On the enemy's western flank, while the Belgians have halted
outside Bottlers and our Second Army have followed the retreating Germans to within a few miles of Lille, the battle of Cambrai has continued to rage furiously. The British and Australian divisions in the centre, supported this week by American troops, battered at the enemy's reserve or Weaurevoir-Masniares line which had been constructed behind the Hindenburg Line. They had breached the Beaurevoir line on Thursday week, but the enemy poured his reserves into the gap and day after day multiplied his counter- attacks in order to delay our advance at any cost. Meanwhile our pressure further north compelled the enemy last Saturday to abandon the remnant of the Hindenburg Line along the canal south of Cambrai, while the French on our right cleared the line east of St. Quentin.
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