Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
BRITISH CAPTURE
BRAY AND OTHER
TOWNS IN DRIVE
General Byng's Troops Take
Many Villages and HOrdes
of Prisoners.
NUMEROUS Big GUNS SEIZED
Third and Fourth English Armies Get
$4,000 Huns Since August a-Parls
Reports Only Artillery Fight
ing on French Front.

With the British Army in France
Aug. 26.-The British are smashing
through the German positions all
along the battle front. They have
captured Becordel and have reached
the high ground southwest of FricOurt,
and have passed well beyond Happy
Valley. Bray has been captured by
them. Several thousand German prls-
Oners have passed through the cages
behind General Byng's Third army
No effort to count the guns captured
has been made up to this time.
Noyon Near Fall.
London, Aug. 26.-The town of No
yon is expected to fall at any moment,
according to information received here
from the battle front in France.
In the fighting during the last three
days the British have captured $4,000
prisoners.
The British Third army Is advanc-
Ing very rapidly. 1t has gone forward
In some places on front of u miles
Big Guns Captured.
With the British ARMY in France,
Aug. pa large number Of cannon,
including complete batteries Of how
ltzers, have been captured by the Brit
lsh north Of the Somme. Immediately
south Of the river the British have
taken II cannon.
German prisoners say that IT was
expected by them that the British
would stop at the Arras-Albert rail-
road, and the unexpected success
against them had confused the Ger
man forces.
Tired and depleted, the German d.
visions thi had been Withdrawn from
the. battle since August s ere being
rushed back into ths igst. troops
from the enemy's strategic reserve d.
visions, which had beeHf held for later
counter-attacks, also have appeared
along the front.
The Third and Fourth British ar
niles have. since August s, captured
more than 10000 men. Two thousand
were taken south of the SOmme. The
British army has captured nearly
five thousand In the last two days.
South Of the Somme 1000 Germans
were killed in one combat. They were
closely huddled in front of the Brit
lsh, instead of being In the customary
open order. The allied casualties are
very small.
Fear Allied Guns.
With the French Army in France,
Aug. 2G.-Further evidence has been
gathered that the victories of the al
lies have affected considerably the
morale of the German troops.
The cause of the depression, which
is quite general among the prisoners
taken recently, Is the conclusion tha
they have reached, after comparisons
that the allied artillery tactics are fal
superior to theirs. They attrlbut,
their defeat to the success of III,
French enclrcling their strongest posi-
ton and I'm well-dlrected and concen
trated artillery fire. Thus they hav
been unable to hold even their best
sheltered positions.
After the surprise caused by tn
allies successful resistance In tn
middle Of July the CONSERVATION a
the successful counter-attacks and tn
depression caused by the retreatsSdis
senslons seem To have arisen betwee
different elements of the Germa
army. These have resulted In bite
recrlmInatlons, information concern
ing which has been collected recent.
The bulk of the Juvigny plateau
in the hands of the French, who al
again on the edge of the battlefield {
1917. To the north lies the Allett
valley. Eight miles eastward is LII
faux mill and the beginning Of Ch
min des Danes. French cavalry n
trolls crossed the Ailette, although Il
Germans fought desperately to ket
them on the west side of the rlv
and the canal.