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Show 00 CANADIANS FACE Eighty Divisions Oppose Overseas Over-seas Corps Making Tough Proposition to Handle. WITH THE CANADIAN FORCES IN FRANCE, Monday, Sept. 30. (By the Associated Press) In the operations opera-tions in which the Canadian Third and Fourth divisions have been engaged en-gaged beyond the line they held on the Douai-Cambrai road, they have been faced by a greater number of machine guns than any previously concentrated on the Canadian front. The losses of the offensive forces wero correspondingly heavy. The enemy showed the utmost resolution in his counter-attacks but could not dislodge the Canadians from the railway rail-way on the left. Eight divisions are opposed to the Canadian corps, and although some of them are undoubtedly weak, It makes a very tough proposition especially when the enemy relies mainly for his defense on a dense screen of machine gun positions which can only be overcome over-come by intense artillery preparation. Where such defense is resolute infantry in-fantry advances can be made only at hoavy costs. Our casualties since last Friday have been heavy but in part they are offset by prisoners not far short of six thousand. |