Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-05
British Charge Forward in
Irresistible Drive Over
Terrain Long Held
by Enemy.
ALL DETECTIVES GAINED
Germans Are Slaughtered
in Vain Attempts to
Regain Trenches.

LONDON, Oct. 4.-Today
was lifted the veil of secrecy
which for more than a week
has been hanging over the
Flanders front, and to the
anxious gaze of the world was
exposed a battlefield eight
miles long and two miles deep
over which the British had
charged and driven back the
Germans from terrain they
had held for nearly three
years.
At some places the British
had penetrated to a depth of
two miles and had overrun the
crest of the ridges which the
Germans had held so long.
Hundreds of Germans were
surrendering at an early hour.
SWeep FOrlpard in North
On the northern wing the
onrushing troops are battling
forward within a short dis
tance of Poelcapelle; they have
footing on the famous Grav-
enstafel ridge which juts out
from Passchendaele ridge to
the west and have crashed
their way thru the blood.
drenched Zonnebeke Brood
seide ridge which forms an in
tegral part of the Passchen-
daele-G -Gheluvelti chain.
Between the village of
Broodseide on the north and
Noordenhoek, a mile to the
south, they were holding to
the crest of the ridge itself in
the face of heavy counterat-
tacks from the desperate
enemy. Some had penetrated
well beyond the hamlet of
Broodseide in which lie the
crossroads formed by the high
ways between Zonnebeke and
Moorslede and Passchendaele
and Becelaere, where so many
Germans have recently given
their lives to swell the toll
claimed by the British artil-
lery.
Further south Cameron CO.
vert, which has been the scene
of so much hard fighting, has
been left well in the rear.
Successful EUeryWhere
Everywhere the British arms
have done splendidly in the
opening hours of the often
sive which is one of the most
pretentious attempted along
this front.
AS in the preceding attacks the
latest one was timed to the minute.
The British forces at the given signal
at daylight swarmed from their
trenches over ground that had been
narrowed by myriads OF shells from
the great array OF artillery and all
along the front OF more than eight
miles, from south of Tower Hamlets
to the north of Langemarck, they
made notable new gains OF terrain,
inflicted heavy casualties on the Ger
mans while themselves suffering slight
losses and took many prisoners, large
numbers OF whom gladly surrendered
in order to reach a haven of safety
from the maelstrom.
Delivered With Dash.
The attack was delivered with all
the dash of previous offensives and
swiftly and surely the Britishers, not
withstandlng previous counterattacks
at various points, took positions that
had been marked out for them, somu
OF them to dSpth OF more than a
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