The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-03
BRITISH FIGHTING HARD
FOR EACH INCH OF GROUND

With the British Army in the Field
July 81. (via Londom. Aug. 1.-French
and British soldiers made an attack in
today's SWeltcring midsummer heat
The first real hot wave of the season
struck northern France last night and
this morning British and French in
fantry cooperated in an action north of
the Somme. in front of Guiilemont and
Maurepas.
For the last few days the one word
on everybody's tongue has been WISH
bility which has come into universal
use since Admiral Jellico's first fleet
dispatch. Formerly artillerymen spoke
of good and bad light. Persistent bad
light or low visibility which did not
permit the gunners to register their
targets had delayed any important in
fantry action. Yesterday the light be-
came better as the heat grew tropio
and offensive operations We're renewed
Five Men to the Yard.
Every day the Germans have been
ncreaslng the number of guns and men
in the Guiliemont sector. which is
among the last portions of high ground
they hold. BY prisoners taken 10
German battalions, or 10000 men, have
been identified on a front of 1000 yards
where the Germans are still in their
Old second line Notifications with maze
trenches and deep dugouts built long
ago and strengthened since the often
Sive begun. The Germans appear to re-
guard this sector Of critical Importance
since the British broke the second line
on the adjoining front for length Of
two miles on July IA.
Part of the British attack struck
from the bloody Trones wood and the
other part on the flank, while the Ger
mans tried to man machine guns as
usual after British bombardment. The
Germans resisted the British bitterly,
10 a
every inch of ground was precious.
INC British got possession of the
railway station, which they had
reached in >. previous attack and this
time, according to last reports. are still
holding it. Some of the attackers got
into Guillemont and cached the church
where the Germans, swarming in dug
outs outnUmbered the advance party
which fought against foes on all sides.
1t was one of those hand to hand and
hide and seek conflicts in the village
ruins of indcscribable ferocity. The
British had to retire from the edge Of
Guiliemont, but made considerable
advance southwark on the flank of the
town, where, through the hot night of
fighting. they continued to maintain
their gain.
Heat Is Terrific.
Perspiration made water courses in
the dust on mems faces today and their
eyes doomed out through masks so thick
that their faces seemed to be covered
with some kind of armor Motor trucks
passed like phantoms in thick clouds of
dust on the road. Gunners, stripped to
their skin, Kept on serving their guns
at top speed. Breathing came hard in
the mtxturs of dust and shell smoke
Soldiers who reached Guillemont
spoke of the fearful carnage among the
Germans from the British gun fire, ow-
ing to the Germans concentrated under
the British bombardment for the in
fartry attacks. They said they could
hear the nouns of the German wound
ed for water above the booming of ri
file and machine gun fire. With the
news of the shooting Of Captain Fryatt
fresh in their minds. the British went
into the charge in fury, swearing they
would averge his death.