Sherbrooke daily record, 10 août 1918, samedi 10 août 1918

[" Sherbrooke Dafly Record.Established 1 897 SHERBROOKE, QUE., SATURAY, AUGUST 10, 1918.Twenty-second Year C Von Hutier In Full Retreat From Mont Didier Anglo-French Advance Continues Along Whole Line Victory Grows With Every Hour; German Line is Failing Back; Abandon Prisoners to Allies Mont Didier Captured i t \u2014\t¦\t~\tc c LONDON, August l O.\u2014The important town of ; Mont Didier, which was approximately at the ; ° apex of the German salient south of the Somme, 1 ° has been captured by the Allies.\t1 'oqopqpqPQ g Æ&ggflÆiiJLSLSJLgJLiLSLOJLÎLiLiOULSULiLiULiLSLjLSJt-SJLSJL^ WITH THE CANADIAN FORCES IN VICTORIOUS ADVANCE Germans Likely to Abandon Whole Mont Didier Salient\u2014 Many Towns Fall Before Advance\u2014High Officers Captured With Their Staffs\u2014Enemy Resisting Advance With Rear Guards Armed With Machine Guns.VON HUTIER RETREATING ON MONT DIDIER LINE.PARIS, August 10.\u2014The German army of General Von Hutier is retreating from the Mont Didier-Noyon line.The German line from Mont Didier to Noyon is between twenty-five and thirty miles in length and forms a semi-circle, swinging southeast from Mont Didier to the south of Noyon.A retirement on this line probably means the Germans are going to give up the Mont Didier salient, which would be the first marked consequence of the Franco-British offensive in Picardy.The retrograde movement of the Germans is being accelerated by the favorable progress of the new attack south of Mont Didier.FRENCH SURROUND MONT DIDIER.PARIS, August 10.\u2014The French began a movement southeast of Mont Didier last night and virtually have that place surrounded, according to the official statement of the War Office today.The towns of Assanvillers and Rubescourt were captured and the French reached Faverolles, less than two miles east of Mont Didier.Northwest of Mont Didier the French have advanced east of Arvillers, six miles northeast of Roye, and have captured Davenescourt, two miles east of Pierrepont, The War Office statement follows: \u201cThe French troops operating on the right ot the L.forces continued their success throughout last evening and last night.Our troops progressed east of Arvillers and captured Davenescourt and Assanvillers and reached Faverolles.\u201d MANY MORE THAN 20,000 PRISONERS.PARIS, August 1 0.\u2014Many more than twenty thousand prisoners have been captured by the Allies, the Havas Agency reports the newspapers as saying.ADVANCE THIRTEEN MILES.LONDON, August 10.\u2014When the French captured Beaufort Friday they had made an advance of thirteen miles eastward from Castel.This is the maximum infantry advance of the present offensive thus far reported.COLONELS AND COMPLETE STAFFS CAPTURED.WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, August 9.\u2014The French continued their progress northwest of Mont Didier today, reaching the line Courtemanche-Pierrepont-Hangest and increasing the number of prisoners to 4,000, including three colonels with their complete staffs.So quickly did the infantry push on with the supporting tanks that the colonels were caught while putting on their leggings.The soldiers captured manifested joy that the war was over for them and pounced upon the provisions given them like famished men.The officers showed ill-humor and grumbled because they had to walk to the rear and could not ride.The resistance of the enemy infantry and machine gun detachments appeared stronger today on the French sector.The reaction of the enemy\u2019s artillery was relatively more feeble than on Thursday.The French took a number of guns, which at once were turned against the enemy.The booty captured by the French was large, but naturally less than that captured by the British.BATTLE SPREADING NORTH TO ARRAS.(Canadian Pre*» Despatch) LONDON, August 10.\u2014The Picardy battle is spreading to the south of Arras, the Pall Mall Gazette says this afternoon.Heavy fighting occurred this morning in the battle area, with the Allies making satisfactory progress and taking large numbers of prisoners.CASUALTIES NO NAMES FROM QUEBEC IN TODAY\u2019S LIST.(Canadian I\u2019rnss Despatch) OTTAWA, ONT., Aur.10 \u2014 Today's list of 69 cnsualties includes five killed in action; five died of wounds; six died; two reported dead by Germans, one missing, believed drowned; one missing,; thirty five wounded, eleven gassed, five ill and two prisoners of war.There are no men from the Province of Quebcu.THE WEATHER FAIR AND MODERATELY WARM; SUNDAY, MOSTLY FAIR AND WARM.Since yesterday morning rain has fallen over Saskatchewan and Manitoba, also over the southern part of the Maritime Provinces.Fair and moderately warm; Sunday, immtly fair and warm, but ahowern or thunderstorms in ftoinn localities.Men of Dominion Fought Beside Australians\u2014Canadian Cavalry Take Important Part\u2014Enemy Taken By Surprise \u2014Astounded to Find They Were £urrrendering to Canadians\u2014Story of Fight as Told By Canadian Correspond-ent LAST MINUTE BULLETINS VON HUTIERS RETIREMENT GAINS SPEED Rear Guards Fighting Desperately to Save Hun Army from Destruction.(Canadian Press Despatch) PARIS, August 10.\u2014The retreat of Von Hutier\u2019s army is showing trac- VON HUITER\u2019S RETREAT CUT OFF\u2014POSITION IS PRECARIOUS.* (Canadian Press Despatch) PARIS, August 10.\u2014Von Huiter\u2019s retreat from Mont Di- & dier was cut off when the * French captured Faverolles.@ The German position along the & Mont Didier-Roye road is pre- ifc carious.\t# * ###########*##*# es of utmost haste.Much war material is being left behind.The German rearguards are fighting desperately.24,000 PRISONERS, NOON OFFICIAL American Troops Now Taking Fart in Advance on Somme.(Canadian Press Despatch) LONDON, Aug.10\u2014(Noon)\u2014The number of prisoners taken from the Germans in the fighting in the Picardy has increased to twenty four thousand, today\u2019s War Office statement announces.American troops delivered an attack in the angle between the Somme and the Ancre and achieved a considerable success.The British and American troops captured the town of Morlancourt between the Somme and the Ancre.-\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 If BATTLES IN THE AIR BATTLE LINES EXTENDED SIXTEEN MILES (Associated Press Despatch) LONDON, Aug.10 \u2014 The new attack by the French has extended the battle line some sixteen miles further to the southeast in the Mont Didier area.In this movement the French scored an advance of four miles in six hours.To the north the important junction of Chaulnes is now quite untenable for the Germans, as it is well within the fire of the British field guns.The 100 guns added to the 200 previously captured by the Allies were taken by the French in this morning\u2019s fighting.The opinion in London today was that the enemy could not now possibly hold any sort of a line until he reached the Somme and the canal from Nesle to Noyon.That would make a maximum retreat of twenty miles.Roughly speaking the allied advance in two days on a front of twenty miles has been twelve miles.On the British front splendid progress is being made and the average twelve mile progress forward was an infantry advance, with the cavalry, tanks and armoured cars well ahead of the infantry and pressing the retreating enemy.ONE HUNDRED MORE GUNS ARE TAKEN.\u2022« (Canadian Press Despatch) LONDON, August 10.\u2014One hundred additional guns have been taken by the Allies.GERMANS TRYING TO SAVE GUNS AND STORES.(Canadian Press Despatch) LONDON, August 10.\u2014Canadian cavalry which is operating close to Chaulnes report that the enemy is fighting strong rearguard actions, in order to enable the stores of ammunition and guns to be removed from that town.MONT DIDIER WAS SURROUNDED AT 9 TODAY (Canadian Press Despatch) PARIS, Aug.10\u2014By nine o\u2019clock this morning Mont Didier had been surrounded.Only a small number of Germans with machine guns was then inside the town.Sixty-five German Machines Destroyed First Day of Battle.(Associated Press Despatch) j LONDON, August 10.\u2014 Sixty-five S German airplanes were destroyed by British aviators or driven down out | of control in the fighting of August Î 8, when the Allied offensive in Pic-¦ ardy opened, last night\u2019s official .statement on aviation operations shows.I Fifty British machines are missing, the British losses being due chiefly to fire from the ground.The statement follows : | \u201cOn August 8 our airplane squadrons co-operated with other arms on the battlefront throughout the day.| The line reached by our attacking in-! fantry was reported by our contact airplanes.The positions of the hos-j tile artillery in action and columns of German infantry and transport on the march were signalled to our 1 guns by our artillery machines.Other , machines supplied our advance troops 1 with ammunition from the air.j \u201cCo-operation with the tanks was carried out systematically.Our machines assisted the tank crews with 'information, attacked some strong j points and other opposition with I bombs and machine-gun fire, and by | dropping some smoke bombs along j the line of their advance, assisted to ] conceal the approach of the tanks j from the enemy.\u201cOur contact machines working with the cavalry rendered valuable services.Flying low in front of our advancing line, our fighting squadrons shot at and bombed the enemy in his retreat, causing havoc amom the masses of hostile troops and transports on roads congested with traffic.\u201cOur bombing squadrons flying a few' hundred feet from the ground at-| tacked trains, railway junctions and I bridges.\"Forty-eight hostile machines are reported as destroyed by our airplanes and seventeen others were driven down out of control.Five hostile balloons were shot, down in flames.Fifty of our machines are missing, most of these casualties being due to fire from the ground.One of our night-flying machines also failed to return.\u201d ! \u201cOn August 9 our airmen continued the work of co-o-perating with the British infantry, artillery, cavalry and tanks on the battlefront.German troops and transports were again attacked with bombs and machine gun fire from a low height whenever a suitable target offered.The Somme bridges were heavily bombed by day and night.\u201cElsewhere along the British front the activity in the air has been slight, but the ordinary work of photography reconnaissance and observation has been carried on.\u201d BRITISH OFFICIAL STATEMENT Tells of Victorious Advance of Allies\u2014Prisoners Exceed 24,-000 Now.LONDON, Aug.10.\u2014The British official statement follows: \u201cYesterday afternoon and evening the advance of the Allied armies continued on the whole front from south ! of Mont Didier to the Ancre \u201cFrench troops, attacking south of Mont Didier during the afternoon captured Le Tronquoy, Le Fretoy and Assainvillers, threatening Mont Didier from the southeast.Over two thousand prisoners were captured by our allies in this sector.\u201cCanadian and Australian divisions have taken Bouchair, Meharicourt and Lihons and have entered Rainecourt and Proyart.\u201cIn the evening English and American troops attacked in the angle between the Somme and the Ancre, and met with immediate success.By nightfall all the objectives had been taken, including the village of Mor-1 lancourt and the high ground southeast of it.Counter-attacks launched by the enemy in this sector were beaten off after sharp fighting.\u201cThe prisoners captured by the Allies since the morning of August 8 exceed 24,000.\u201d (By J.F.B.Livesay, Canadian Press correspondent in France) WITH THE CANADIAN FORCES, August 10.\u2014Although the full fruits of the great victory on the Somme are not yet garnered, enough is known at this time to place it among the imperishable deeds of arms in this war.The Canadian force held an honorable position in the Allied armies which attacked the enemy lines on a twenty mile front.The Canadians went over the top at twenty minutes past four on August 8, and sixteen minutes thereafter the first prisoners began to come in.By eight o\u2019clock a large part of the initial objective had been captured.The victory has been notable for a number of things.For the first time the Canadian cavalry found itself on the same battlefield with the infantry.For the first time, too, the Canadian force employed tanks in large numbers, both of the heavy and \u201cwhippet\u201d varieties.Also it was the first time that Canadians had fought side by side with their brethren from Australia.The victory, however, is notable chiefly for the wonderful staff work that alone made it possible.There was no artillery preparation in the usual sense of the word.The men went in immediately behind the barrage and kept up with it as it lifted.The Boche was taken completely by surprise, and prisoners were astounded to find they were surrendering to the Canadians.Canadians Eager for Fray.The Canadians never went into «J* ¦*£»\t«J* *J» »J*\t?J»- «*, , ,j, * * * * * action with more irrepressible eagerness and determination not to be refused than they did Thursday.On Thursday, though tired from a \u2019 march that permitted little rest before the battle, they went over the top with the unbeatable spirit of the men who fought and died at Ypres, on the Somme, and in a dozen glorious fields.It was a dear, starry night, with the faint light of dawn touching the eastern sky.Of a sudden, with one deafening pulse, the roar of guns broke out.Far to the right was the flicker of the French 75\u2019s and of the American field guns and heavies.Immediately on the Canadian flank the Australians put up a great show in a sector where they had fought for several days past.Beyond them the Im» perial troops were in action.Dense Fog Interfered First Day.Unfortunately, on the first day's fighting as the dawn increased the visibility became poor.A dense fog swept down into the valleys.Whila this was protection against machine gunners, it greatly increased the difficulties of the troops finding their way over unknown ground.In the first day\u2019s fighting the Canadian losses were not unduly heavy.One unit had rather heavy casualties in its first attack, but succeeded in taking its objective after the tanks had ccme to its reinforcement.Owing to the poor visibility, there was little fighting ig the air on Thursday over the Canadian sectors.?\tCANADIAN AND AUSTRA- ?\tLIAN CAPTURES.?\t- *> (Canadian Press Despatch) ?\tLondon, Aug.10.\u2014It is offic-?1* ially announced that Canadian 4* and Australian forces captured