The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-24
Heavy Hand-to-Hand Fighting
Follows German Counter
Attacks in Mass Formations
TOWN is STRIPPED
OF MILITARY STORES
French Civilians Pour Out of
Towns Released From Co.
cupation of Huns-~Estimatcd
10000 Troops in Attack

London. Nov, 2s.--Byng was MAIDS
Z full fedged general today by Ktns
George, He celebrated his promotion
by resuuling his Cambria drive and
hammerins away at the Teutons all
day, making new gains. simultane-
ously Cir Douglas Haig delivered a
successful local blow on the Flanders
front.
The Germans, at last fully recover
ed from the big tank surprise blow.
have been and are. rushing reserves
from every direction TO the Can1brsi
front and are trying. in fury winged
counter -thrusts, to save the town. "A
fierce hand-to- Ia nd slaughter all aIors
the line is the result. Throughopt
the day a. terrible house-to- house bat
tie ragged IN Cartains southwest Of
Cam brai. and when'dusk settled upon
the battlefield the carnage was stiH IN
fun swing.
Today's British gains were local.
out important strategicaliy Their
chief advance was on the slopes OF
Tadpoie copse. a ridge dominating
much OF the Canal du Nord as wei
as the sreet-r-rart or me Village cf
Moeuvres. on the Northern tip Of the
British wedge. west of Cambraf.
Berlin officially reiterated it's claim
today that the attempt to break
had failed The German
the village OF Tafontaine Notre Dame.
the point nearest to Carnbrai, the less
OF which was admitted by the British,
war office last night.
IAFolie wood also was retaken bv
the Teutons, according TO the Berlin
war Office. whose account speaks Of
heavy British loses In renewed fruit
less' attacks.
Grip Fixed ON Cambria
The outstanding result OF General
BynE's drive, however, which Berlin
could not and did not deny. is that
the British have gained fatal girls
on Cambria. their sfnes three mites u
the southwest OF the town having
stood firm against all Teuton counter
blows.
Church bells in London peaIed an
inspiring victory chant today. Tho
ripping to pieces OF the Hirdenburg
line, coupled with General Allenby's
victories in Palestine. called for this
mode of celebration for the first time
in the war in Great Britain The
British public is jubilant.
Evidently realizing the futility OF
maintaining CamtTaf as a. bask this
Germans today began TO strip ths
town of its military stores.
British artillery now being moved
UP into the conquered positions Ii ex-
pected TO unloose terrific lombard
ment on the town shortly.
The Germans were centerinx their
gunfre today on the British lines
around Cantaign and Bourbon wood.
the southern side of the British ve6ge
toward Cambria the object being to
crush in the salient by a terrific con-
centraticn OF enhlsding IRE. Mean
while the British. fully holding THAR
own on that side, extended their posi-
tions on the northern edge by captur~
ing Tadpole copse. to the ives. OF
Moeuvres. Bitter handto- hand fight
ing preceded this new success.
The fresh reserves brought up by
the Bavarian crown prince are being
thrown into the fray in massed forn7A-
tion, with utter disregard for the cost
In blood Some OF these reinforce
ments came from the Lena area None
were evidently drawn from the F1an.
ders front. the Teutons fully realizinE
the dangers arising from HaiE's sue
cesses there this year.
Teutons Keep Men i'm Flanders.
This is shown by reference in An
article by the military expert OF the
Berlin Lokal An1eiger, who. after
triumphantly asserting that the Brit
ish Cambrai drive, collapsed entirely"
says the offensive there, ''will not
prompt the German high command to
thin the line In Flanders where the
enemy is Certain to renew his efforts,
which .now have become n necessity In
order to rid himself OF the U-hoat bases
which are SO dangerous to him.
German military writer's today also
FASTENED to assert that General Byng,a
drive will not affect the situation In
Italy in the slightest degree"
In British military and political
quarters, however. the opposite view
prevails. The conviction was smphati-
cally expressed tonight that the Cam.
brai drive viii have momentous con.
sequences favorable to the allied plans.
Sir Douglas Haig's day bulletin Wa
brief. 1t declared the situation south
west Of Cambria unchanged" and re-
corded slight advance to the south :
east of Ypres. German lids In the 81
Quentin area. south of the Cambraf
sector, were beaten on.
Front despa tches point out that the
British took In two days hyhting ~
much ground as the Germans dfd IN
the hrst two weeks on their yerdun
drive.
Fighting is developing more and
more In the open.
French civilians. men. women and
children. today poured out OF the fowne
and villages released from German 90
cupstion by BynRs push. TINY ara
being well cared for by the British.
A German semi-ofsiciai review today