A map issued by the Tank Corps shows that close to this point on the Cambrai-Bapaume road six tanks were operating--among them no doubt that agile fellow, whose tracks still show on the hillside!--while on the whole front of the Third and First Armies sixty-five tanks were in action.

By the end of that long day 10,000 prisoners had been taken, and 200 guns, an earnest of what was to follow.
It was on the front of the Fourth Army, however, in the section from St.Quentin to Gouzeaucourt, that the heaviest blow was planned by the Commander-in-Chief.

Here the "exceptional strength of the enemy's position made a prolonged bombardment necessary." So while the First and Third Armies were advancing, on the north, with a view to lightening the task of the Fourth Army, for forty-eight hours General Rawlinson maintained a terrible bombardment, which drove the defenders of the famous line underground, and cut them off from food and supplies.

And on the morning of the 29th the Fourth Army attacked.
But I have no intention of repeating in any detail the story of that memorable day.

The exploit of the 46th Division under General Boyd, in swimming and capturing the southern section of the Canal below Bellenglise, will long rank as one of the most amazing stories of the war.