New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-21

but the British had foreseen this and
met it with blasts from artillery and
machine guns they had Immediately
put in position for that purpose.
The prisoners whom the correspond
ent saw were Of the goth Prussian
Regiment and were Of the sturdiest
German soldier type, much superior
10 those of the 18th Division. who be-
came disorganized and surrendered
freely in front of Pozieres recently.
They looked we'll and their uniforms
showed few of the usual effects of
trench struggles. Some of them
laughed over the manner in which they
had been trapped, and they were gem
orally very happy, for they had heard
what had happened to those who had
tried to resist in such q hopeless stu
alton. "
Elsewhere the story was Of many
trenches gained, with some lost, and
relentless action throughout the night,
the infantry laboring in the moist
earth, fighting for the possession of
waterlogged shell craters, while the ar
tillerists kept at their work, hot gun
barrels sizzling from the rain.
Once when the British troops, caught
by machine gun fire, had to yield a po-
sition and found a counter attack de-
veloping, twenty seconds after their
S o S signal to the artillery command
er guns were trained on that counter
attack with curtain of fire that sent
| il TO cover.
In the centre the British have pushed
closer to Martinpuich and taken an
/ orchard west of Delville Wood, but the
hottest work probably was on the right
Here the Germans kept on reinforcing
and their guns never forgot Longueval
| If they had any extra ammunition they
seemed to turn il on the massed wreck.
! age of that unfortunate village. The
! British are equally interested in max.
ing sure that no remaining bricks OF
Guillemont escape the attention OF
| their artillery.
I Small bodies Of British have been Ia
| Guillemont, but found it no place ia
remain in the face of the fire the Ger.
mans concentrated on it. The Germans
were insistent on keeping stone
quarry on the edge of the town, but
after a hand-to-hand argument which
lasted many hours the British took and
kept it.
Aeros Direct Gunfire.
South Of Guillemont the British were
well forward of the yillage when aero
plane observers saw big forces of Ger
mans moving forward in counter at
tack. There was another hurry call TO
the guns, of course, and they wiped out
the first two lines of the advancing
waves. The rest of the Germans took
cover in a ravine. Following il they
| debouched and under the protection OF
their artillery struck the French left
which remained in an angle of woods
forcing the British to yield some Of the
ground taken.
The British now have Guillemont
pretty we'll in the pinchers and are
closing in on Ginchy, the position be-
yond, thanks particularly TO action in
! the direction of what might be called
the beverage" sector, where, as the
British soldiers say. "all drinks are
served hot" There, as usual, they
have given the neighboring German
trenches the names occurring to them,
which happen to be Beer Alley" GALE
Street" Cocoa Lane" Coffee Boule-
ward" and the like.
Striking out from Delville Wood af-
ter hard rough-and-tumble fighting,
they gained a foothold 500 or 400 yards
from Ginchy.
The French capture of Maurepas,
which was most stubbornly defended,
was source of qualification TO the
British, who express themselves as
more than satisfied with Yesterday
and Fridays work in the step-by-step
offensive.