Arizona republican., 1918-08-30
BRITISH GAIN GROUND AFT TER
 HARD FIGHTING
French Having Reached River Somme, Australians Clearing Enemy from that
 Region. Bapaume Fallen
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

stilAtu dutlllOll1l 5louliu lOuo. h-iN las been hard fighting in the Sca.pe esion, where the German resistance is ,cing sustained regardless of cost in ln effort to save their Brocourt- -Queant inc. As a matter of fact the line IS still intact but this is solely because he British have not actually carried put any assaults against it.
 Tn the operations today there was desperate fighting, this for the purpose of strengthening out the British line ant pushing closer to the enemy posi- tons. Individual Germans in this lC- Cality as at other places are showing increased dislike for the war that IS going against them. Their officers have heen forced to shoot some of the men for refusing to obey orders. Neverthe- less the enemy is offering the stiffest 
 Retreat Before Australians
 South of the Somme the Germans are retreating before the Australians. The French to the south having reached the banks of the Somme back waters, the Australians are engaged in clearing the enemy from the small bit of ground re- n'aining to him west and south of the river within the angle created by it's course.
 KGpaume has virtually been sur rcurded for several days. British pa trols having been in its western out skirts, and it has just unofficially. been reported to have fallen.
 South of Bapaume the battle con tinues. This afternoon the British were cast of Maurepas and Combles, while Cinchy and Guillemont have been stolmed and captured. The British arc pushing on.
 British Beat Down Opposition
 Other British troops this afternoon heat down the opposition and are nov ing through Thilloy, just south of Ba pa me. The whole British line here seems to be on the move. The Ger mans are falling back. leaving large numbers of machine guns on the ground out of which they are being pushed
 In the north heavy fighting is in progress on both sides of Bullecourt  Carbonnel and Barleux have been taken.
 Within the past 24 hours the Ger mans have launched several heavy counter attacks. fresh troops being employed In every case except one the enemy was beaten back with ter rible losses, gaining no ground what soever.
 The one exception was a counter attack south of Gavrelle, north of tho ! Scarpe where the Germans managed tC pentrate the British lines. But they soon were driven out. The only re suit was to carpet the ground in iron of the British with German dead.
 Heavy Fighting for Hill
 There has been extraordinaril! heavy fighting for Greenland hill. Tn, position was reached once by the Brit ish but was relinquished during counter attack yesterday. It is nov entirely British once more. The Brit ish captured many prisoners.
 Just north of the Somme the Ger mans are offering stiff resistance iron Hem on the north bank of the rive west of Peronne.
 Except in the extreme north tn fighting is through villages which hay changed hands many times since tn war began. The ruins in some case became overgrown with weeds, gras and poppies more than once only to b churned up again. Villages reporte from time to time to have been cap tured are not villages at all. They ar simply mounds of debris.
 In the distance now and then ther is a cloud of dust and smoke arisin from a village" showing where a hig explosive shell has just landed. Ther is body of khaki clad troops swing ing up road and one of war battere Germans passing it on the way to tn rear toward the prison cages.
 This country is what the Britis ' have been taking away from the Ger mans but not far away there is Ian that the war has not touched sine 1914. The British are within less tha four miles of this country at the near est point.
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