Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-15
Dash and Courage of South
Carolina and Tennessee
Troops Win High Praise
From British at Cambria,
BY JOSEPH w. GRIGG.
Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publish
ing Co)

headquarters, somewhere in the in
visible terrain beyond the battle area.
Old Cambria had been one of the
greatest boche concentration points
and railroad centers on the western
front. 1t has finally been mopped up
and there is no surer sign of the enc
my's complete defeat than in his Civ.
ing up this vital point of his lines.
Since part of Byng's third army
kicked Off around . o'clock yester.
day morning, followed later by the
fourth army on the right, including
the American Thirtieth division, this
great drive at the time of Germany
critical hour has brought the defeat
by these two armies alone of parts OF
more than twenty-seven enemy divi.
sions.
Job of hopping Up.
When the battle reopened again in
full blast this morning it had sucked
in the first army on the left of Cam
brai and in the streets of that famous
town troops from both the first and
second armies We're linked up in the
job of hustling the enemy from beyond
the gates.
At $3.50 o'clock this morning the
third and fourth armies once again
launched a fierce onslaught which
soon swept over a large number OF
towns and villages, reaching as far as
Marets and Clary. They had thus
within twenty-four hours pass through!
more than nine miles of enemy ter.
rain and had captured 10000 prison
ers, and were still going.
No Set detectives.
''If only the weather holds good we
can give the kaiser at once a perfect
answer said one jubilant staff Off
Ger. "Where are our objeotives?" he
went on, replying to my question. "Our
detectives are wherever the enemy
may be; to find him and to beat him;
we have long since passed beyond set
detectives"
The enemy has no intention of CIV
ing the sort of satisfaction this officer
requires, by waiting for us to come up.
He is heading for the Disc canal. still
hoping to hold certain vantage points
to the last and to defend himself in
echelon formations, supported by mo-
bile batteries which are along the line
of his retreat, before eventually he
reaches the Meuse 1t is not believed
that he has any formidable defenses
along that route.
Yesterday the British and New
Tealanders outflanked his Masnieres-
Beaurevoir line. ut was as pretty q
piece of wiring as l have seen during
the war" 4 veteran machine gun col
onel said this morning, in giving me
his opinion of these defenses. This
wiring was fifty yards deep and was
intersected with concrete pill boxes
four feet thick. When it went the fate
of Cambria was sealed.
Battle Begun I'm Dark.
1t was pitch dark when the opera
ton began. The enemy soon found
himself completely outflanked from
the north, and his other flank was also
soon turned, in a sanguinary conflict
in which the British and New Zealand
bayonets worked swiftly. Only those
who surrendered and the wound got
away, for it was a finish fight there.
big counter-attack was started by
the enemy against the third naval di-
vision, which had outflanked his line
on the right and had reached Nerg.
MES. In the onslaught the enemy used
seven old model British tanks which
he had captured some time ago. This
British were ready, and knocked out
these tanks with anti-tank rifles takef
from the enemy. 1t proved a bad day
| crews of ten men and an Officer
crowded into each of them. After re.
pulsing the counter-attack the Sixty
| third went on as far as Forenville.
Turning his own weapons on the
enemy was an experience of the Thir.
| tieth American division, composed OF
North Carolina, South Carolina ant
| Tennessee boys, when they took TIVE
| enemy batteries yesterday. With thu
| help of the captured batteries thu
| had q total of thirty enemy guns with
| in few hours. These Americans have
| been doing themselves proud from thu
| time of their breach into the linden
| burg line in a brilliant charge las
| week, in which they were supporte'
| by New York boys.
Win High Praises.
The dash and courage of the Amer
| leans and their soldierly skill have
won the highest admiration of the
| British officers and men. The South
| erners are a lanky lot. with a sof
| flavor in their speech, but they show
the valiant spirit of the troops of LEI
and Stonewall Jackson. They 'kicket
off" this morning for more Bocht
villages, but their chief wish was t.
/ get at the enemy.
II guess these Germans don't like
the battle business very much" SAT-
one of the boys after returning II
his own lines, having been one o
the party of his compatriots who ad
vanced yesterday under a barrag'
and become isolated. This boy hat
lain in a shell hole for eighteen hour
with a shrapnel wound in his side
before he had been able to craw
back among his fellows.
eve are certainly killing n lot o
them. and capturing a lot Wouldn'
the folks ait home like to see all thes,
Heinies coming IMP he added as h.
looked down the long line of enem,
/ prisoners.
Show Their Gameness.
talked with numbers of the Amer
lean boys after they had been wound
ed and brought to the advance,
dressing station One of them wa
sorely tried by wounds of uncommon
severity. and did his best to keen from
crying with pain. I saw a British
sergeant stoop over him when tn
lad said he could not stand the pail
any longer. STEADY. my boy. steady,
the veteran said as he stroked tn
Americans forehead. and helped iif
him on a stretcher into an ambulance
A smile lighted the boys face as h
looked gratefully at the sergeant an,
not another utterance OF pain escap
ed him.
Tommy. put something over m
head" heard an American wound