The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-10
ARMORED CARS
WORKING HAVOC
Enemy AbandOns Guns, Stores
and Maps in Flight From
SOmme District.
CAVALRY PUSHES AHEAD
Troop Train Set Afire and
Villages Cleared Of Flee
ing Germans.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Prc6s.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE,
Aug. 9-The British and French div-
sions have gained more ground In the
great battle raging in the Amiens-
Somme district The latest reports ap-
pear to show the Germans are retiring
in great haste.
The scenes on the battle-ground over
which the Allies already have passed
give evidence OF this haste in abandoned
guns, stores and even regimental and
artillery maps and papers. Aerial OBJ
servers report large streams Of trans
port and men hurrying eastward in full
retreat.
Beaucourt fell to the allied forces this
morning and lie Quesnel also was taken
after hot all night f1shting.
Tanks Working Havoc.
The cavalry is working far back to-
| ward the Somme and is still rounding up
villages. while tanks and armored cars
I are running over the country clearing
way for the troops or killing horses
drawing enemy supplies. The drivers
OF motor trucks and lorries are chasing
parties of Germans here and there. scat
tering them or running them to earth.
The details of some of the work OF
these armored cars show that they have
performed valiant services. One of them
ran into a German held town yesterday
afternoon while the German corps sta
| toned there was having lunch II turned
its guns through the corps quarter win
dows. killed some of the stan and then
chased others who escaped from the
house. At Roseres another car set an
enemy train on fire.
A group OF cars met far inside the
enemy lines a German supply column
and halted II. Four mounted German
officers came up to see what the trouble
was and were shot from the cars, which
then proceeded to make quick work OF
! the column
Set Troop Train Ahre.
| AT Framerville the cars engaged a
| train loaded with the enemy and finally
set 1t afre. Tanks entered this town
soon afterward. helped the armored cars
clean 1t up and then hosted flags on the
roof OF the building which had been Ger
! man corps headquarters. One car met n
mobile along the road. The officer was
killed and his machine captured,
| All along the line this afternoon snip
ers and Isolated machine gun bilets
were extremely busy, but these were
being silenced one by one as the ad-
vance proceeded.
It is reported that two regimental
commanders have been captured in one
sector.
Since daybreak the Germans have
been making an extraordinary effort to
blow up with field gun fire ammunition
and other dumps which they had to
leave so hastily yesterday.
Guns Abandoned in Pits.
The scene at Bayonvillers to-day Ia
! typical of the rest OF the battle area
Broad fields OF crops or brown grass
fringe the town and spread for miles
over tho fiat surrounding country
Abandoned German field guns are here
with little piles OF empty shell cases
and the bodies of Germans lying here
and there, telling the story OF what
happened. On the side OF the road are
enemy motor trucks, one OF them with a
trailer filled with artillery maps, which
the headquarters stan could not save.
The guns abandoned here, as else
where, are in shallow pits three feet
deep. Little holes near by, covered with
curved iron slabs. snow where the Ger
man gunners lived before they were
killed or ran to save themselves.
Harbonnieres. near by, was shellcd tc
pieces The gaunt walls show the ac
curacy OF the British artillery fire
Debris lies ali over the streets, which
bear little signs upon which German
names had been written.
Here the allied forces found the hous
which the German Mayor Of the towi
had occupied. the whole top had beei
knocked OFF and several shells had hi
the walls but there were evidences tina
the Mayor had stayed until the last mo
ment in a room on the ground floor
Further southwark the ground her
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