Four Miles Past Hinden-burg Defences.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 3 October 1918, Page 3

Four Miles Past Hindenburg Defences.

CANADIANS STRIKE-A SNAG. OAMBR-A1 DELIBERATELY SET ON ITRiE. (Received this day, 10.35 a.m. Mr Pereival Phillips says: The Canadians underwent a hard ovdieal yesterday wheai they failed to make progres on. their battlefront. They 'swung forward against a devastating ) machine gun fire and pushed' into Bio- i couttt and TiUoy, but by -sheer iforce of | shells till© Germaais pushed! them back. , General Ourrio withdrew 'his men, j swiftly planned a heavier barrage and | attacked agatn to-day along the whole J front. Despite the German reinforce- | ments the Canadians by. mine o'clock . liad reached the Morenchaes —iPontaire bridgehead and B&millice on tihie north. As the Canadians fought in ithe villa , ges mnd upon the spurs a great pillar of j smoke arising from Oambrali' indicated : that it had been set on fire. As ex- , pectedi the enemy deliberately started the fires, for no .British shell fel'l waulMn the town. . . , I Despite their dogged resistance tlie Germans must liave realised that their task wtas hopeless- ' , ■ . , J lighting southward amd southwestwardT of & town, w!here the English, j Soottv?li and; cithers were engaged, re- i suited in; a farther advance around that | side of Oambrai. , . , I One of the finest exptats has beou , t!hle storming of the Gorman salient i eastward of Marcoing. The New. Zealanders participated. They cleared the > south bunk of the U&nttl i&xid 00-opcra- | ting with the Yorkshires enlter-ed Oreve- | . coeur, whikf yesterday the Australians | bombed thotr way northward/ through j the Hinrienburg defences towards Bouy . and Joncourt, pulahing and ■octtpying Mill Ridge and tLatroes. Other troops took Laivergies. " I Tli© Australian movement threatens | the 'German garrison, at Gou'y. They found strong resistance m a patah or old trenches between Nauroy and to- " trees- -wihere the iGermaaite had niaaiitaiined a lamp signalling station for the Hlndiewbuirg line. . As a result of to-day's operations we aw established nearly four miles to the eastward of the Hindenburg main diefences. At some pointsi southward ot Yendliuile we are against the southern end of the eo-cal'led Masnieres —Boauirevodr line, which wo already' hold north of Vendhuita, wlliile behind it tlhere is no well-established continuous trench system. , .