Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-07
STORIES OF THE WAR
Occurrences North of the somn,e.


 On the main front of advance be- low the Somme it will be some days before anything like a clear account of what has been going on can be given One hears wonderful tales of cavalry ranging over open country at night and capturing villages, of tanks nosing about on astounding adventures and rounding up machine gun posts. and of whole batteries of guns and of armoured cars thrusting along the roads far in advance of the infantry, and surprising the Germans at places from which they thought the battle was still remote. One ear is said to nave met German transport column on the road which tried to turn and escape Four German mounted of ficefs came up to find out what was the matter, and they were all shot down | from the car which then proceeded to round up the personnel of the trans port column as prisoners At several 1 places the ears caught both mechan- , ical and horse-draw transport on l the roads, and shot the horses and | took the men prisoners.
 1 One car attacked train on the railway and set it on fire and wreck i cd it. Another found a certain village unwakened to the presence Of danger and went through the streets shooting l through the windows at one house and 1 finding an officers mess at a meal. 1 Yet another near Framervilie, found l itself among hutments, which it dis | covered 10 be Corps Headquarters. It l shot down some corps staff officers and l others. and poured bullets into the 1 huts.. Then it heard that some part 1 of the staff had escaped along the road towards Pefonne. so started aft CT them and hunted them along the road, scattering them into the woods l How many of the corps staff were 1 killed Or what happened to the corps 1 commander, is not known.
 1 Of prisoners have myself seen
 many thousands, One corps had over
 4,e00 through it's cage in the first 2A hours I visited the cage this morn ing soon after dawn and the staff had been at work all night. A column oi 1000 was just leaving. being mached along the road in column of route te be taken farther back and there were still 5000 in the cage itself. They kept on clearing them in patches al the morning, but when I passed agail
 at noon the cage was as full as ever ihnd a few hundred more were just ar
 irving.
 One of the more notable prisoners fl la regimental commander (of whom
 this corps has taken two, besides
 many other ofHeefs), who when ht
 was taken tried to hide his papers bS thrusting them into his brooches dowI to his knees. There. However. they made a bulge which could not b, overlooked. When questioned. h, denied there was anything there, ant was furious at his honor being queS toned Finally. after warning, it wa necessary to search him. which wa done as eourteously as possible ant , the papers were recovered, while h 5 s~ore horribly all the time, revilin the coarseness of the brutal Dnglisl , nation and their utter lack of courtes 2 to a distinguished officer.
 Another corps has got at least 4,00
 prisoners, and probably many more Among interesting lots in this cag ] is a party of 500 Saxons who wer
 caught in a train which was inter 5 cepted as it was coming up 10 tn :. front
 All the prisoners whom nave see
 have been good looking lots .o- rner t much above the average of tIios t taken recently, though containing Ii certain proportion of extreme youth q and weddings.
 n Of the booty taken besides rris l, oners, it is hopeless yet to fraae an i estimate, for guns and baef1ire { n c and material Of all kinds .ars streW i al over the battlefields.-Corrssp p0Ra q ent London Times. ..l.