General Gouraud at the time was making his brilliant advance in Champagne.

The Americans were pushing forward in the Argonne.

Both movements were indispensable; but it was the capture of this great fortified system which really decided the war.

"No attack in the history of the world, was ever better carried out," said Marshal Foch to Mr.Ward Price, in Paris, on April 16th last--"than the one made on the Hindenburg line near St.Quentin and Cambrai, by the Fourth, Third and First British Armies, on September 27th-29th.

The enemy positions were most formidable.