ANNALES DE LA GUERRE 82 [Main Title]

I. French newsreel item of a still photograph, irised in and out, of two Bulgarian officers in a car on their way to negotiate the surrender of Bulgaria to the Allies, Salonika Front, 30th September 1918.

II. French newsreel item on the British and Canadian advance through towns abandoned by the Germans, Western Front, October 1918.

III. French newsreel item of the entrances to the three captured forts of Nogent, l'Abbesse and Brimont from which the Germans bombarded Rheims, Western Front, October 1918.

IV. French newsreel item of General Mangin talking with US Ambassador William G Sharp near Laon, posed for cameras, Western Front, October 1918.

Armentières, set on fire by the Germans in their retreat, no longer burning but showing damage to the main streets. Lens and its church are a pile of rubble and bricks. La Bassée is only half-standing, British troops, of I Corps, inspect the ruins before marching off. Some British sappers dig through the banks of the La Bassée Canal to make a crossing point. Cambrai (tinted red) is on fire as troops of Canadian 3rd Division watch. The Canadians, one carrying a French flag, move through the city, working as fire-fighters with pumps and buckets. Lorry-towed 4.5-inch howitzers move through the town (tinting ends).

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