Arizona republican., 1918-08-13
bR|T|SHGUN AND A|RPLANES
 HAMMER ENEMY
Pounding Away at Chaulnes
 and Bridges Somme at Bethencourt. Enemy Troops are Very Nervous

WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE. Aug. 12.-(By The Associat- ed Press) ).-The British guns are ham, mering Chaulnes while cannon of large calibre are coming up all the time and drenching the enemy rear with steel. They are also pounding away at the bridges across the Somme at Bethen- court.
 The shelling of the bridges here is serious matter for the enemy. as bombs from the air are continually being dropped by British airplanes from (. low altitude at the bridges in the Peronne district. This bombing has been going on day and night since the battle began, forcing the Germans | to divert their transport, so that the general movement was southeast. Now his bridges to the southeast are under heavy fire
 With the comparatively small force | of Americans there has been no real heavy fighting today.
 Occupies Old French Dugouts | At many places along the new front, | especially just south of the Somme the | Germans are occupying the old line | dugouts built by the French more than two years ago. The Germans have concentrated artillery at many places and today are sending in more shells than on any day since the hattie be- gan. Lihons was heavily shelled. l A party of cavalry charging down the Rove road ran into the cross fire of large German pill boxes studded with machine guns Just this side of Rove and received check, but the Germans paid the extreme penalty later.
 Today the resistance by the enemy has been stiffeing progressively, bu, his troops appear to be nervous and apprehensive of what the future holds out for them. In order to feel out the allied forces it is expected that further heavy counter attacks may be l launched.
 Downs Four Hun Planes
 An aerial observer coming into hi. station shot down four machines. IT the same fighting a British pilot chased one enemy plane to earth ant was sweeping down to finish off his antagonist when the man climbed ou of his machine and held up his hand. in token Of surrender
 So I didn't kill him." the British pilot said. But on my way home met group of enemy machines ane got bullet in me but managed to lant inside our lines.'
 | The pilot died in a hospital shortl! after relating his experience.
 Britons Account for Two
 A British twoseater shot down twt enemy machines. The pilot was badl, wounded and fell across his controls The observer secured his colnrade body and managed to get control o the machine. He brought it to cart where it crashed but both the occu pants escaped death.
 Another pilot started for hom wounded. When ten feet above tn ground inside his own lines, he col lapsed from loss of blood.
 There are dozens of thrilling tales 0
 how machine after machine, skimmin close to the ground. fired point h!o1
 into bodies of enemy troops killing great many, despite the fire from tn
 ground and how they wiped out tn
 crews of enemy machine guns holdin up the allied advance They also ef Actively attacked tHe poorly con I structed German tanks before the
 ever had a chance to get into action.
 Germany Headed For Defeat
 Prisoners from fresh Prussian an
 Bavarian divisions have been capture
 in the past few hours. The morale (
 these men is extremely low, a grea
 many of them expressing the opinio that Germany, twice badly beaten 2 recent weeks, is on the down grad headed for defeat.
 The contrast between the number
 prisoners taken and the allied casual
 ties is regarded as remarkable. Fc ] instance. the casualties of the entiI . allied forces were considerably les z than the total prisoners taken. Whe a it is understood that this battle hs '. not been waged for the purpose of tak , ing prisoners, the casualties inflicte ' /, on the Germans must have reached ;. large figure.