Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-16
CAVALRY GETS ITS FIRST J
CHANCE IN MANY MONTHS
Dragon Guards Charge With
Lances, as in Days of Ma 4.
poleonic Wars. 4
sHELLING vERDUN TRENCHES
Paris Reports Heavy Artillery En-
gagement on the Meuse-
by Germans on Belgian
Front Repulsed.

LONDON, July 16, II ::4Op.m.-
Further important successes" on
the German second line have
been gained by the British, ac-
cording to the official communi-
cation issued at midnight. The
British captured the whole of
Delville wood and repulsed a
strong counter attack. The text
reads:
Heavy Fighting All Day.
Heavy fighting continued all day in
the Pozieres-Guillemont sector of the
German second line. as a result of
which further important successes
have been gained by our troops.
East Of Longueval. despite the ene-
my's desperate resistance. we captured
the whole Of Delville wood and re-
pulsed a strong counter attack. with
severe losses to the enemy.
North Of Bazentin-le-Grand our
troops penetrated the German third
line at the Bois de Faureaux, in which
we obtained 1odgment. In this neigh
borhood a de-cchment of the enemy
was successful accounted for by
squadron Of Dragon Guards-the first
opportunity for mounted action afford
ed the cavalry since 1914.
Counter Attacks Repulsed.
West of Bazentin-le-Grand we cap
tured the whole wood of that name
and repulsed two counter attacks.
Here. with other prisoners. we cap
tured the commander of a Bavarian
regiment with his whole staff.
East of Ovillers further advance
has been made and our troops have
fought their way to the outskirts Of
Pozieres.
During the last rty-eight hours our
aeroplanes have been much hampered
the whole of the 14th the clouds were
seldom at higher altitude than 500
feet. Despite this drawback much val
liable work was done.
IN one OF our oomplng RAIDS an
enemy train was derailed and a coach
overturned, while in the aerial COM
bats in the last twenty-four hours we
destroyed three Fokkers, three biplanes
and a double-engined aeroplane and
forced another Fokker to land in a
damaged condition. All our machines
returned safely to our lines"
Cavalry Gets a Chance.
BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE. July
Is. p.m., via London.-After tho
breach was made in the second German
line yesterday, cavalry detachments.
English and Indian. for the first time
had the reward of their years wait
since trench warfare began. They
went straight in the face of the Ger
mans, who were forming a new de-
Tense line between the strong points of
High wood and Delville wood. which
the British infantry was attacking.
1t was 1880 in the evening when they
were awaiting orders to cross the fields.
after their patrols had felt the way,
with clear going ahead. and behind
them to demolished trenches of the
shell holes. which made difficult their
progress to their rendezvous. Infan-
trymen who witnessed the sight could
hardly believe their eyes.
rifles. which are virtually portable ma
chine guns, blazed from a wheat field,
the Dragon Guards set their lances
and charged, wheeled and rode back
through them, as might have been done
in the Napoleonic wars.
Germans Remember Drill.
Thus, for the first time in eighteen
months of continuous warfare on the.
western front, with it's continuous bay
oneting, bombing, gassing and she'll
ing, an enemy was impaled from a
horse The surviving Germans, who
had not forgotten their drill, tried to
receive the horsemen in their sweep.
back, with the bayonet
At another point, as the cavalry
swept across the wheat fields, the sur
prise of the Germans was as manifest
as If some apparition had appeared.
The cavalry went ahead until they
found the infantry had not yet taken
Delville and High wood. and were sig
nailed to fall back and dig in until re-
Meved by the infantry. They brought
back more than thirty prisoners-the
survivors after their charges.
At one time, when a machine gun
was troubling them. a British aviator
in a monoplane. flying at a height of
three hundred feet, cfrcled four times
as he poured the contents of his ma
chine gun into the Germans.
One division, whose loss was only
one man in the capture of section of
the second line on it's front was not
SO happy as the cavalrymen. who at
last had seen action.
ofhcial French Report.
PARIS. July Is. lo:4o p.m.-The ON
cfal communication issued by the war