The enemy made a powerful attack on our Cambrai salient
last Sunday. He advanced on a front of two miles against Welsh Ridge, and effected a lodgment on our right and our left. In the course of the day he was expelled by our counter-attacks from most of the trenches which he had taken. He tried again on Monday, on a front of three-quarters of a mile, and, by using liquid fire, forced his way into one trench near La Vacquerie. He was, how- ever; driven out at once by a counter-attack, and the position was restored. Welsh Ridge is tactically valuable as high and dry ground overlooking the swampy plain along the Schelde Canal where the enemy is now entrenched. In front of Cambrai, as along the rest of our line, we now look down on the enemy as he used to look down on us, and it is clear from the action on Welsh Ridge that we are fully capable of maintaining this great advantage through the winter.
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