The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-09
$4,000 GERMAN SOLDIERS TAKEN PRISONERS
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated Press)
Seventeen thousand prisoners and numerous to men,
the British drive the front south of the
some odays office report The cavalry still pur
sunp enemy Germans blowing their ammunition
dumps the battle This is considered an indication that
they preparing to retreat.
London announces that 1900 prisoners and than 200
guns up 1t reported that German
divisional general has been captured
Cavalry patrols accompanied by swift whppet tanks are
reported by far ahead Of the infantry advance The in
fanry apparently checked only by sheer ply
sical inability to push any farther.
transport lorries have been rolling
along good left the Somme valley They afforded
targets who played havoc with the escaping
speedily Uttered the road that they i'm
passabe
the beginning of the drive
the number of prisoners counted three o'clock
this afternoon.
Allied armen have blown of the bridges the
the retreat seriously embarrassed The
British cavalry has rounded prisoners but the largest
part the 1900 far taken captured by Australians and
Canadians An quantity of stores and ammunition
been abandoned in their hasty retreat.
Lines Badly Broken.
German lines Picardy south of the somme have
been badly broken by the savage the British and French
army wedge has been driven into the territory to
depth of II miles along the Sere railway and
early today the British only mile from the Chaunes
Roye railway southwark from Chaulne and forms the
chief of supplies for the German troops fighting in the
Montdider sector of the front.
The result of this attack to have ecpsed those o.
tanned the first day of of their terrific
oensive of the spring and So far reports show
the fighting OF allies gong OrWard
without serious opposition On the north bank of the
held their line strongly but have lost
Morancourt their stronghold there after hard fighting The
French south have had their advance retarded at
points, the officially reported to have been
reached allied
not nearly spent itself.
Armored Tanks Work Great Havoc.
From dispatches the battlefield that
attacked the Germans with artillery preparation the
methods resembling grand scale that adopted by Cen
before Cambrai last November ArmOred tanks IN
great through the Germans first line position
followed and then through the in the enemy
cavalry and aoed swept into the back
surprising German detacmnts and throwing the whole defensive
organization of the enemy into chaos
Hardly had the German along the Somme been
ported than dispatches began tell of German retirement the
Flanders Locon Quentin and three little villages the
tip Of the salient have been abandoned by
held by the British This looked
the out of the German withdrawal from the Lys salient
which forecast dispatches The ground held
the Flanders low and dominated by the allied
artillery and a retirement there has been expected
In larger aspects the of the allies south of the
threat to the German nes
pey the southwark The advance has not far weakened
position norhward toward Arra but the finds
himself embarrassing position around Monddier and from
southeasward at least the Disc far
of the allies Picardy would ouank the whole
line far the Disc and probably immediate
positions which be linked with the Asne line
s<-The war; today Un
the oil
invaluable
offensive of They
Of positions
soldiers and machine
peaceful pursuit OF The German machine fire
fields behind heavy than expected possibly
manlnes the
French
ruthless
% a miles and
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