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OUR WOUNDED.
PIONEERS' FEATS.
NIGHT DIGGING IN NO ̈ MAN'S LAND
[FROM W. BRACH THOMAS.]
The provalence of mud over the battle- field gives double prominence to the pioneer battalions, and too high a tribute cannot well be paid to their work during the later stages of the fighting.
With us it is all talk of peace. I am going to learn to love the English" And would not see any humour in the sug- VIVID STORY OF A GREAT DAY.
gestion that it was a little late to begin,
One can never tell these stories of SWEEP OVER GERMAN DEFENCES.
prisoners who have surrendered willing- ly, and who talk of the desire for peace ĮBY “THE TIMÍRB” SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. among their comrades, without feeling it necessary to add a caution that this BRITISH HEADQUARTERS, Nov. 14th lack of moral may be, and often demon
straby is, only load. There are Germans Our victory on the Ancre grows more enough who fight staunchly yet, even if decisive with every hour. When I wrote there are an extraordinary and increas last night wo knew that we had swepting number who hardly fight at all.
They are engineers, without the name. everything before us on the stream, and had captured St. Pierre Divion. We On most of the front attacked yester. They are amphibious all possible knew that on the north we had shattered day and to-day they undoubtedly fought senses of the word. They can live in an the great main German first line on badly. In all the blind confusion that atmosphere of mud and gas fumes. front of some 3,000 dr 4,000 yards, and went on, if the enemy had been as good Thoir proper haunt is No Man's Land "At the that our men had gone on, past the suon the British soldiers the issue might and they are busiest at night. cessive lines of trenches, through and have been far different. In all my search same time they are infantry, and on occa beyond the rabbit warren of dug-outs to day I have not found one of our mension their machine guns, and rifles have old collars, and Tortified places which who actually got to close quarters with done as noble service as their spades and constituted the stronghold of Beaumont German who fought, I believe thore shovels. Night after night they go where Hamel, and had reached a line in the have been some bayonet wounds reported the chief trouble is, and in present con- ontskirts of the village of Beaucourt (I have heard of one), but nearly all our ditions this may mean a previous wade, sur-Abere.
We knew that over 2,000 casualties were caused by to the whole to sad from their comparative haven in long-range fire, stagger a wrestle of five or six hours prisoners had been taken, and that more some by machine guna, were likely to come.
No Man's Land.
But we know also that behind the line to which we had advanced there wore still pockets of Germans-wasps' nests under ground-amid the labyrinthine defences, and one hesitated to build too surely on the capture of all the isolated garri- sons. By this morning, however, all had been cleared out, the prisonere had in creased to about 4,000, and the whole of Beaumont Hamel was safely our To day we have pushed on through Beat court, and that village also is ours. To the left of it we have advanced across the high ground to the north-east of Beat mont Hamel, to the road from Serre to Beaucourt, and the prisoners exceed 5,000.
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This afternoon the fighting is still going on. The artillery has been roaring all day, and beyond Beaumont Hamel, to north and cast, the high ground 18 wreathed in smoke.
THE BEAUMONT FORTRESS.
a smaller proportion than usual, the greater number being from shrapnel or shell splinters. The losses on our side. however, are comparatively very light There are certainly individual battalions and, I believe, whole divisions, which will be found to have taken prisoners in excess of the total casualties which they suffered.
Every sort of enemy must be tackled. On a recent occasion à company eut a passage through a wood under such con- ditions that every man among the activo workers was physically sick from the reek and brutality of the work. Contempt, of shell fire another of the elements in which they live-is integral to their busi- ness. They move about in the open when every other soul is as far underground as he can get.
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On former "great days" fn this battle have spoken of the thrill of victory which is in the air, and seems to colour everything. It has been so to-day. Tho walking wounded soldiers were as cheery a lot of men as it has been my lot to moot.. They might have very uncertain ideas as to where they fought or what they did, but, whatever it was, they know that they had done it right. They know that they had always been going forward, with the enemy either running away or surrender ing, and that, when they individually were stopped by the bullet or bit of shell that did it, their comrades were going on a little more. And I think I liked best of all the man who stood in the mid-The truth is that the organisation, the dle of the muddy road and told me that it was," all for old England."
INDREGROUND VILLAGE' OF DIVION, "
It is not possible yet to say what the full measure of our success will be, or what the final tale of prisoners. That it is one of the most brilliant success of the Battle of the Some, if not of the war, there can be no doubt. The reputa. While the capture of Beaumont Hamel tion of Beaumont Homel would alone is, of course, the great achievement of the make its capture a great achievement, days the triumphant sweep which took us to the Ancre on the south was no small even if we had not the evidence, which we we have in the huge number of prisoners thing, giving us all that slope, a square taken, of the strength in which it was mile or so of intricately defended torri-
tory, and the point of St. Pierce Divion. held.
St. Pierre Divion, where was once & church and a cluster of houses, lies on the valley level at the foot of the slope from the southern side of the stream. It has always had some interest and impor tance, because it was known that here there were elaborate dug-outs, and that it was the ganglion of the Gorman com munications at the mouth of the valley, we knew that they through which evacuated many of their wounded and got up supports and supplies to the troops of the front line on the high ground above.
The only obvious effect of shell-fire is to make them dig rather harder, and long since all kinds of records have been broken by the miners who are the making of many of the beat battalions. mang lives have been saved by expert digging in the later stages of the offen- sive, how many attacks simplified by the straightening of trenches, is beyond all calculation. Yet perhaps less is known of the pioneers than of any part of the Army,"
sonsolidation of captured positions is
Brst and foremost the handwork of the pioneers. On one occasion now ancient. history group of pioneers who pushed up at night to dig trenches found the infantry so exhausted that many could not even talk consecutive sense.
Uiter weariness of this sort is of the essence of war, and the pioneers, whose weariness was rather Icks, used their
spades all night and their gung a good It is all in the day's part of the day. work But never, I think, have they worked to better purpose than during the stages of our advance in the open down the slope to Bapaume. They have never rested and never failed, and, in my ex- perience, seldom complained.
I saw Beaantont, Hamel, looking at it from behind our front lines, early if the b summer, when it was a peaceful village embowered in trees. I saw it again after 1402
our gutus, in preparation for the offensive of July 1st, had played on it for 48 hours, and swept it out of existence houses and trees together. Since then I have looked across at the site of it several
Oso company commander and his sub times at the white battered patch show ing at this and of the crease in the
altern, whom I met after many days of ground in which the village lay, with the
work in No Man's Lant, were insistent few ragged tree-stumps sticking up here
on this one fact: that anyway they had a much easier time than the infantry and there. Before its nearest edge, down
Some of our men have to-day in part proper. They came and went. The in- to and across the low ground before our lines, ran successive lines of trenches, axplored the underground works here fantry stayed. And it is that sort of
admiration for others with the rusted wire entanglements and it setins that, starting from recessed magnanimity and thick that they looked like a belt of and sheltered entrances on the valley work that is steadily making the present brown ploughed land. The entanglements level, a great gallery runs back some 360 Army one of the best in the world. By in some places wore as many as five tiers yards in the hill. Then it branches, and the nature of their job engineers and has been explor. I pioneers above olhors spend their time in deep, and, behind these and the front one branch of the T trenches, the face of the hills and downed for some 200 yards further. Here doing work on behalf of others, and they on the other side to the Upper Ancre, was were underground dressing stations for live up to the standard of this enforced
the wounded, and great quantities of altraiam. pierced everywhere with ile entrances to
stores of all kinds, and quarters for the barrack-line cellars and deep dug outs, which made the whole place veritable fortress.
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whole companies of mon, and oicers' rooms with timbered and panelled walls and paper on them. From the further "THE BRITISH EXAMPLE,” end passages and steps lead up to the communication trenches on the hill. The investigation is only partially complet ed, but it is said that among the booty found there is a great number of machine guns stored and of machine gun ammuni- tion. And it all smells very foully.
GERMAN WAR MINISTER'S CALL
TO THE REICHSTAG.
A Berlin telegram says that General von Stein (the new Minister of War)} made the following declaration to the
It will be interesting to examine some of that machine-gun ammunition, for there have been repeated stories in this Reichstag:- battle of the use by the enemy of explo
"The Kaiser has ordered me to come sive bullets. Prisoners taken here declare that explosive bullets are used in the here, I come direct from the Somme bat The theold, where I learnt much which is im ratio of 1 to 20 ordinary bullets.
The enemy, ostensible reason is that they are for emportant for my functions. ployment against, our aircraft, but the sune belts are used again our infantry, One accepts all prisoners' statements with reserve, but as I enw many bolts of Aus trian machine-gun ammunition captured by the Serbians with the explosive bullets
above all the English, is introducing into the fight with the aesistance of the entire world ever new and heavier expedients in order quickly to attain his ain
"All Englishmen's letters conclude with the view that all must be borne be- it. Should we not recognise this also, think likewise, and think even rauch keonly of it? Should we not employ all means in an endeavour to surpass our enemies? The mediate future will demand work from me in this direction.
I beg your support in this important work for the Fatherland." (Lond ap- plause.)
To-day I have talked with many of our wounded and with higher officers con- nected with the units engaged, and have heard what prisoners had to say, but it is very difficult to arrive at any con- neeted idea of the actual fighting. The attack, it must be remembered, was delivered in the darkness of 6 o'clock of a mid-November morning; and the day continued foggy, and I have heard ex- traordinary stories of the diffenty which men and units had in keeping touch.
After the first pain trenches were over run there were Germans everywhere, hit ing in pockets and shell-holes and coming out of dugouts, Individual dug-outs yielded up as many as 300 and 400 men introduced in fixed proportions (1 in cause the State and the nation demand after the ground all around had been in 1 in 10, and even 1 in 2) with the regular our possession for some hours. Close bulles, I am strongly in clined to believe down to the German Lewat lino there runs that it is true. The reports of explosive a deep ravine, nearly 1,000 yards in total bullets being used by machine-guas on the length, which, as it approaches the front 8omme have been very frequent. trench, branches like the fork of a cata
64 y" pult, whenes it has been known as ravine. We were over the trenches on buth sides of the ravine and ap along it on eitheir hand at the rush the darkment when a relief was going on, so that there were double the usual number of men of yesterday morning. All day we were fighting far beyond it. Yet this morning in the trenches, and there was a grim we got no lower than 700 prisoners out irony in the fact that the relieving divi sion was the 223rd, which is one of Hin-
The German artillery barrage, how combed- One man who was wounded lay in a denburg's or Ludendorff's new “ shell-hols for some time, and then tried out" formations. It is rather hard that ever, bas nowhere been as heavy in these to make his way to our line and only a it should only have just been created and last two days as one might have expected. lucky dare sent up by the Germans told should go into action for the first time It is probable that our attack at this him that be was walking straight into an as a division only to be caught within a point was unexpected and our quick sue- enemy trench. Others to whom I spoke few minutes of getting to the trenches, ceas still more so. In the fog had only a bewildered memory of going and biffed as badly as we have prevailed--though to-day has been elsar
the 223rd. The total number er-the onemy artillery may well be in forward in the dark among shells-ours" biffed
some doubt as to precisely what has hap or theirs, they did not know-into empty of prisoners taken so far in this tract to trenches or trenches containing only mud the south of the Ancre is about 1,300,pened and reluctant to believe that all and wire, over dim ridges from which with 29 officere, and the officers whether the ground and all his men are really in our hands. Also it is not impossible that Germans fired through the murk beyond, of the new division or the old (which was past shell-holes and dug-oute, till they the 38th), seem to be a characteristically our sudden blow north of the Ancre, and our grip on the high ground, may have met bodies of the enemy with their hands churlish and unmannorly lot.
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The German private when take prison er is usually very humble, and so glad COMING OF THE ENGLISH."
to be taken and to find that ho is not Prisoners tell how they were in trench subjected to a terrible bombard-to be eaten alive that he is commonly ment when, out of the gloom, suddenly grateful for all that is done to him. The they found "the English" were around officers, with occasional conspicuous ex them, running along the top of the trench ceptions, are too often merely swine and throwing bombs among them. Some Among the exceptions was a medical offi of them were wounded, and the rest held eer taken yesterday, who set himself at once to organize the other prisoners into up their hands.
Others tell how the English" had carrying parties to take back our wound- gone past the place where they were lurked These 29, however, appear to be of the other kind They had their packs LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM,
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or ready, whether for surrender then other English came from nowhere, Simply rub it in where the pain isju No more tortured days, or feverish and there was nothing to do but to sar- because of the relief going on one can render. No-one seems sorry to be a prison- not tell, and they are chiefly concerned Strains, sprains, and wwelling, sorer, whether Wurtemberger, Rhinelander, with bearing themselves with dignity and the neck, crick in the back all mush on or Prussian of the Guard Resorve. Some protesting offensively against everything when you rub in LITTLE'S ORIENTAL have fought since the beginning of the that is done objecting equally to being BALM It has dispelled forever the war, having been in the first affairs in made to walk back where they might be hit by their own barrage and to being Belgium. Others had been exempted haunting spectre of human suffering.
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THE ENEMY ARTIKLERY."
In this immediate neighbourhood of the Ancre he has, or recently had, about 1,000 guns.
He has certainly not made the best use of them during the last two days, and after our men had cleaned out the dug-outs on the south of the stream yesterday there was a delectable interval: in the afternoon wheri, ao light was the German fire, they were able to stroll, about in the open smoking captured Ger man cigara..
Of the capture of Beaucourt-sur-Anera we, as yet, know little; only that our en, who were close up to it last night, out, on the other side. But, indeed, one feels scutely the hopelessness of giving any clear idea of such a battle as this. Darkness and mud and fog and confusion all militate against the getting of the details which alone would make a pios tyrssquo description practicable.
have to day gone through it and are well