quickly succeeded; the rest of the brigade advanced soon after but was engaged west of Avion, by French infantry and artillery firing from Lens and Givenchy. One battalion reached the Lens–Arras road but then managed to advance only another before dark. A desperate night attack then captured the wooded hill () between Souchez and Givenchy, before dawn on 5 October. arrived at dawn, paused at a wood near Liévin and then attacked towards a wood (now Bois de l'Abîme) north-east of Souchez. A cavalry regiment had moved forward independently to high ground west of Angres by calling out to civilians that they were British cavalry. German troops entered Lens, which had been held by a group of French cyclists and a dismounted brigade of the 5th Cavalry Division. The progress of assisted further south, to capture Acheville before daybreak, despite a determined French defence and then press on beyond two more defence lines was limited. The advance was stopped short of the railway embankment east of Vimy. New orders arrived for the troops to press on, as it was mistakenly believed that the French were withdrawing but the German infantry made no attempt to advance in daylight, over open ground and without artillery support. Another order arrived at to cross the embankment, take the ridge and (Telegraph Hill, now Hill 139) to no effect. Later on, after sharing out a large quantity of wine captured at Bois-Bernard, an attack began at and reached the embankment after thirty minutes. The advance continued up the ridge south of Vimy but missed La Folie (Hill 140) in the dark and ended up on but French troops had already retired from Vimy and the hill. captured Arleux at on 4 October, made a costly advance to Willerval and then at was held up at the railway embankment and the village of Farbus until dark. As the units further north advanced, was able to advance through Farbus and reach around midnight. The 5th Bavarian Reserve Division had managed a considerable advance, despite increasing French resistance, casualties and fatigue but Vimy Ridge had not been captured apart from . The 1st Bavarian Reserve Division had hardly moved all its attacks on Bailleul having failed, causing a gap to appear between the divisions. It was hoped that German cavalry divisions would be able to advance on 5 October and that the 7th Cavalry Division would manage to