Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-14

since Rawlinson's and Byng's artil-
lery barrage swept over the Boche
lines and the British and American
troops went forward behind these
harrages, which went like ciockwork.
The Germans were coming in
through different rorsts TO the diff
ferent prison pens, Just as in that
old time game of pigs in clover
certain small balls dropped into diff
ferent billets 1t was pigs in clover"
too, for the Germans We're immense
ly pleased to be on this side of the
line instead of the other, particular
ly as they had nothing savoring Of
the Hindenburs defenses to aid
them.
BY III o'clock prisoners amounting
to thousands had been taken along
the whole front of the British at
tack, and of these fully 200 were in
one American cage which ! visited
The American doughboys were con-
vulsed with laughter when they saw
the spontaneous glee of the enemy
as other prisoners filtered lnto thelr
cages and old acquaintances were
! recognized by those who were cap
tured earlier. The crowd of British
Tommies laughed with these Ameri-
| can lads
Northward Gen. Byng's army was
putting down an awful barrage on
the German positions as his troops
swept forward to outflank Cambria
| from the south at Niergnies and Sc
ranvillers while along the Attn army
| front of the advance i white wall OF
smoke on the horizon denoted the
victorious drive into this vital part
/ of the enemy terrain until Brancourt,
Fremont Seraiu, Nillers-Outreaux
i,had been wrested from him,
| Germans Vague Peace RumorS.
German prisoners taken knew
nothing Of the great anxiety of the
kaiser for peace, though many, in
Guiding some officers, told their
American and British captors that
! they had heard rumors of new
peace move. Many said they mad
no more lines of defense behind them
and that the German soldiers were
/ told they must seek any protectlon
they could, and shell holes in par
| ticnIar
| For long intervals during the bat
| tie there was little enemy artillery
retaliation. He tried principally to
concentrate on points occupied by
the British or American with long
range firing, or to upset the advanc-
! ing troops with fire from machine
gun posts, Of which there were nu-
merous formidable ones. through
which Byngs Sd army had to mop
! up" and which it did. ! was at an
advanced dressing station where | saw
some of the most interesting and
affecting pictures of the days bat
| tie, for here British, Americans and
Germans filtered back from the
| fighting, sometimes Tommies sup
porting their more severely wounded
| American comrades and vice versa.
with both lending helping hand to
| the Boche when the latter was UNI
able to proceed without assistance.
I was standing beside a Red Cross
ambulance when a British Tommy
came along supporting wounded
American.
81 got it in the arm" said this
| Memphis fellow, "but / got three
| Germans for it. ! didn't come all
this way to listen to anybody say
| Kamerad after firing a machine
gun at me until was on top OF
him. That's what happened to me
aud I Hust shot three of EN-"
| To which there was a vociferous
expression of satisfaction by Tommy
Atkins, who said, That's the only
way to treat that kind of a Hun
and both got into a waiting vehicle
! and made room for two wounded
Germans TO get in beside them.
! Reports come down from the fas
moving troops that the whippe
4 tanlcs Ead gone in still further, wild
1 ening the breach in the enemy lines
This battle is sure to spell still
more Emphatically than ever thu
complete defeat of the enemy.