Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-20

would settle down for the winter in
their new advantageous positions.
Never probably have more guns been
playing oven the same length of front
than along the six miles where the
British made their advance on July /,
and where they have continued their
offensive with phlegmatic and logged
persistence. The Germans kept on
bringing up guns until now they have
1000, $50 to the mile in tina short sec
tor. The Associated Press correspond
emf, moving over the region of the de-
Nastated villages and shell torn earth
intersected by new roads. saw on either
hand how enormously the British had
increased their own artillery.
Work Like Machines
Sun-tanned nj weather beaten We're
the gunners, after their 10 weeks of
work. There We're ines and clusters
and parks Of guns. Rows OF batteries
larity of mechanical workmanship OF
the needles of a loom weaving cloth.
Alongside each other We're British and
French batteries.
The gunners of neither ally could
speak the language of the other, yet
both going on with their parts, accord.
ing to charted Instructions.
All Night eombardment.
At midnight. the correspondent again
walked about the gun which were going
on with their night shift of gunners
whose features were Illuminated by
flashes. Except for the guns which
know no rest, the army seemed silent
and asleep for the most part. Every
body and everything was in place and
ready. including tllose strange
grotesque new armored cars, which
were to AVE their baptism of fire in
the morning.
I'VE keep on tearing. we of the new
army" said one of the young officers,
and with every shot do a little better.
Battle is the great teacher"
And the guns never stopped their
~ear-racking noise from daylight to
darkness n darkness to dawn. Now
and then. the keys of tina strident
piano were struck In a chord. When
dawn came, all the keys began to bang
at once.
there had been a hellish little prelimi-
nary sideshow near, Thiepval. The
Germans a there a warren, deep
dugouts and galleries, which they
called their "wunder werk." Before
daylight the British got in there under
cover of their gun fire, bombed their
way through galleries which became
catacombs, and made themselves mas
tiers of the position after hours of ugly
work.
Attack Most SkilIful.
Then also, before sunup, only an
hour before the time set for the British
attack, the Germans. who a no idea
the British We're coming on in another
big push. made a small tta e in the
neighborhood of Mouquet farm. They
took a section of trench and were hold
ing 1T at the when tina wave
of British, six miles long, began to
move. The British reserves in that
area swept over the Germans and their
own men who were struggling with the
Germans on the objective set for three
days work.
A chill autumn morning mist, pre-
ceding a day of brilliant sunshine, hid
the actual attack, which the British
officers think was the most skillful
the British army has ever made. The
British We're putting behind them not
only the ridge but the old second line
as Well as the first line trenches which
they a struggled SO hard to gain. and
We're going against the new third line
which h Germans had Deer building
under u~nceasing British shell fire.
Like Prehistoric Monsters.
With the infantry wen those new
motor cars. across trenches and shell
holes. So l%udicrous are they in appear-
ance hat the British soldiers laughed
at them in the midst of the charge.
They cheered them as they played their
streams of machin gGn bullets. Like
some prehistoric monsters they must
have seemed to the Germans, who had
to seek dugouts, or flight, or else they
surrendered.
So far as reports indicate, the Britt
ish everywhere gained possession of the
new German trenches, except opposite
Ginchy. There the German chung with
desperate courage and dog to bone ten
acity to remain in that bit of high
ground IN that piece by piece defense
of his. There he still keeps up the
struggle. at last accounts.
Again in High wood he had kept a
redSupt with a nest OF machine guns
which the armored motor cars engaged.
machine gun to machine gun, while the
British infantry passed around it az
around a rock in a flood.
Capture Six Colonies.
Among the prisoners are six colonies.
One Of these had the honor of beins
captured by the newest weapo which;
has added picturesqueness to present
Gay warfare. This more motor car.
which crosses trenches n holes, ran
over the colonel's dusout. He surren.
dered to the crew. which took him on
board, and after the fight was over de-
livered him to a guard of infantry.
In one case 100 Germans surrendered
in a body to one of the arYnored motors.
Again an aeroplane reported that one
OF the motors was moving up a street
of the village of F!ers while wildly YELL
ing British infantry followed it. Aero
planes descended very low during the
battle and never were there more
fights or more vicious one than those
Of yesterday while h new armored
cars We're parti"ipating in the infantry
charges. Altogether the British
brought down 13 German planes.