Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-07
ALL KINDS OF MEN FROM ALL
PARTS OF EARTH TOOK PART IN
MOST DRAMATIC BATTLE OF WAR

British Front in France, Sept. 30
The most dramatic and picturesque
battle of the British army in all its
two years in France was fought on
September Is. Here is the story Of
how all kinds of men from the ends
of the earth took part in this mighty
conflict.
In tho same dressing station this
week the correspondent of the AS
Sociated Press has seen Canadians,
New Zealanders, English, Scotch,
Irish, New Foundlanders and Ameri-
cans. These We're some of the men
of many countries who took part in
the now historic battle and with them
there went into action those armored
motor cars, called tanks" which are
to the credit of a quiet officer of en-
SineerS.
Many Americans in Fight
The correspondent went over the
ground which Canadians had taken up
to the edge of the village of Cource-
lette. Later they stormed the village.
He met Canadians who came from
Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and
Vancouver. But when he asked some
of them what part of Canada they
hailed from. they replied: THE same
country as you do-the United States" "
There were men with the accents of
Missouri and New England and 9TH
ers who on the soil of France, hailed
one another in the French tongue
of Quebec.
I'VE got into big show. all right"
said the Americans "and that Is what
had rushed to the attack of the ridges
of the Somme against machine gun
fire and shells carried themselves by
all accounts in manner worthy of
the traditions of the Civil war. 1t
was the Canadians first offensive on
n ~ hier CnnIa 4.
shock of attack at the second battle
of Ypres, at st. Eloi. Orrell hill and
Sanctuary wood and 1t had been their
fortune up to the present to stand un-
der blows rather than give them. They
wanted their chance on the Somme
to mako good as they said. and they
had 1t.
This rainy day one saw battalions
of them marching out from the
trenches they had won and other bat
falions marching in. Those fresh
from the fight were plastered with
mud but triumphant. They had sun
dried stories to tell while the rain
dripped from their tarpaulins, of how
the boys had made good. The
wounded also drenched by the rain,
eagerly Joined in these stories. The
Canadians are known as tho "byng
boys after the name of their corps
commander. and also by virtue of a
PopuLar sonB III lJOnuon enI1tled Inc
Byng Boys are Here"
Dealt Brilliant Stroke
General Byng grasped the idea that
the Canadians have initiative. Just
there. as far as the correspondent
could learn. is the essential OF the uni
versal1y admitted brilliant stroke
which the Canadians dealt when il
came their turn to play their part
In the colossal plan of tho Somme
offensive. In other words. General
Byng understood that given goal the
men of North America would go to It
with all the energy in them. ready
to take a. pinch hit chance.
The correspondent went over the
ground to-day where they went to il
and saw where they stuck in trenches
under shellfire which they had gained
after their second charge and which
were not in the original plan. The
night before the battle the officer in
charge of that branch of tho front