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CANADIAN TROOPS TAKE BOURLON WOOD

Others Sweep Eastward and Turn Enemy Flank on Canal du Nord.

A GREAT VICTORY

Fourth "Show" at Cambrai Most Notable of All--Casualties Light.

By J. F. B. Livesay,  Canadian Press Correspondent.

With the Canadian Forces, Sept. 27.--A great and impressive victory, and with relatively few casualties--that is the situation at this hour.  Our troops are still pressing on towards the gates of Cambrai.

The Canadian corps opened the battle for Bourlon Wood sharp at 5.20 this morning, and before noon was reported to be in complete possession, while others of our troops were sweeping north-east, turning the enemy flank on the Canal du Nord.

A great concentration of artillery, in which Imperial heavies and the converging fire of British neighboring corps materially assisted, prepared the way for the infantry.  They had a hard battle for the Canal du Nord, for although it is dry at the point selected for the attack, in front of Inchy-en-Artois, it is a formidable embrasure a hundred feet wide and thirty to fifty deep.  But soon their flares from the hills to the east showed they were making satisfactory progress.

This is the fourth set show the Canadian corps has put over since August 8, and its developments promise to make it the most notable of all.  Last midnight it began to rain, but it cleared up this morning. Our infantry moved secretly from their old line, and last night toughed it out in the open, lying in old trenches or behind hill crests.  There are always some tense minutes before "zero".  It is a pregnant hour.  If the enemy is apprised of the attack he will lay down a barrage on our concentrated troops and reap a bitter harvest.  For several days he had been nervous, but he was again caught by surprise.  The entire staff of an artillery battery was captured without a shot being fired.