Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-22
|HA|C'S MEN ADVANCE ON
 10 MILE. LINE Launch Successful Drive From Ancre River to
 Moyenville. TAKE VILLAGES AND
 MANY PRISONERS Heavy Fog Per1&ts Britons to Overwhelm Foe and
 Make Big Gain.

With the British Army in France, Aug. 21 (By The Associated Press, 3:30 p. m.)-Having smashed into General von Bellows seventeenth ar my during heavy fog at dawn today on front of more tha nten miles ex vile, the British have throughout the day made steady progress forward, capturing villages, taking prisoners and guns and inflicting heavy caual- ties on the surprised enemy.
 Coming directly on the heels of the battle south fthe Somme, the scene of which virtually adjoins the field of the new operations, this blow ex- ploits to the limit the confusion creat- ed among the German forces by their recent defeats.
 Go Thru Heavy Fire.
 Heavy fighting has occurred along the embankment of the Albert-Arras railroad, which, although we'll within the German lines last night, seems to have been easily reached by the storming British infantrymen, who | were assisted in this task by tanks. It was from this embankment that the Germans, armed with countless machine guns, fired rain of bullets in an effort to keep the British from coming further, but while they were doing it they themselves must have suffered severely, not only from the flood of direct and indirect machine gun fire, but from shells which were sent crashing about their ears from directly in front of them, for the Brit ish field guns moved closely in the rear of the inlantrymen and from their flank where the big British guns hurled in an avalanche of steel from the north.
 As inevitable when g. battle ragged with such intensity as along this em- bankment, the exact situation is ob- secure, but reports have been receiv- ed that the British have broken down the German defensive at various plac- es and have passed through the east ern side.
 In comparison with the harder fighting it is worthy of mention that at some places no resistance of any practical importance developed. For instance, the village of Beaucourt was was taken with only three casualties.
 "One wounded man returning from the fighting said he went three kilo- meters through the enemy line before seeing single boche. But this is ex- plained by the fact that the German positions were yer ,ythinly held at some points.
 Logeast wood was one of the most strongly held positions in the fore ground and this was reached early in the day.
 Prisoners Tickled at Capture. As to prisoners, there is no defin-. ite information ,ubt more than one thousand have reached the cages and they have come in from a consider able distance, most of them having been captured during the early fight ing.
 Some of the first prisoners arrived at the cages with hand bags and long curver porcelain pipes. They seemed clean and were as pleased with them selves as if going on leave.
 A wounded British soldier told he separated from his platoon in the fog but he pressed on and joined other groups. One said that, plunging thru CHe 1Og ne ran uIrectIy lnCO IeF- man machine which opened fire on him.
 It managed to get in one shot talk ing off a finger, before he and his comrades finished if off with their rifles.
 In the early forenoon the fog cleared away and sun appeared. As the fog disappeared the roar of air planes increased British machines pursuing harassing attacks at the enemy rear and strafing the enemy troops generally, upsetting them com pletely at many places.
 Whippet Tanks Into Fray.
 The fast little Whippet tanks had, as one officer said "gone out into the wide world land there is no doubt but that they are exacting as great toll here as they did south of the Somme.
 The armored cars had gone into fSOnkausro6 nsn na~~ .av