Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-05
7ouns Leueled
By British Guns
German Positions .Arc Bathcd
in Showers Of Steel, and
Cyun,pic Into Dust.

| PRESS HEADQUARTERS ON THE.
| FRENCH FRONT July Cvia London.
/ July +l.-Sicre lighting continued to-
day beyond Fricour, The British, talk
ing Poodle and the bottom woods. ad :
vanccd toward the main German sec
ond line Of defense
The Associated Press correspondent
to-day went over the territory prcvi-
ously taken by the British from the
wcst OF Montauhan through the ia
nous DRntziE Alley. where tho Ger
man nest Of machine guns gave tho
British their greatest trouble in their
first days attack on Mamctz and Fri
court, which now arc being steadily
shelled by the Germans. officers and
mon who nave hcen All through the
lighting said they had been regularly
supplied with food, but that they
needed a good wash" and that water
WAS unproCurablc.
The soldiers in DanZiE Alley were
excited over ono of those theatrical
scenes which this rolling country af-
fords in this cose-in fighting. When
the British closed in upon tho trenches
NJ Poodle woods the German sol
dicrs, already surrounded, came ont
holding up their hansis. Thus II body
OF more than 800 men. after being
hammered inCcssant1y with shell fire
for four days. dramatically surren-
dcred before the eyes OF the CORE
Spondcrt
The British Gunffre. so far as could
be seen, was much heavier than the
German. while. according TO all re-
ports from the front line. the Germans
have withdrawn all their guns from tho
valley, which is now controlled by the
British. To positions on the ridges.
Eoth Mamctz and Fricourt virtually
are levelcd. The earth and brick
buildings were kneaded by shell fire
thrown into tn" communication trench
cs running through these villages.
Where the PREDATORY bombardment
was most severe strong German posi-
tons in dusouts thirty feet deep did
not save their defenders from the big
shells. and trenches became formless
heaps OF earth, Bits of the green
German uniforms. flesh and accouter-
inents were mixed with rags and
churned samdbacs in uncanny horror.
British soldiers were gathering the
German dead and burying their own
in communication trenches AT one
spot where the British suffered in
charging machine gun position the
battalion mascot, a black and tan mon
prel dog lay dead beside his human
companions. all OF whom had fallen
with their face toward the German
trenches.
Officers me, on the front line agree
that the new army battalions con-
Quoted themselves with the same gal
lantry as the regulars. Everybody
there on the ncwly-won ground close 10
the enemy Was expecting at any mo-
meut orders TO make another effort.
When not digging in they slept in
the genial sunlight. which WAS not SO
hot as yesterday.
Germans lately taken prisoner,
when interviewed. Indicated that bat
talons were rushed from as far a.
Rheims and Lille TO meet the Anglo
French attack.
The village OF La Boiselle. recently
50 hotiy contested. was observed this
afternoon TO be shelled no longer By
British. but by Gcrman guns, which
told uf the success ar the British at
taclis Taking refuge in deep cellars.
protected 10y nous. floors. layers OF
sandhags and debris the Germans
brought out their machine guns after
the, bomba rdment and resumed the
fight. There was small Siege, but
tn, Survivors now have capitulated.