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Show BRITISH TROOPS CAPTURE DISK Break Deeply Into Enemy Positions on Thirty-Mile Thirty-Mile Front. ' LONDON, Nov. 4. The British have entered Oisy. and further north have captured cap-tured Landrecies. From the latter point to just west of Guise, which is still in the enemy's hands, ::ie British advanced about a mile along the Sambrc-Olse canal and the Oise. Fighting is proceeding around Le Ques-noy. Ques-noy. where the Germans launched a heavy counter-attack. Breaking deeply into the enemy posi- 1 tions along a thirty-mile front today, the British captured more than 10,000 pris- ! oners and 200 guns. ' j The line of the ijamhre canal "was j stormed and the British made an ad- vanee of- more than three miles beyond it to the east. The statement says: "This morning troops o: the Fourth. Thh-d and First British armies attacked between the Sanibre canal, Oisy and the river Scheldt, north of Valenciennes. On the whole of this thirty-mile front troops from the United Kingdom and New Zealand Zea-land have broken deeply into the enemy's positions. Over 10,000 prisoners and 200 guns are already reported captured. "On the right of the attack the First an,d Thirty-second divisions advanced to : t? assault in conjunction with French forces operating to the south of them. I With great dasii and gallantry these two I I 'visions stormed the formidable obsta- 1 cle presented by the line of the Sarabre tana!, and, in spite of strong resistance j from the enemy, have pressed on to a j depth of over three miles to the east of it. f "In these operations the First division, ' under command of General Strickland, having captured the town of Catillon, t forced passages of the canal opposite that j place and near the lock two miles to the 1 sopth of it. At the latter point, assisted by royal engineers, the First Cameron Highlanders effected the passage of the canal in six minutes. "In its subsequent advance .this division di-vision captured the villages of Fesmy. Ilautr5ve and La Groise, with 13QC prisoners. pris-oners. "'On its left the Thirty-second division crossed the canal at Ors and after se- j vere fighting 'took Ruedenhau;. Having 1 cieared the line of the canal to the south and north of this village, it continued its advance and drove the enemy from the villages of Mezieres, Lafolie and S-amber- ton. I "In the center of th,e attack the Thirteenth Thir-teenth division, under General Morland. 1 the Fifth. General Shute, and the Fourth I corps. General Harper, attacked the western west-ern face of Mormal forest. "After heavy fighting the infantry and I tftnks drove the enemy from his posi- j tion in the western outskirts of the 1 forest, capturing the villages of Soiyeres. ! Preux-au-Bois, Hecq. Fuioy and Eou- j vienies. "Thereafter our infant it continued I the advance, overcoming alike the great j natural difficulties of the heavily wooded ground and the resistance of the enemy. "Moving through the inclosed country on the southern edge of the forest, the Twenty-fifth division forced crossings of I le Sambre canal opposite Ijandrectes and , cap-.ured the town. Further north the I Eighteenth and Fiftieth divisions nene- ! (rated deeply into the forest itself and are still advancing. J'The Thirty-eighth division has reached 1 I e Grand and Pature-s and tJie Peven I teenth division has captured Locquignol. 1 mj fhe center of the forest. "Severe fighting took plce this morn- t in in the neighborhood of Ee Quesnov. 1 where the enemy counter-attacked In j 'nr- and was renulsed by a New Zea- i land division with great loss in killed j and prisoners. Our troops have crossed ! to the soutli and north of this fortified j town and are now several miles to the ' eapt of it. "On the left Englisii troops, having fol- lowed tip the enemv close'. y throughout his withdrawal yesterday morning, at-tked at-tked and drove him from his new position po-sition on the line of the Aunelle river. East of this river the guards division has Apt u red Preux-au-Sart. and the Twenty- j fWn-rh division has " captured Wargnlej"- j MPetlt and Wargnies-le-Grand. The i Nineteen tii division iias crossed the Au-neTif Au-neTif river east of Jenlain. "Further north our troops jiold Se- : jo and Sehourqulatix. "Ou the extreme left, to the northeast of Valenciennes, the Canadian troons havA msde nrogress along the right bank of the ScheV t and ha ve passed bey o n d E-- "a-'x and Onnning. "Our advance is continuing on the, w'"Ole batilefront." |