Earlier on Wednesday our armies, having reached the Hindenburg line
west of Cambrai, made a whirlwind attack upon its outworks between Cambrai and St. Quentin. The Third and Fourth Armies, with two Australian divisions in the right centre, advanced on a sixteen. mile front between Gouzeaucourt and Hohron, beyond which the French continued the attack on a six-mfie front to the south-west of St. Quentin. The enemy offered a most stubborn resistance, but he was overwhelmed. Our wings advanced more than a mils, while our centre penetrated for three miles into the enemy's strong defences. The Australians forced their way, beyond the farthest point that we reached last year, into the German lines near Belli. court, where the 8t. Quentin Canal emerges from its long tunnel. The two-mils stretch above this tunnel is the only part of the Hindenburg line, south of Gouzeaucourt, which is not protected by the canal against our tanks. Eastern County and London troops, on the left of the Australians, stormed Epehy and went far beyond that important position, while the 21st Division retook the old trenches north of Epehy, which it held with resolute gallantry against incessant German attacks on March 21st and 22nd last. At the end of the day our troops were holding almost the same line as they held when the German offensive began. Late at night they resumed the attack in the centre, and carried the outpcsts of the Hindenburg line north and Eouth of Bellicourt. The Germans lost very heavily. We captured over six thousand prisoners and a number of guns. The French odour right had a very kurd struggle, but they pushed forward a mile on the west and south of St. Quentin and took several hundred prisoners.
