A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War

by R. P. P. Rowe

Macedonian Front:—The British gain ground on the right bank of the Vardar.

Sept. 2 (Mon.)

Arras Front:—The Canadians with other British troops break through the Drocourt-Quéant switch line on a front of six miles.

The French capture Neuilly and Terny Sorny.

Sept. 3 (Tues.)

The British widen the breach in the Hindenburg defences, capture Drocourt, and advance on Inchy and Mœuvres; this marks the end of the Battle of the Scarpe (see Aug. 26), in which the British captures amount to 200 guns and over 16,000 prisoners.

The Germans evacuate Lens.

The French cross the Somme at Epanancourt.

Sept. 4 (Wed.)