Our troops have gained ground chiefly east of Epehy towards
Vendhuille, on the Cambrai-St. Quentin Canal, further south in the Australian sector east of Hargicourt, and immediately to the north- west of Hargicourt, where a successful attack on a four-mile front on Tuesday brought our men within two miles of St. Quentin and almost in our old lines of March la8t. A thottaand prisoners were taken in this affair. The French, who had taken one village after another south-west and south of St. Quentin, and had by Sunday last occupied several miles of the bank of the Oise north of La Fare, co-operated in Tuesday's offensive and stormed Francilly and Dallon, only a mile short of their positions of last year. Further north, beyond the Scarps, there has been sharp fighting east of Gavrelle, on the Arras-Douai road. Last Saturday and Sunday our men gained ground, and repulsed a serious counter-attack on Monday. Throughout the week the enemy has continued his efforts to push back General Mangin from the western end of the heights of the Aisne, but the French are immovable. As we writs on Thursday we learn that the French have opened a new offensive in Champagne, in co-operation with the American Army further east.
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