Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-10-17
Views StupendouS Panorama
of Artillery Fire and Sees
British Forces Charging
Through Smoke and Flames
CAPTURE OF RED0UBT
is BRILLIANT FEAT
Peasants Work in Fields and
Women Stand Idly in Door
ways While Terrific Strug-
gle Is in Progress,

tsy .osNlss JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wssl
British Headquarters in France.
oct 15 lvia London, oct l6, p M
Along the Hulluch- Haisnes line,
where the fighting has been almost
continuous since the taking of Loos,
a correspondent had an unprecedent-
ed view Of the British attack which
took the Hohenzollern redoubt.
From q vantage point in the fiat
country VAS witnessed a stupendous
panorama of artillery preparation
and glimpses Of infantry rushing
through smoke and shells So rapid
was the fire that an effort to count
fine number of audible shots per min
ute from the British guns failed. In
front. 20 the right and left, and far
in the rear guns flashed and scatter
ed shells over the landscape. A sec
ond's lull in the firing by the batter
les in the immediate neighborhood
was filled by those farther away.
The line of both the British and
German trenches was discernible in
long clouds Of smoke from the burst
ing shells That OF the German ar
ullery seemed smaller in volume. No
sells were seen bursting in Loos it.
self, which appeared peaceful now
back of the British positions. For
this tremendous concentration was re-
strietcd 10 a narrow theater. against
tbe frontal positions of the opposing
side
II was a warm and perfect autumn
dav 4 bright sun shining through
planes cover. Rolling clouds of gas.
risin, nm fro,, no pritieh trenrb..
like steam from the locomotive of a
passing train above the edge Of a cut.
as it was released from the appara-
ms in the trenches was distinguish
able from the explosion of every va
rietv of shells. The reddish black
British lyddite and coal black Ger
man niue-iucb evnlosives shot mn
tbroneb the lebt and smoke in dense
spnrts tinpad at tho bottom with dust
from the trenches while fle explo-
sion of "A mine made a vast mllsh-
roon-shaped column snake bombs
used ne a eeropn. addinp In the Of
feet Of the Iiaht colored burs, from
the sbranna1 sbot Low, to destrov tho
barbed wire ana biab To search The
trenches
Puffs From SbranneI
LARGO nalihar sbrannal bursting
IN tbe ain n5odo bta ,ianoro,,s mfrs
ana ti-,, ,',1u9 Us aalql o"5 ~
air caused HE black p,ffs There
also were agnhyxiatino pos shells
signal shells tn assis+ tba e,1nners ana
shells which dronned streaming.
points of ftre ike those from sky
rocket
THE SIM sbirin., tbrouph tho clouds
above and below, n,ade a ,,,oss If
changing rolors maj u.as an eve-tir-
ing spartacle Nou- to,vard tt,ui,cb
It was MINI ana tovard Anchv.I.es-
La Basse dsrlr eroer wbilo toward
the Hoben1oIinrn rodoul,+ and rose
the German naranct beoanoe yisibIe
for am instant univ m be hidden
again A,ennos ne fraes aIorg Inc
roads. some of tbon, c,,t dow nv
she'll fire stoo1 ,+rt,,,o.1 mo tole-
phone noios ~ +boi. itn,hs ana roIi-
age ana tbero y.a,o a. III coon tbe
Jagged ruins ne VILLAGES snectraI in
the variepatea ,,3st ~ aastr,totinn.-.
whence eatno .,ontinno,is ,,e1c roar
which sphn,a,..,oa ~, ,o,,r,1 ~ ~
machine oins ana rifles fir,no am
ing the hair bone fra,,, 70 On no
fore the Rritieb infsni,,, snranr from
their trenchee
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