El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-06

ONION. Eng. July 5.-Near Thiep-
val. on the Somme front, we made
- a further slight advance and cap
tlLred a number Of prisoners. the war
ofn4 announced today.
-Stuth Of La Bassee canal. after the
discharge OF gas and smoke. we made
some successful raids into the enemy >
first line In one Of these the Royal
welsh Fusiliers especially distin-
euished- themselves capturing 30 pris-
oners. a trench mortar and a machine
gun"
Gin another raid the Highland Ligh-
usanfa atry successfully entered the enc
mys trenches west Of Hulluch- A ma
chine gun emplacement was destroyed
many Germsa rs were killed and some
prisoners were taken
There was no change or LnpoI lance
|-orkche rest Of the front
Fighting BattnIions Relieved
Press Camp, British Army in France,
july 6.-BattaliOns which have been
fighting since the battle Degun now
have been relieved from the 'front.' line
. and are in billets in quiet villages or
4 towns free from the SOUND OF shell
blasts or cracking bullets Answering
questions as TO what they wanted most
{7rhsta relieved. they invariably an
E.
..Every battalion Is proud Of keeping
Tits formation until the first line Of the
German trenches was reached and %
the fact that the new army made good.
/ One battalion with whose officers the
. correspondents talked. met machine
gun fire and lost half OF its Officers
and men before reaching the first line
trenches but fought its way on another
Thousand Yards TO an objective set for
70. where il entrenched and maintained
"a
battSlion served out biscuits and half
bsttle CO soda water to each man
From supplies found IN the German
iugouts- The British who had sub
Sisted on their travel ratiOns for the
First few days in some instances were
saved from shortage by the German "a
ions which escaped destruction by
HELL fire These included canned Ger
nan beef which was found TO be good
German Troops Well Fed.
Talks with prisoners generally re-
ealAi that the German soldiers have
God while letters from their homes in
very part OF Germany indicate priva-
ions Of the civilian population
Asked what he thought of the great
naval battle, one prisoner said ne never
beaDd Of it. Another said fresh eggs
~ been a great luxury in the Ger
imam army and that q basket OF jam
bad just arrived and the Germans in
.slis trench We're feasting their hungry
.eyes upon II. when a British hOwitzer
made a direct hit One British officer
found his favorite brand Of cigars in
a German officers dugout-
Many Of the prisoners asked the
Hsame question as do the British SOL
Idiers- Has the British army enough
shells 10 keep UP such bOmbardmeuts
as that Of last week.
Ulster Division Courageous
TIE story Of the Ulster division in
the first days battle Of the Anglo
French offensive is now accessible It
had one Of the most terrible parts OF
the difficult attack in the northern
section OF the offensive Its trenches
were disadvantag eously located on
ground facing a ridge where the Ger
Enan batteries had an enfilading fire
shout NO Surrender
Through curtains Of shrapnel fire.
u - face Of machine guns and under
nfilading fire from machine guns in
village. the division captured the
irst German line, shouting No
surrender" and Remember the Boyne."
and started for the second line. Stil
".1nder cross fire and every kind Of shell
Hire. the troops OF the Ulster division
continued on until they gained a strong
redOubC on the summit OF the ridge
ATheTe those who had survived dug in
1-G(nst German counter attacks and
machine gun and rifle fire from two
sides, they held on. until they had no
more bombs or cartridges.
Hopelessly shut off from further
supplies by German curtains Of shell
ISsre. they had TO fail back, bringing
~ prisoners to the German first line
.os II trenches passing through curtains
. Of, fire 10 do So Here they established
themselves and. stuck until help came.
An English battalion from Yorkshire
and Lancashire. caught in the same
fashion. so far as known. fought almost
TO the last man. in holding the Germans
north Of the Ancre. while battalions
further south made uniform progress
Kitchener Men show Calamity.
~ reports OF prisoners agree that
the Germans expected the real center
of attack would be north Of the Ancre.
Regular army officers say that moth
ling in the annals OF the guards or Of
any other regular regiments in the
battle of Tpres or in the history Of
the British army surpasses the gal
lantry Of these Kitchener battalions
which kept pressing on towards the
objective set for them when half OF
#1heiC numbers were down.