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WAR'S DARK DAYS

(Continued from page 6.)

FRENCH MIRCALOGLATED

The French on our right were aa fully aware of the monstrona concentration bahind the enemy's front as our own intel ligence officers, but they were convinced that at least half of this weight would fall against themselves in the opening stage of the battle.

It was a miscalculation. The full weight of the German blow was burled against the British lines on a forty-five

largely on to brigadiers and battalion. officers. They did glorious work and their courage never failed throughout those days.

WILL HOLD OUT TO LAST.

I am writing this report with ope hand and firing a rifle with the other," was a mesange required from Gederal Grimths of the Ulster Division, when his headquarters were almost surrounded by Germans. English, Irish and Scottish battalions fought heroic rearguard actions. until they were overwhelmed. A colonel of the 6th Division reported:-

mile front, between Bullecourt, north.cf Situation impossible without rein, Bapaume, and La Fere, south of St. forcements, but will hold on till the last." Quentin. That ground was held on the And he was seen leading twenty sur north by the 3rd British Army, under vivors against a 135ss of German troops. General Sir Julian Byng and by the 5th That, 6th Division lost 80 per cent. pt Army a the south ander General Sir its infantry in forty-eight hours by desperate fighting against hopeless odds, Hubert Gough; and forty-eight British and other divisions heavily. When divisions were attacked in the course of the Ulsternien were relieved by the French 158th Division, aiter five days of rear- this offensive by 114 German divisions of guard fighting the French general was picked and specially trained storm troops, unable to detrain his men quickly swing Three were overwhelming odds and the to heavy fire on the railway and asked -the Irishmen to go on fighting until he luck of war was on their side at the be- could get to their rosition. General ginning of the battles. Our new systemNugent, commanding the Ulster Division. of defence on the 8th Army front by which sent a tragic message: -- qur front line was held by a series of machine gun redoubts in advance of the main battle positions played into the hands of the German's new method of attack owing to the foggy weather in which the offensive opénéd,

The enemy's new form of assault, which they had first tried against the Italians with startling success, was what is now known as infiltration." That is to say while they were attacking frontally ander the cover of storms of high explo- Kives and gas shells and feeling for weak nesses in their enemy's line they widened any gap they might make and dribbled through machine-gunners of high skil and courage with orders to penetrate an deeply as they could and with the assur- ance that they would be followed, and supplied by a continuous chain of mer also relying exclusively on machine-gun Are

Do impresa the French general that I can give him only 300 sound mer

WORST: HAD HAPPENED.

By this time the worst bad happened. In spite of the help of French cavalry and the French seth Division, which had come up to our aid at Guiseard, we could not siia the German tide, which was now in full speed across our old battle- Belds, and our 19th. Corps with the 68th and 24th Division, with the 30th, with the 20th, 18th, and 8th supporting, were, after fearful losses in rear-guard actions, unable to hold the crossings the Somme, and the enemy passed over the bridges at St. Christ and Bric, which had hot been blown up in time. And as General Gough had said

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1 we lose the line of the Somme the situation will be serious."

The way was open to Amiens and the

So it happened that although the great-only force that barred the way was a

the

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er part of our 3rd Army front held on to their trenches against the German frontal attacks which they met with withering fire causing immense slaughter ranks, they found them selves under deadly machine gun are from their left and right flanks by bodies of men who were driving wedges between them in ever-increasing number which threatened to cut in behind them and bar any way of escape.

NEW SYBTE AIDED GERMANS..

On our 5th An front our system of

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miscellaneous, crowd of stragglers collect. all these divisions which had lost most ed inder brigadier named Carey, from of their men in a fighting retreat, supple-

clerks, by

and mented

signallers from headquarters and a gallant section of Canadian armoured cars: It WAL *Carey's force which

ich saved Amiens in the days of greatest peril until the Aus to tralians came down from Flanders strengthen our line and the French rush- ed up to defend its southern approaches.

I saw many scenes of that retreat from St. Quentin to Amiens and from Bapaume the midst of its turmoil and tragedy. were terrible days when all that we gained seemed lost. But even then the

redoubts and the fog, which enveloped to Albert and the Aucre and was d

them so that our machine gunners could not see twenty yards ahead made this

of attack easy,

The German

The Line sections pushed in between courage of our men and the heroic

the redoubts, surrounded them, and then drove arrow heads inte our main battle position"

and continued their policy of overwhelming while masses of men followed up every ad vantage gained in this

sacrifice of the rear-guards who fought to the death so that the German onslaught should be checked made one feel that Eng

be defented fand could not,

whatever bar. pened.

It would be absurd to pretend that our retreated always in good order, and

The British troops with eno that none of them were panicky when t mous heroism and the German dead lay in heaps before their lines, but this now method of attack surprised and confused

there were gaps in our line and Germans on each side of them. Panic there was

them and ivisional staffs were amazed here and there among certain bodies of

when they

men who fell back too soon from posi-. reports of the enemy tions they might have held for a longer having broken through to

time.

behind several

of Contradictory orders, were issued, mis takce were made by generals and staff officers, the crossings of the Somme were lost too easily though God noWS MARY men died to hold them and if there had

the battle lines, or as hap times, gained their first danger by heating the attle of German machine gun fire outside their huis

The

of the forward redoubts

had been of them know.

een quickly overwhelmed but many 甜 the as we now ires had been destroyed at once by German gun fire but by means of a buried cable there came several messages from Manchester Hills redoubt near St. Quentin. It was the colonel of the 16th Manchesters who spoke "and he said-

bees more forethought he find our battle systems and switch lines behind All telephone wires

with all their positions the Germans

We are entirely surrounded, but we are putting up, a good fight."

Later he said:---

"Nearly all men are wounded, and the Germans are swarming round like

wolves. They have got into the redoubt.” The last message came at 3.30 in the afternoon, eight hours after the begin ring of the battle, when the enemy had broken into our main positions sad the forward redoubts were far behind the German lines. The colonel's last words

The 16th Manchesters,

were

be said,

Weck so far.

W

of men might never have driven The

British

army was a human machine Bat and no such had its weaknesses. these English, Scottish and Irish troops fought for the most part with high, grim courage, often in isolated groups stand- ing amidst their dead and dying and selling their own lives dearly unless sur rounded and captured.

glorious,"

& gen

My men are era of Yorkshire troops, but so tired that being attacked is the only thing that keeps them awake. The Germans them- selves paid a tribute to the Scottish troops of the 51st Division. In a message mont over in a small balloon they wrote:

Good old Fifty-first! Still sticking it ! Chcery-O!!

Inselend

the redoubt to theAll our troops kept sticking it," with

of that first d By the

day many Bri- tish divisions had been forced to give ground and fell back to prevent them selves being cut off. In the north the enemy had forced a wedge between the Sth and $1st Divisions on the 3rd Army front, and was driving towards Bapaume. Un the right of had broken through line the

in several places tween the 30th and 36th (Ulster) Divi- sions, and between the 14th and 5th (London) Divisions, near St. Quentin, and were advancing on to Han towards the crossings of the Somme,

GENERAL RETREAT ORDERED.

be

few

exceptions, and for many days and nights, fell back fighting against over- whelming numbers, wears, dazed, spent, for lack of sleep or rest

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