Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-07

showed the correspondent the Cana
dian objective. They gained their
first objective in an uninterrupted
dash, absolutely on time. There was
| the trench which the "Byng boys
| held on the morning of the fifteenth,
as the correspondent saw it to-day.
! Behind it and ahead of it shell craters
were so thick that you could step from
one to another. Having taken their
| objective their part was finished but
General Byng decided, despite the
complicated time table methods of a
modern offensive. that he could go
further. The commanders of British
corps OF all kinds, from cockneys to
the clerks. stocks brokers and farm
hands of the new army, made the
same decision. So they worked in
conjunction as everything in these big
moves must be cooperation and team
| play.
They Got There
:. When the word was given the Cana
dams started for Courcelettc which
they were ordered to take. Now the
ulllage mad been less crumpled" than
! any yet captured. There were some
rafters of roofs still in. position.
! Through these streets to their new OBJ
Jective, marked on their map, when
| these fighters of the new world. in
cludtng men from as far South as New
orleans as well as men from Nova
| SCOTIA and Vancouver. They were de-
termined to get there and make good
and they got there
When no word came back for some
time the staff sitting in the center of
| the web of telephone and telegraph
wires over which was flashed the news
| OF the progress of the great battle.
began to wonder if the Canadians
We're in trouble. But presently they
got word that the charge had swept
! beyond the village and that the Cana
dlans had been so busy digging in they
had not had time to send news. 1t
was explained that they thought that
it would be taken for granted that
they had got to it,
Among those who made good" saw
| those who are supposed to know the
facts. was battalion of French Cana
dams the kind of men you see in
times of peace working their farms
IN quebec or bending over the benches
| or factory in New England At one
| place in the village the attackers were
! held up for time by strongly forti-
! fled post which bristled with machine
guns. Well" as one officer said I'VE
did not have to tell the men what to
do. They stalked that strong point,
| man TO man. moving around it, and
| got in"
Called "Tank" Offensive
Among the men marching hack
I from the front line after relief was n
! tall soldier with high check bones, red
skin, ebony hair and expressionless
features He was an American of the
| Sioux type. THE German is some
| fighter" said one Canadian, to con-
| clude the story, ''and he has been
| learning the game for long time, but
on this occasion we had him going"
But the exploit of the Canadians is
only one of the many chapters which
/ hn fnI NF u. 4
| have morosely called "the tank often
| slve,' having reference to the new ar
| mored motor cans. There was a Lon
! don division. comprising representa-
tives of all classes of the great city's
life, who We're told that they must
| reach their objective in a given time.
And Tanks Did the Work
| In front of them in High wood was
fastness of machine guns which
neither the artillery nor the trench
mortars had been able to reduce. How
ever, 1t was the business of the Lon
doners to be on time in reaching the
given point on the man and to hold
on there until further notice. These
| orders were all very simple and di
rect said one OF the Londoners after
ward with q grim SMILE "but those
| Germans In the fort knew that IT was
| a life and death fight and all that was
| required OF them was to put their fin
4
guns when we charged We left it to
the blooming tank We had to take
chances of those machine guns shoot
ing into our backs if the tanks could
not do the job. But orders were or
ders as we were taught when we left
our happy homes to go soldering in
| France. and we had to reach that on
| the map. We reached it and the tanks
wiped out tho machine errs"
New Zcalanders Got There
Then there were the New Zealand
| ers. They are known from the Aus
tralians by the colored band around
their campaign hats. The New Zea-
landers also had their orders of the
| "po there and stay there" kind Thew
went and later on the situation was
| such thew wore warned that thev rnu-t
try and hold against a heavy counter
attack. The staff wondered If thev
| could
Out of the clouds of shell smoke in
which bullets and fragments of steel
screamed and whistled 1t was as diff.
cult to CLEAN information as It would
be to learn what a man in the next
/ block was doing in an earthquake
Finally word came back. 1--WE have
stopped counter attack and taken some
more ground and are going to hold
It." This cheered the STAFF and much
of the sight of the columns of German