General Foch, on the Western Front, has continued to improve
the Allied line and harass the enemy by local attacks on a restricted scale. The Australians, who in conjunction with American troops took Hamel on Thursday week, have made further small advances in the same district on both sides of the Somme, and also gained some ground near Merris, on the Flanders front. The French have had three successful affairs of this kind. On Thursday week, between the Oise and Aisne, they attacked to the west of Autrelms, advancing nearly a mile on a three-mile front and taking one thousand and sixty-six prisoners. On Monday, to the south of the Aisne, they began an offensive near Longpont, east of the Forest of Villers-Cotterets ; here on Wednesday they were still pushing forward into the German outpost lines. On Tuesday, to the west of the Oise, the French, supported by tanks, attacked the enemy to the west of Antheuil, %%here his last advance on Compier,no was hold up, and gained a
mile of ground, with five hundred and thirty prisoners. The cumu- lative effect of these actions, which have yielded four thousand prisoners in a week, is as cheering for the Allied Armies as it is dis- concerting for the enemy.
