On the Western Front there has been very heavy fighting
all the week in front of the Hindenburg Line from the west of Cambrai to the west of St. Quentin. The British and French troops, in a series of local attacks, have occupied one after another of the fortified villages and farms which form the outworks of the Hinden- burg defences. But the enemy has offered a strenuous resistance, and has delivered incessant counter-attacks of great violence, regardless of the coat in lives. He has failed almost every time to regain ground, even for a moment, but his counter-attacks continue, as if he feared to let us approach a step nearer to the famous line which his statesmen describe as impregnable. The Allies could desire nothing better than that the Germans should spend themselves vainly in trying to thrust us back.
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