The climax was reached on Tuesday. General Debeney's French First
Army on our right broke into the Hindenburg Line to the north , and south of St. Quentin and captured the town. On our left, after hours of very violent fighting with strong enemy rein- forcements round Cambrai, British and New Zealand troop, at dusk carried the high ground near Rumilly south of the town, while the Canadians established themselves in its northern ,suburb, and thus settled its fate. Meanwhile in the centre the 32nd Division, ad- vancing through the wide gap in the 3Iindenburg Line, stormed yet another line between Fonsomme and Beaurevoir, covering the roads to Guise and Le Cateau. They were pressed back on Wednesday by a fierce counter-attach, but Marshal Hindenburg's " impreg- nable " system of field-wculs had been shattered beyond repair. In four days thirty-six enemy divisions had been broken in vain efforts to hold back the British armies.
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