10 AUGUST 1918, Page 1
On the Amiens front the Germans on Saturday last withdrew
from the positions west of the Ancre which they had held since March. They had failed to hold the ridge west of Albert, and had remained in the swampy valley under our incessant shell-fire. They evacuated Albert itself, but the ruins are too exposed and too full of gas to be reoccupied by us. Further south, beyond the Somme, the Germans last Sunday effected a similar retirement from the west of the Ancre, on the twelve-mile stretch north of Montdidier. Between the Ancre and the Somme, however, the enemy on Tuesday used a division from his dwindling reserves in a strong local attack on the positions taken by the Australians last week. He recovered part of the ground, but was deprived of it by an English counter-attack on Wednesday.
