Show ii r i 1 Conquerors A f 1 Eat Defeated I H E M w Foes Foe's Meal 4 t German Garrison Surprised and a l Cap Captured While Preparing Pre Pre- paring paring Their Breakfast i hr cla British Devour j c Copyright 1910 1916 by the Associated t M t. t Press i i ITH TIlE BRITISH AR ARMIES mS w w- w wITH f. f wr i VV IN Iv FRA FRANCE NCE Nov Nm 13 via ia LonI Lon- Lon I r 1 I lon clon Xo Nov J. 1 The Thc The Germans were a ap ap- i completely surprised h by this tills l tl s 's attack in t the e valley they te ot of the I 1 An evidence of this was found i t in in n the fact t that at the garrison g of the trenches around Beaumont i rn ere vere T preparing for breakfast at the t I very Seery moment when t the J JC British I I III i 11 iry stormed the Hie position lion Z The The British after partially clearing the underground galleries and round round- 1 Jn in up O prison prisoners t rs proceeded to cat cut their 1 prisoners prisoners' prisoners telling the thees es es that would woul be Le fed fell when tho they arrived within the British h line lines line to A total of nearly prisoners has hasso so far tar been sent to the ca cages c Including x a rc regimental commander who was captured cap- cap flu red in a a dugout with a l major an ad adjutant adjutant adjutant ad- ad and a number of or other officers T z The majority of lf the tho prisoners arc and according to the British VCr very Inferior fighting maI ma ma- The German hi higher her command I depended n apparently on the supposedly f impregnable character r of or the old front frontline line and it its strongly fortified village e rather than on the stamina of or the troops The officers believe that the tho withdrew their best t men for service enice elsewhere on th the British front Bent where whore the thc new 1111 and shallower positions Ito to which the defenders have been forced demanded ndell greater resisting power on I the part of oC the infantry to ki The British losses losse were wele unusually j right Night light owing owin- largely to t Uio tiro lo un unexpectedly unexpected unexpected- 1 J ly feeble character of ot the tho German ma- ma maj maI j I Nine hin gun un fire at Beaumont nt Hamel and ami i l. l Pierre DIvion ion Largo Large numbers o of ernan dC dead r found strewn In the i wrecked trenches of the original main dine This line con consisted isted f r four parallel paral- paral I tIel lel roads of oc the last being e i flush Clush with wilh the western fines face nee of oC Beaumont Beaumont Beau Benu- mont Hamel For some days past the sector at attacked attacked at at- tacked lacked today tolla and the area behind have ha been subjected to successive bombardments bombardments bombard bombard- i I Ir ments ment which ro rose roso e to a record pitch In the demolition demoll- demoll yesterday r arid resulted tion lion o of a large part of or the defenses The garrison ac accepted the mornings morning's s 's deluge cf of shells a as part of the usual UR dail dally daily pro program ram and did not fully realize their danger er until the British Infantry was seen eon approaching In the darkness The British advance ance north of ot B Beaumont Beaumont Beau Beau- all all- mont Hamel was hold held up on a front about 1000 yards west vest of oC Serre The Ther r I first detachment det captured some GerI German German Ger Ger- man trenches and passed eastward I toward the ilI village c Sudden Suddenly hidden machine guns un and infantry snipers scattered c. in great profusion In the tho craters craters craters cra cra- I and shelters b began gan firing In the tho backs s of oC the tho attacking troops and nI ne necessitated necessitated ne- ne their withdrawal North of ot I Serro the thc British g gained ground round but butI I owing lewing win to the failure of or the advance Immediately Immediate south the position is subjected subjected subjected sub sub- I to an enfilading nillIng nil lIng tire fire from rom higher ground round In the neighborhood of oC the theil vil vil- vil r lage A number of oC Isolated pockets are rue cleared of oC Germans In the intervening intervening I ing ground between Beaumont Hamel and ami sur Beaucourt The British are arl firmly established on the western out outskirts of or the latter hamlet The Tho remaining fragments if lf the old GerI German Ger- Ger I man line lino Immediately south of ot the An- An I An-I I ere which were wore pinched out b by the I British flank pivoting to th the tho northeast t around the elbow of or the stream m had been partially isolated since the the capture capture cap cap- ture of or Schwaben redoubt Three hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred Germans the tho only survivors of the bombardment ment were captured in an extensive e system of river side caves enes Prior to the attack the tho only communication cation between these caves and tho the German rear was by a n causeway across the he which could only be bo traversed tray trav erse at nl night hl |