The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-13

are holding their line and their pa
trolls have been sent out, now and
then, feeling out the foreground.
At many places along. the new
front, especially just south of the
Somme, the Germans are occupying
the old line dugouts built by the
French more than two years ago.
The Germans have concentrated some
artillery at many places and yester-
day were sending in more shells than
on any day since the battle began.
Lihons, which came into British hands
Sunday, when Field Marshal Haig's
men stormed the place after having
been driven out in a counter attack
was being heavily shelled yesterday.
A party of cavalry charging down
the Roye road ran into the crossfire
Of large German pill boxes studded
with machine guns just this side Of
Roye and received a check, but the
! Germans who happened to get the OPP
portunity to do this execution paid
the extreme penalty later.
| Yesterday the resistance by the en-
envy had been stiffening progressively
but his troops appeared to be nervous
and apprehensive of what the future
fholds out for them and what the AL
lies intend to do. In order to feel out
the allied forces 1t is expected that
further heavy counter attacks may be
launched by the enemy.
| Stories of the air fighting over the
battle lines are amazing One OBJ
server coming into his station shot
down four machines. In the same
fighting a British pilot chased one
enemy plane to earth and was swoop-
ing down to finish off his antagonist
when the man climbed out of his ma
chine and held up his hands in token
of surrender.
80 I didn't kill him." the British
pilot said. But on my way home
met a group of enemy machines and
got a bullet in me, but managed to
land inside our lines"
| The report of this incident ends
with the statement that the pilot died
lin a hospital soon after relating his
fstory.
A British two-seater shot down two
enemy machines during a battle royal
in the air. The pilot was badly
wounded and fell across his controls.
The observer, however, leaned for
ward and secured his comrades body
machine. He brought it to earth,
where it crashed, but both the occu-
pants escaped death.
Another pilot during the course of
a fight started for home wounded.
side his own lines he collapsed from
loss of blood.
There are dozens of thrilling tales
Of hoy oh Slx
ming close to the ground, fired point
blank into bodies of enemy troops,
killing a great many despite the fire
from. the ground, and how they wiped
Iput the crews of enemy machine guns
Eholding up the allied advance. They
also effectively attacked the poorly
constructed German tanks before they
lever had a chance to get them into
action.
Prisoners from fresh Prussian and
Bavarian divisions have been cap
tured in the last few hours. The NOR
ale of these men is extremely low, a
great many of them expressing the
opinion that Germany, twice badly
beaten in recent weeks and perhaps
having further defeats in store fol
them, is on the down grade, headed
LOT defeat.
: French families who for months
have been refugees from their homes
in this district are now returning
whenever possible. Many of course
will find their BONES, but other!
, which were within range of the Ger
man guns before the allied offensive
were knocked to pieces by shell fire.
The contrast between the number
| Il
ualties is regarded as remarkable. Fol
instance, the casualties of the entire
allied forces were considerably les!
than the total prisoners taken. Whe1
1t is understood that this battle ha!
not been waged for the purpose o
taking prisoners the casualties in
t. ficted on the Germans must have
l reached a large figure.