The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-24
ALLIED ARMIES
PUSH AHEAD On
5O-MllE FRONT
British Smash Ahead Taking
Thousands of Prisoners.
HOST OF ENEMY KILLED
Many Guns Lost by Germans as They
Try valnly to Meet Hais's Ter
u rifle Blows.

London, Aug. 2S.-The British
attack on Grown Prince Rupprechis
armies has developed into general
engagement along a front OF more
than 80 miles.
Considered in connection with that
of the French from their pont OF
junction with the British to scissors
the allied battle now in progress on
fifty-mile front, promises to ho one
of the greatest of the war
General Byng today advanced
more than two miles on the si&milc
front from southeast of Albert To the
neighborhood of Grandcourt east OF
the Ancre
A few miles to the north the Brit
ish captured Achiet-eGrand, on The
Arras-Albert Railroad.
On the extreme left Gomecourt
was captured by storm Win four
other villages.
Several thousand prisoners were
taken and heavy casualties inflicted
upon the enemy.
With the British Army in France
Aug 23 (Associated Press Victor
ious on battlefront OF thirty miles
extending from the CoieuI River on
the north across the Ancre and Som
me Rivers almost to lihonsy the
Third and Fourth British armies un-
der General Byng and Rawliason at
a., "a .fto0rpnul,r fol DNr.
ing up their successes of today, which
apparently has been one of the most
disastrous days ever experienced by
the Germans.
The enemy has lost wide stretches
of ground. numerous towns, thou
sands OF men made prisoner and
large quantities OF materials and
guns. He has also suffered further
heavy casualties.
Crown Prince -IeuppTeeht OF lia
varia, the German commander, has
thrown his men in before the ad
vancing British armies in an effort
to stave off the inevitable, but only
to have them mown down again and
again by storms of metal which
poured from the British guns. One
entire enemy battalion was annihi-
lated during the fighting.
Dead Germans in great numbers
are scattered everywhere over the
battlefield As an exampl. 400 enemy
dead were observed this morning on
one small piece of ground over which
the battle had swept.
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Notwithstanding the fact that the
British at many places have fought
over open ground against an enemy
protected in pot holes" and strong
points Of other kinds, the British
losses everywhere seem to have been
extraordinarily light This probably
is due to the confusion the Germans
find reigning behind their lines, as
they are fighting losing battle,
which for them hourly grows more
disastrous.
Crown Prince Rupprecht today had
strengthened his line at many places,
but this, instead of stopping the
British, simply meant that the Ger
mans suffered bigger losses
During the night and this morning
the front upon which the battle was
being fought yesterday was widened
appreciahly both to the north and
the south, while the ground in. the
middle. between Albert and Beau
court-sur-Ancre, which heretofore
had been fairly quiet, suddenly was
drawn into the whirl.
London, Aug 24-British attacks
in Albert sector were resumed this
morning, the war Office announces
The British have made progress. II
the last three days fighting the Brit
ish captured fourteen thousand pris
oners.
With Americans on the Nesle front
Aug. 2i.-Thc Americans. Friday
mado another local advance in thi
same region where they increase,
their holdings along the Veslo Thurs
day. Germans used hand grenade
and fame throwers in fruitless AT
tempt to check the Yankees. Tn
Americans captured prisoners
London, Aug. 24-The German
evidently expect to be pressed hac
to the Meuse, says an Amsterdam.cr
respondent, as they are fortilyin
positions along that river in Belglu
and are digging extensive trenches &
Dinant and Civet Thousands of pri
oners and Belgium civilians are boia
used for this work
Gvet is ninety miles directly eal
of Bapaume.