Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-03

struggle against rnassed reserves Of the
enemy. who tried 10 bear them down by
weight OF numbers. by superiority OF
machine-gun-fre. and by fierce counter
attacks forced hard by men brought
fresh into this internal struggle.
Against the Canadians and English
divisions on their left the Germans now
have nine divisions reinforcing those
mentioned In other messages, the First
Guard reserve and Eighteenth Reserve
divisions. with thirteen markSmen de-
tnchmenis and artillery OF thirteen d.
visions. and machine-gun strength, Civ
ing them -four light and four heavy ma
chine gums to each camp front-a strong
sweep Of Are IN close-range fighting.
An dav Tuesday there was a cease
less and severe struggle on both sides.
and after the CANADIAN attack in the
early morning. when they gained ground
nj Families. Cuvillers, and Blecour'
and entered Morenchies and Arancourt
the Germans CONGRATULATED again and
again with almost fanatical courage.
They advanced in close formation
down the valleys Of Bantigy n Raj
lencourt and were seen Ivy Canadian OBJ
servers who called to the Canadian
guns. our artillery had human targets
al short range and fred for hours with
open sights.
shell. Rake German Ranks
Their shells raked the German ranks.
tore cans i'm them and laid Out men In
.heaps, Others came up to take their
struggle on to break the Canadian lines,
and again the guns took them for their
targets and killed large numbers OF
them. There was q massacre Of men in
- . IL a..., s.aARa
served until they were too hot to fire,
hut still, under cover Of sunken roads
and ~embankment cuttings. the German
infantry made their way. regardless of
all costs. and forced a passage into
some OF the ruined villages which the
Canadians had captured that morning
by most r~esolute spirit, though many Of
their comrades fell. and succeeded in
making some OF the Canadian battalions
fall back to the outskirts of those places.
one party of Canadians was isolated
near Cuvillers and was in a most peri
lous situation for some hours, but had
no thought of surrender and held to
its ground, and and obtained touch with
its main line before the day was done.
All the Canadians say the number of
Germans dead strewn about this ground
il horrible to see. bur they have taken
IllS lpil OF lit tltllN ~ "it'ONA pay
ing a severe price themselves for the
ground they still hold. and after all
their days Of fighting since their first
clorious advance south Of Amiens on
Angus 3, their present actions are a
marvellous achievement.
on the south side of Cambria the
English, Scottish and Irish troops, with
New Zealanders to'the south of them by
Crevecoeur. had a hard day also. but
made further progress yesterday morn
ing.
II was our Sixty-third Naval Division,
with the Fifty-seventh. who on Sunday
asst secured the bridEeheads across the
Scheldt canal at Novelties and north and
south OF Novelties. 1t was a desperate
enterprise. only done by the eXtraordi-
nary heroism of simple sailors and young
officers and. noncommissioned officers
who would not be checked by losses or
deadly risks.
The Hoods. the Hawkes., and the
brakes, who had taken Graincourt and
T.afolle wood by a severe struggle. were
men of a naval division who seized the
bridgeheads over the canal n made
their way across.
on other banks were German machine
gunners who could see every movement
of them. ana when sore Of the British
put narrow pianks over and tried to
cross. they swept them off by a stream
of bullets, but other men followed on,
and some of them lodged the bullets
and some waded and some SWAN. and at
last they were able to form up in some
thing Ike. a. line. and broke into a
charge forward to the high ground
south of Cambria.
They went on to n small wood called
the Paris copse, which they took. but
with the Fifty-seventh Division they
were held up for a time by a trench
south of Provide.
They made repeated efforts to get
astride the road cut straight up from
Rumilly to Cambria. but ii was held
with a machine gun to every yard, and
in face of this fire they could not ad-
vance.
one body If men from the naval di-
vision worked up toward the Fauberg
de Paris, which nuts out of Cambria. but
here again there was a machine gun in
every bit of ruin. and they had to call
a halt after desperate efforts TO carry
the street by assault,
Further north English and Irish troops
who fought with grim and logged valor
made more progress and captured the
outer line of what Is known as the inner
defense of Cambria. east of Proville,
which had been cleared by the gallantry
of the Fifty-seventh Division.
Fruitful Field OF Attack
As showing the spirit of these men, it
Is astounding but true that two com
panies of the Anzons after all their fight
ing became restless when the barrage
fire started for the Fifty-seventh's at
tack on Proville, and as one of their
officers put it. they "joined in the hunt
though 1t VAS outside their boundary
ground.
All about here is fruitful for attack,
as II makes an open glacis falling down
to the outskirts OF Cambria, where the
British come under the full sweep of the
German machine-gun fire, and then rises
up steeply to the Fauberg de Paris.
Meanwhile. south Of all this the Third
Division, with the Second Division or
it's left. was ~endeavoring to gair
possession Of Rumilly, for which the
Sfxty-second Division Of Yorkshires haC
fought until they were utterly exhausted
by lack of sleep and any kind OF rest.