Arizona republican., 1916-08-21
fReputliean A. p. Leased wirel

WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE Aug. l9, (Via London, Aug. 20l-What two battaliOns did and how they did it. was the most thrill ling incident of the last "A hours of sensational fighting from the Ancre to the Somme. The struggle went on in freakish August weather with ;d ternate cloudbursts and flashes of lightning. rainbows and sunshine.
 All along the line from the south of the Ancre the British left their trenches while the French were hard at it on their right. The time chosen Was five o'clock yesterday afternoon while the big attacks of July 1 and li were in the early morning
 Two battalions were on the left with more guns to help them, prob ably. than any two battalions that ever made a charge. One hundred cannon were engaged in making a curtain of fire on their front while other were busy with other details of the staff plan. Nothing in the whole offensive was so dramatically staged or cuIi== off with greater sue cess
 The Germans still held on in their old first line trenches. where their machine guns brought Up from un- destroyed dugouts held out the Brit ish on July while the British right swung on this section as pivot through ContalmaisOn and PoZieres to the summit Of the ridge. burTOughing forward as the guns blasted away.
 Sharper and sharper grew the angle of the new British line to the old German first line, until On the map it looked impossible for troops to sur viye in such a salient. Nevertheless. The Germans stuck to ttose elaborate defenses of nearly two vears' prep aratiOn with dugouts thirty or forty feet under ground. reveted travesses and every other detail Of nrotection asainst all kinds of fire which army staffs can devise or labor build.
 Through galleries running from dugout Co iugout tte Germans had ruhway of bringing up reliefs and food.
 They led a regular fife Al night those not on guard went to bed in their cellar hunks as comfoTtabiv as in Pullmans ard during the day they plaved cards when not sent out into ehell craters to snipe the British. They had their machine guns ready ns before should the British attempt to rush their homes
 Yesterday afternoon the British guns were poundine away as usual at this sector which is called the Leipzig redoubt. when the British thanks to a new system for taking ca-e If machine guns and with q quick burst of artillery preparation. covering their charge, appeared on the jump through the doors of their dugOuts.
 Through glasses thev were visible Co observers running about the maze of traverses like terriers searching for ratholes. their bayonets gleaming and puffs of smoke rising as they threw their bombs
 In one capscious dugout equipped with beds. tables and cupbOards. six officers and 170 men surrendered in a body and were marched out after the manner Of a crowd caught i'll :, gambling house raided by the police Some managed to escape from theiI dugouts by underground galleries others who could not escape though surrounded. tried te man their ma chine guns and were shot down. Stil others fought to the death with bayo- nets and bombs. IL Is estimated the 1000 Germans caught in this trap bS less than their own number, were ac- counted for.
 When the Associated Press cdrre
  twelve officers and 500 Germans has been brought in as prisoners whil' more were being uncarthed iron their hiding places. The last of th' small parties which held out with 2 ring of British around them, in brie but fcrOcious seiges. were surrender ing. They had hoped for a counter attack To rescue them but the Britisi had foreseen this and met it witl blasts from artillery and machin guns they had immediately rut il position for that purpose
 The prisoners who the correspon dent saw were of the 29th Prussial regiment and were of the sturdies German soldier type much superio 10 those of the Eleventh division wh became disorganized and surrendere freely in front of Pozieres recently They looked well and their uniform show few of the usual effects 0 trench strugglse Some of ther laughed over the manner in whic they had been trapped and the were generally very happy for the had heard what had happened { those who had tried to resist in sue a hopeless situation.
 Elsewhere the story was of man trenches gained with some lost the relentless action throughout in night, the infantry laboring in th moist earth fighting for the posses sion of Water-logged shell crater while the artilleryis's keut at the