Arizona republican., 1916-09-17
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 WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, Sept. 1G tVia London. Sept 17)-With ceaseless shell fire from unprecedented concentration Of guns the battle ragged furiously all day. with the British making good then advance of yesterday. while the Ger mans were rushing up reserves from other parts of the western front.
 The demoralization of their infantry yesterday by the use Of the new ar mored motor cars called tanks were freely confessed by prisoners wiih whom the correspondent of the As sociated Press talked today.
 There was no standing against that sort of thing" said one German of ficer.
 -'Of course We surrendered-thoseo oi us who were alive. We fired at q tank with our rifles. our machint guns turned loose on it. But the bull lets were only blue sparks on the armor. We thought the British slow and stupid. despite their courage ano stubboInness and they gave us q sur prise ike this"
 4 column of German prisoner, pa ssing a tank rejoicing in the nick
 
 hal returned from the battle and was resting from its labors. spread ou, their hands and shook their heads as they looked at il. exclaiming in | chorus: "Mein Gott i'm Himmel. 1t r. under control; il won't break out ant hegin firing again. We will neVe: forget our first sight Of the thing a. 2 it came at us out of the morning |, mist. It isn't war. piece of machinery like that: 1t Is butchery."
 To this a British officer replied: | "No it is quite peaceable and tam' nom. IL has just been fed. As for i not being war it is quite in keepini with The Hague convention while th' gas attack at Yprcs was not"
 In such an action as that of yes terday, the correspondent. though h. has freedom of fhe field and Is in formed of the plan of attack the nigh before. and although he disregard sleep he finds it difficult to get : full report of the results so that h. can send a dispatch the same night
 But moving about the lines iron headquarters of the different unit of command up to the point wher the wounded and the prisoners ar being brought in in fresh orgy 0 1 str1g. hearing innumerable account as vivid as the red spots on whit handages and piercing bits of infor nation together before sitting dow to write his cable. there seems n question but that yesterday was th most dramatic day in the history u the British army in France.
 The Germans themselves Wer massing at several points, 1t appear with view of attempting attacks t recover some high ground they lost Tho British anticipated the Germa attack with their own onslaughts as sisted by their new hell machine whose secret they had been keepin ap their sleeves for such an occasio as this.
 The account of both the wounde kRritish soldiers and the prisoner taken from all parts of the line, agre that the Geiman losses were immense As a rule the forces in the front lin trenches supported patrols in the she | craters in the Somme battle area l small numbers with a plentiful suppl of machine guns. This means a smal Ter force exposed to artillery concen :rafion in case of attacks.
 With the machine guns silenced an the front trench taken, the reserve ! expected under cover of the artiller !, fire on their side to retake 1t D counter attacks Thus the German intended to attack. They had masse large numbers of men in their froT ' trenches. These were not only eaugi by the surprise of the sudden bla:
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