The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-08-15
Take Guns and Prisoners

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Take Guns and Prisoners
With the British Armies In France,
Aug. I'm yesterdays fighting the
French added 1000 prisoners and
more than 80 guns to their captures.
There was stiff fighting today, Crown
Prince Ruppracht having hurried up
part Of his diminishing reserves to
try to check the retirement of the ar
J mics of Generals Won Der Marwitz and
Hutier. The greatly increased weight
or the enemy's artillery and machine
| gun fire was proof of the rapid
| strengthening of his reinforcements.
German Line Grows Stronger
During the lull in the battle there
are further indications that the line
is hardening.
This afternoon Crown Prince Rup-
precht of Bavaria seems to have
brought In more fresh troops, and
| while the allied forces are pausing of
their own accord. the enemy within
| the area of his new battle front, with
| the Somme at his back, Is having a
| most uncomfortable time. The Brit
ish guns are hammering Chaulnes,
| while cannon of larger calibre are
coming up all the time and d~renching
the enemy rear with steel. They are
| also pounding away at the bridges
| across the Somme at Bethancourt.
Air Bombs Effective
The Smelling Of the brigdes here is
a serious matter for the enemy as
| bombs from the air are continually
| being dropped by British airplanes
| from a low altitude al 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
lighting today. They still are holding
their line and their patrols have been
sent out now and then feeling out the
foreground.
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 bat
tie began.
Lihons, which came into British
hands yesterday when Field Marshall
Haig's men stormed the place after
| having been driven out In a counter
attack, was being heavily shelled to-.
day.
A party of cavalry charging down
the Roye road ran into the cross fire
/ of large German pill boxes. studded
with machine guns just this side of
Roye, and received a check, but the
Germans who happened to get the OPP
portunity to do this execution paid the
extreme penalty later.
Air Men Active
Today the resistance by the enemy
/ has been stiffening progressively.
Stories on the air fighting over the
| battle lines are amazing. One obser-
YER shot down four machines. In the
! same fighting a British pilot chased
/ one enemy plane to earth and was
swooping. down to finish oc his antag-
| on;st when the man climbed out of his
machine and held up his hands In
token of surrender.
80 didn't kill him." the British
pilot said.
ION the way home ! met a group
OF enemy machines and got q bullet
in me. but managed to Sand inside our
lines"
The report Of this incident ends
with the statement that the pilot died
In q hospital shortly after relating
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