5 OCTOBER 1918, Page 2

On Monday the great breach in the Hindenburg Line south

of Le Catelet was widened and deepened. At Levezgies the 82nd Division were three miles east of theSchelde Canal, and the Austra- lians on their left bombed their way above and below ground through the German rear defences. Further north our men reached the canal bank along their whole front, after desperate fighting at Villers-Guislain, which had been taken, lost, and retaken. To the immediate south and north of Cambrai the Germans 'fought most stubbornly, but when our troops pressed into the suburbs the enemy set the famous old town on fire—a barbarous deed which must not be forgiven them, and which was an admission of coming defeat.