stretching back to
the horizon. Several men resting in the foreground.]
Canadian Official Photograph.
From Underwood and Underwood, N. Y.
CANADIANS IN THE GREAT CAMBRAI DRIVE
One of the busy scenes just preceding the victorious attack by the
Canadians upon Cambrai. In the center can be seen captured Germans
carrying in one of their wounded comrades.

In the French official report occurred the following statement:

"The brilliant operation which we, in concert with British troops,
executed yesterday has been a surprise for the enemy. As occurred in the
offensive of July 18th the soldiers of General Debeney have captured
enemy soldiers engaged in the peaceful pursuit of harvesting the fields
behind the German lines."

By August 10th the Germans had fallen back to a line running through
Chaulnes and Roye. Montdidier had been captured, and eleven German
divisions had been smashed. By August 12th the number of prisoners was
40,000, and by the 18th the Allied front was almost in the same line as
it was in the summer of 1916, before the battle of the Somme.

The next step was to capture Bapaume and Peronne. The French, on August
19th, captured the Lassigny Massif, and continued to press on their
attack. Noyon fell on the 29th, Roye on the 27th, Chaulnes on the 29th.
Further north the British had captured Albert, and on the 29th occupied
Bapaume. On September 1st they took Peronne with two thousand prisoners.

The advance still continued, and the German weakness was becoming more
and more apparent. On September 6th the whole Allied line swept forward,
with an average penetration of eight miles. Chauny was captured and the
fortress of Ham. On September 17th the British were close to St. Quentin
and the French in their own old intrenchments before La Fere. On
September 18th a surprise advance over a twenty-two-mile front crossed
the Hindenburg line at two points north of St. Quentin, Villeret and
from Pontru to Hollom.

The first and third British armies, a little further to the north, were
moving toward Cambrai and Douai, threatening not only them, but to get
in the rear of Lens. This force proceeded up the Albert-Bapaume highway,
and on August 27th captured a considerable portion of the Hindenburg
line. On the 30th they reached Bullecourt and on September 2d crossed
the Drocourt-Queant line on a six-mile-front. This was the famous switch
line, meant to supplement the Hindenburg line and its capture meant t