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gan to ascend, alternately engulfed in clouds and clearly visible. Where had been all blackness and flame before' 'us. the earth began to differentiate itself from the sky, with some faint colour showing in the grass and the dark mass
We went by the way where the wounded. of Manetz Wood and the pale lines of
were dribbling back to the first dressing trench and of Contulmaison's ruing. Over to the right, towards Longueval, we station. It is a dreadful sight, and grows BRITISH HEADQUARTERS, July 14.
saw the glow of a great fire, with hinge the less dreadful by familiarity; the It has been a wonderful and thrilling Hairs Picking up and a circle of red re-slightly wounded coming walking down, day, a day truly full of glorious lifeflected in the clouds above, and it stayed their wounds in head or limb hastily dose up in a handkerchief or with the bandage and death and so crowded with unfor- and grew. Nearer to us of the left we gettable experiences that already this were lighting signal fires behind our lines,of an cergency dressing by themselves morning seems weeks away.
while in the growing light the flash of the or by a comrade, those more seriously By a 'clock this morning, while it was shells began to pale and the wreathing hurt but still able to limp or walk being still night, we--three other correspond-banks of smoke grew more visible. More helped by another with an arm round ents and myself-were at a certain point aeroplanes passed overhead; always our the waist; some carried pick-n-back; sad- which we knew would be the best vantage owe, never one from the enemy's aide. dest of all, those who can only come on to move an arm or to look up and smile ground from which to watch the battle; Still the deafening roar of the guns went stretchers, some unconscious, sen able and it is unecessary to say that by now on, though it seemed as if there could be
they will always smile---but terrible we know each ridge and hollow of this nothing left to break or kill, and when, region pretty well
If bloud be the price of Liberty, It was inevitably by about 4:30, it was almost fall day-sights all of them. sume distance from the actual fighting; Fight though without any sign of a ann
Lord God, we ha' paid in full. too far, and the smoke and twilight of The clamour and the turmoil were not
Mr. Kipling will pardon the change of the morning, to see the front line of our one whit less terrible than they had been
But we have not yet, paid in infantry going into action, but near each minute since ye came. And still, word. nough so that guns were all round and whenever their voices could be heard, the full, for this thing has to go on, on till bitterness which he has brought upon the behind us, and in the darkness it seemed lark sang and the quail went an urging,the German has tasted to the dregs the
world. as if the heavens above were full of the Quick-be-quick! Quick-be-quick! whistle and furry of invisible wings from the shells passing overhead.
GERMAN FRONT BROKEN.
Happily to-day, from everything that We knew that our men were through; I can learn, the losses which we have in- I have already described bombardments: enough; but as a spectacle this was more and we believed that they had not come curred have been less than we had any COMPANION." stupendous than any that we have yet back. But it was only later, when bul- right to expect. In the first part of the sern, and our men engaged in the fight letins from this division and from that, day they were almost illogically light. as well as the German prisoners all say from one corps and acother, came in that In the afternoon, when the enemy seems to have in a measure rallied from the that they have known nothing like it. It. we began to understand how splendid-
had mor strongly fortified of the positions be- was a thick night, the sky veiled in clouds, hey incredible--our first sliceess
We had failed nowhere. We hadhind his front lines, we suffered more mottled and hurrying clouds, through been- which only one planet shone serene and swept the whole much-vaunted German severely. But for the tenth time in these steadily, high up in the eastern sky. But second line, in spite of all its long forti- later operations of this war it has been the wonderful and appalling thing was fication, over every red on which we had shown that in victories and sucessful the belt of flame which fringed a great attacked it. We had gone on--more than attack it is not the attacking side which Bre of the horizon before us. It was not,
once our men having to wait impatiently loses most seriously. There is no düßt. that we bave killed and wounded for of course, a steady flame, but it was one for our artillery fire ahead of them to
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with its own smoke, against which the stabs and jets of fire of the bursting shells flared out intensely white or dully orange. Out of it all, now here now there, rose Jake fountains the great balls of atar shells and signal lights--theirs or ours white and crimson and green. The noise of the shells was terrific, and when the guns earest to us spoke not only the air but the earth bencath us shook,
All the while too (though one shrinks from mentioning them again) overhead, amid all the clamour and shock, in the darkness and no less as night paled to day, the larks sang. Only now and again would the sung be audible, but whenever there was an interval between the roaring of the nearer gurs, above all the more distant tumult, it came down clear and very beautiful by contrast, Nor was the lark the only bird that was awake, for elose by us, somewhere in the dark, a quail kept censelessly urging usor the guns to be Quick-be-quick, -
OUR PRISONERS.
I myself have seen about 800 prisoners, all taken to-day and all taken by one of our divisions, and mostly of 16th, 190th, 1st, and 184th Regiments. Something over 300 were in one barbed wire cage. all captured in the early morning. Thu
Whether we could bold all these was another matter to be proved hereafter. The essential fact was that we had struck at the enemy where, after two years of
we saw several smaller parties on their preparation, he had, during the last 10 days, massed men and guns and machine. way down, and, finally, a detail of 70 guns to resist us--all that Germany in who were being employed at the dressing all her strengths could do and his front station mentioned to act as stretcher- Late in the afternoon we saw something bad braken and splintered into bits be-bearera, etc., carrying our wounded. fore us.
over 700 together whom, to be on the safe side, I assume to have included all those (except the party impressed for Red Cross work) whom we had seen before. These had been collected and were being march-
see.
Not that we learned these tidings all at once; for, after returning to our quarters for a short interval, we-one other correspondent and myself pushed out again to see how far we could follow up on the heels of victory. An hour beed along a railway track, a whole batta- forn oon we were out again beyond lion in strength; and they were good to where we had been at dawn, and since
One strange thing is to see the German then the day has been a bewildering chaos of experiences that one can never forget, wounded and our wounded coming un after attention at the dressing station, through all the Far off to the right the shimmering in threading one's way the sky told up where the beautiful French amazing sights of the British Armies in in ambulances together. There is abso guns were busy. On the left the region motion, so gigantic and so superbly lute impartiality in their treatment. of Ovillers-la Boisselfe was like a volcano orderly, past and nung batteries where saw in one ambulance five of our men and in violent eruption. But it was on the the detonation of each gun smote one with three Germans; in another two Germana ground immediately before us that the definite and stunning shock; through and the rest all ours these all king chief interest centred, for there, between the dust and interminable rhythmic pro-lightly wounded and able to sit up side 3 o'clock and 3.30, the great attempt waN cessions of marching med, of horses and by side. In another I saw a British and
* German officer together. to be made to drive home our successes of guns and transport columns; over succes the past 10 days by a smashing blow atsive lines of trenches and through ruiner the enemy's second line.
RAPID PREPARATION,
villages which a few days ago were Ger- man meeting details of primers being marched back and our own wounded And the beat, the dust, the noise, the suffering, and all were glorified by the thrill of victory that was in the air.
Saturday, July 5th.
THE GROUND FOUGHT OVKE.
One of the first things which prisoners want to do after they are taken and fed and rested is to write home. Some thou- sands of letters have been written by them since this battle began, and I gather from those whose duty it has been to rad these letters for purposes of censorship that there las hardly been one which bas not testified to the writer's astonishment at the kindness with which he has been treated. It is probably useless to suppose that these letters will have any effect in Germany or influence in any way the
It must be remembered that it was only from the day before that we had really barn in possession of Mametz Woud and Coatalinaison, After those were won there still remained minor positions to be- cleared out. Hardly had we been 24 hours fairly confronting the actual enemy It is necessary to explain briefly, per second line. We had worked-oh, how bapa, the importance of yesterday's dur men had worked during those pre-achievement-not its meral importance, cigas hours to get ready for this new at- but its actual military and strategic German treatment of our men. There
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We had done all we could to of the region, you will see that from the main a German; but it is best we should cedent and not that of the Hun which in confuse him by the ferocity of spasmodic low line the shallow valley of a little continue to be ourselves. It is our pre- bombardments which had given him no tributary of the River Ancre which runs rest, and we had worked, worked, work eastward from below Albert by the vil going to influence posterity; and if we ed; and I believe, when the history of lages of Mosuite, Bevordel-Becourt, Fri-fell entirely to his level the future of this war comes to be coolly written, that court, Mametz, and Carnoy, the ground bumanity would be dark. the rapidity with which we delivered this from a general level of about 250ft rises new and tremendous blow on the second steadily towards the north-east. line will be recognised as a great piece of generalship and of organization.
The whole front, was to be sinashed through. Beyond lay the villages of Bazentin-le-Grand and Bozentin-le-Petit, each with its great sheltering wood, and we know what these woods may mean.
It is at one point a short stretch of trench was fall of dips and hollows, but in general left untouched, our men sweeping by on the height has risen to about 300ft, at the either hand, and the men in it had later lower end of Mametz Wood. The high to be bombed out or taken prisoners. Our losses here were comparatively very point to the north end of the wood, be: tween it and Contalmaison, is nearly small, and so keen were our men, so far 350ft. It is about 100ft. where the Ger were they ahead of schedule time, that man second line ran, and it is 420ft, and they had to wait at one place till the How much of the front should we really 30ft, at Bazentin-le-Grand and Bazen artillery in front of them (which, of eourse, must be worked by the clock) lift- be able to break? Should we get through in-le-Petit. Still ascending, it touches at all or would it be a sheer physical im- 450ft on both sides of the lower end of ed to the German positions beyond and The pain goes right away and the swel-possibility? And then, these villages and High Wood and, just to the left of the enabled them to go on.
Beyond the lines the faces of the two ling itself disappears with a few applica woods, with, as the ultimate high-water wood, between it and the village of Mar time. It is utterly useless to suffer. It mark of our hopes, the end of the long tinpuich, it reaches the greatest height Bazentin woods were very strongly beld is useless to pay big doctor's, bills and rise culminating in the commanding of about 40ft. From that point it begins with machine-guns and rifles. Here our then to find yourself no better. For 1 position of High Wood. If only we could to fall away again. By Courcelette the wes were more serious, but still, as such Be. you can buy a bottle of
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