The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-31

With the British Forces in France, Aug 30.-The fighting British armies again smashed their way forward to- day all along the line. There has been very heavy fighting almost every where between the Somme and Scarpe rivers and under the force of repeat ed blows delivered with machine like precision, the foe has been forced to abandon many more town positions and large strips of ground.
 Once more the Germans have sui fered terrible losses. The British have freed all the country south and west of the Somme, the last Gefmans being driven behind tie river this morning. Even there the enemy is not finding rest, for the British have crossed the stream at least in one place south of LaChapelleette.
 From Peronne southward the British cannon and the French guns are hurling projectiles, big and little. on the other side o1 the river. Just north of the Somme, after it turns to the west at Peronne, the British have
  toward Peronne.
 The Germans have been trying ever since the fall of Bapaume to hold the line running along the road between that town and Peronne British pa trols, however, actually have reached| LeTransloy. directly OF the road, and it is reported that LeTransloy has fal len and that fierce battle within al battle is raging almost along the whole length of the road
 Hard fighting is going on around Beaulencourt, which is astride thei road between I.eTransloy and Ba paume The Germans hold the maj0rI portion of this village for the moment, but they seem destined to be thrownI out from it. A bitter struggle also isl in progress at Morval, southwest of LeTransloy,
 The fighting appears to haveI reached a hand to-hand character and the Germans are said to have suffercdI from the British bayonets. Other towns in this immediate neighborhood fell this morning or during last night.
 From this locality the line of battlel swings wide around Bapaume and there has been more fighting here
 BancOugt east of Bapaume fell afterl being stormed.
 Astride the road to Cambrai from Peronne, the British crashed into the, Germans and smothered their resist ance, sometimes at the point of thel bayonet
 Fremicourt seems to have beenl taken and the British have driven onl eastward
 North of here Vaulx-Vraucourt, which contained a large enemy garri-I son that offered the strongest resist ance with machine guns, apparently has fallen in its entirety to the Brit ish. Ecoust-St Mein and d.ongatte, inI it's suburbs, again reported to have been captured by the British.
 Here the Germans delivered pow erfui attack and the British withdrew in The face of it. The artillery wasI turned into the trap the Germans had made for themselves and after it fin ished the British moved back again and mopped up what remained of theI Germans.
 Bullecourt is well in British hands, as apparently also is HendicOurt, Reincourt and Cagnicourt seem to be in the possession of Field Marshal Haigs men. Heavy fighting is report ed in this locality, as here the British have reached q point only a few hun dred yards from the Droucourt- -Queant| switch line which apparently is garr-I soned with every man the German high command has been able to lay hands on. They are waiting for what they expect may come in their five lines of trenches which are protected by many belts of barbed wire.
 But even as they wait they are being harassed by heavy fire from the Brit ish cannon. which throughout this zone of the battle are laundering away as hard as their gunners can force them. From here northward across