Last Saturday, while the Allies continued their eastward advance in
face of a growing resistance, the French Third Army under General Humbert delivered a fierce assault from the south on the enemy's front between Montdidier and the Oise. It was once again a complete surprise, and was developed with such determina- tion that General Humbert's troops advanced over six miles and regained nearly all the ground lost in mid-June. The Germans thus flung back eastward and northward by the Allied Armies found themselves once more roughly on the old trench-lines south of the Somme which they had hell from September, 1914, to February, 1917. Their Montdidier salient had ceased to exist. North of the Somme they were pushed a little further eastward beyond Etinehem. South of the river their line ran almost straight, west of Chaulae,s, Roye, and Lassigny; to the Oise at Ribecourt.
