The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-23
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will serve to make it untenable for
the enemy. French refugees from
nearby villages declared today cam
brai had long served as one of the
distributing centers Tor munltlon'
| troops and supplies of every character,
being one of the vital links IN Ine
! German chain of communications. Inc
! full scope of the British V1ctory anu
with what minute care and palnstah :.
| ing attention to detail the British stan
worked out the problem OF the attack
We're made increasingly apparent To-
day.
Semi-official dispatches for instnce,
told Of new records made IN highway
and railway building by engineers IN
keeping up the constant flow OF mu-
nitions and supplies to the rapluiy au,
vancing troops. Miles upon miles Oh
broad and narrow gauge tracks were
laid. The construction corps In many
instances worked almost directly pc
hind the moppers-up and German prls,
oners with their arms still upralseu
while they echoed "kamerad" saw the
British track layers methodically ana
rapidly showing the lines along. Ineir
achievements enabled the British guns
to keep up almost with the infantry
with the move forward.
Very Few Casualties.
TBy William Philip Simms, United
Press Staff Correspondent
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES in
THE FIELD, Nov. 23.-Englands
master stroke against Cambria was
carried through to victory with an
almost incredibly small casualty llsl.
The total Of German prisoners taH-
en- today reached the point where IL
exceeded by several thousand the
whole of the British losses in killed.
wounded and missing.
Machinery saved the British thous-
ands OF lives Use Of tanks to batter
down entanglements instead OF artli'
lery and the surprise nature OF the
British blow meant practlcaliy no
retaliatory barrage fire. When the
Germans did get their shell screen
working, the missiles did not NOW
down infantrymen. They ratified for
the most part harmlessly off the steel
Jackets of the tanks. There were
also the life saving machinery OF the
British supply systematic war ma
chine which kept constructing yard
after yard of supply railways as yard
after yard Of ground was taken by
the British.
Back still farther behind the lines
was the gigantic machinery which en-
abled Haig and Byng to mass en-
ormous forces OF men and war para
phernalia with the speed necessary to
carry through their plans for sur.
prise attack.
I'M 30 r,r-icN n
back lines, was undated today while
hot fighting went on up front Tanks,
cavalry and infantry were all In
action. The enemy has now collect
ed great forces of reserves and these
were striving today to press back
the pincers which the tommies are
squeezing around Cambria.
Joyful French civilians from Ger
man-occupied towns, now repatriated
by the British blow, were being trans
ported to rear lines by motor lorry
today Most Of the refugees had been
concentrated at Masnieres. All de-
clared that practically all the food
they had eaten in months had been
that furnished by the American re-
lief commission. If this had not been
forthcoming, they said. they would
have starved.
So many of these refugees were
freed by the British stroke that
special arrangements had to be made
at rear depots for their transfer.
Load after load of them were
brought to railway stations in motor
lorries, under care of British tommies
who were embarrassed by their af-
fectioinate and extravagant demon
STATIONS Of gratitude. No French
men of military age were included in
the groups-all were old men or chill
dren.
French Win in Fog.
r. Nv Tinted bragg Staff