant pressui'e on the German rearguards. • Lens lias been cleared of the enemy. Our advanced detachments have reached the general line of Avion to Vendin, Le Vieil, Hantay, Wicres aaid Heiiies, and we are eastward of Bodsgremier. We have occupied Armentieres.— -■ A. and N.Z-. Cable. Tlie American coaiMnunique states: Witih the Frencih forces we drove back the enemy and took Monzaiblac ond otiher positions in tie . pagne.Between the Mosselle and the Argonne foreet there was artillery and patrol activity.—A. and N.Z. Cable. PURSUING THE ENEMY. NEW YORK, October 4 Enemy attacks on Le CMelet hiave been S'miashed. «■ The British pursuing tihe Germans (have reached the railway' east of Lens.—A. and.N.<Z. Cable.