The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-23
OBy the Associated Pressl


Nov. 22.-tThursday).-Th success OF
the British arms in the Cambria sector
has continued to grow steadily. ana
Field Marshal Haig's troops i'm a little
more than two days fighting have
overrun an area equal in size to tnat
won by the Germans during the first
fifteen days of their spectacular Dive
on Verdun.
British cavalry. tanks and infantry
today were battling their way forward
along a line which at many points west
and southwest of Cambria was less tha1
three miles from that important town.
The advance was spreading north
ward in the region of Bullecourt. and
the salient toward Cambria was being
widened.
Prisoners Near 5000.
Total of prisoners must approach the
5000 mark
At last. the British and Germans are
at grips on comparatively open grouLd
and some of the fercest hand-to-hand
fighting Of the war has been going on
The enemy troops We're unprepared
for the attack, but they have been
putting every ounce OF their strength
into an attempt to stem the rising tide.
Troops have been pulled away from
other points and rushed TO the Cam.
brai sector by the desperate Germans,
and so hard-pressed were they for men
that two companies of cripples and con
yalescents were recruited hastily at one
camp and thrown into the line in the
region of Masnieres.
Some of these pitiful objects are in
British hands and are receiving medical
treatment
one prisoner was in the last stages
Of tuberculosis, and he had to be moved
to prevent the disease from spreading
to the others, who were in a state of
cruel exhaustion and virtually helpless
from their valiant attempts to fight
under the lash of their unrelenting Of
ficers.
Great Battle i'm Open.
The great battlefield has taken on the
aspect of scenes in wars gone by No
longer "A conflict of trenches and shell
holes, but of men struggling. bitterly
with rifles and bayonets over a virgin
battle ground, while the long neglected
cavairy sweeps in picturesque charges
against the enemy positions over the
wide territory involved.
The roads everywhere for two days
have been swarming with advancing
troops and with prisoners and civilians
coming back from the front. Many re-
joicing non-combatants, men. women
and children, have been pouring out
of the captured towns under the guild
ance of their deliverers from German
bondage.
This has been a battle OF strange
sights. but no more striking spectacle
has been witnessed than that of the
people marching toward homes and
comfort back of the British front.
Back Through the Gaps.
Through the very gaps which the
tanks had torn in the famous Hinden.
burg line. mothers yesterday and today
We're pushing baby carriages containing
infants or tramping happily along with
their babies ciutched to their breasts. .
Beside them toddled other youngsters.
many of them carrying their treasured I;
dolls and not few clinging to squirm-
ing puppies. Old men and women were
bringing away all the household ef- |
fects they could pack ON push carts |
or carry on their backs.
For three years they had been in |
captivity. and some of them in slavery. |
They had been subsisting on the bounty |
of the American relief committee. which |
furnished them virtually the only food
they obtained.
Hard fighting has taken place today |
at Crevecoeur. southeast of Masnieres. |
The British were holding a high ridge !
in front OF this place and some troops |
had forced an entrance into the west.
ern part of this town.
Cavalrymen Take Battery.
The Germans Were holding the east
ern section. German battery. here.
which had been giving trouble. was
charged and captured by dismounted