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Show STOICAL BRITISH CH1EFT1IMS ELATED AT ARMY'S WORK Greatest Concentration of Artillery Fire Ever Directed Against a Given Area Brings Speedy Victory. ! ' BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE, July 14, 11 a. m., Via London, Lon-don, 7:33 p. m. Even the phlegmatic British generals and staff officers are showing elation ela-tion over the results this morning of the night attack against the German Ger-man 's second line, although careful care-ful to state that the great task against a powerful foe is only barely started. Soon after daylight day-light the joyful news of the British Brit-ish success slipped into a telephono message over the area occupied by the British army. As a spectacle to an eyewitness, this action of the second big stage of the battle of the Sornme surpassed sur-passed that of July 1. Taking needed ground for organizing new trenches and throwing out small parties, who dug themselves in, the army has been gradually gaining a position from Ovillera and La Boisselle to JVlontauban, a distance of four miles, from which to deliver de-liver a blow, until many points were within 200 yards of the German Ger-man second line. Meanwhile the shells of the British artillery could be seen cutting the wire and making mak-ing thorough preparations of which General Sir Douglas Haig, tho British Brit-ish commander, insists there is evi-j evi-j dence on every hand. Attack Begins Before Dawn. 1 ' Tomorrow morning at three, ' ' came the laconic word yesterday evening, "preceded by the usual intensive in-tensive preliminary bombardment, only a little hotter." The ground gained by the British Brit-ish on July 1, and in subsequent operations, ' gave the Associated Press observer a viewpoint from which the whole line of attack could be seen. The faint moonlight enabled the gunners dimly to see their work, the infantry and the contour of the ground. "This is a real daylight-saving show," said one of the gunners. j Number of Guns Breaks Record. Seemingty, as tho observer pushed audaciously close to tho German line, there was the greatest concentration of guns of all calibers cali-bers probably ever made in a given area. From behind the German trenches gained on July 1 darted the dagger flashes through a blanket blan-ket of night. One! Two! Three! Four! for battery after battery was shooting at high speed, from tho bottom of the hillside to the top. The scene of artillery power was no less indescribable than the thrilling suggestion of tho waiting infantry battalion liues which were seen going into positions before be-fore the battle. At tho moment the assault started it seemed there was no interval in the thunders as the guns moved forward their curtain of shell bursts in front of the first wave of infantry advancing across the zone between their trenches and the German linos. In the direction of Longueval a big firo was seen. It was the village vil-lage or a storehouse burning, as the bright spot was growing to a steady point in the field of gun , flashes. Then, soaring heavenward, went a rocket signal light which gave the positions gained in the attack. at-tack. Commanders in the rear answered an-swered with other signals, while what had been the German strongholds strong-holds half an hour or an hour before be-fore were burning red patches, spread with the sparks of roman candles. This method of communication communi-cation is a difficult part of the business of directing an army under . cover of darkness. Daylight Sends Air Scouts Out. At the first flush of dawn the first British aeroplano came humming hum-ming from its aerodrome toward tho German lines, and the sausage-shaped sausage-shaped observation balloons arose together into the air. Out of the blanket where the guns were flashing flash-ing arose the white slashes of the maze of old German trenches, the ribbons were roads and finally the dark masses became Mametz and other now famous woods, and the gaunt finger points the trunks of trees, which had shaded the highways, high-ways, but now were denuded of limbs by the shell fire. While the smoke barriers from the British lines were carried by favorable winds and the shells made other points of the line indistinct, the ridge of Longueval, where the British burrowed forward against commanding positions and a stubborn, stub-born, cunning and brave foe, was seen distinctly to be in their pos- (Continaed on Pago Two.) BRITISH 1 ELATED 1 IT WS WBI (Continued from Page One.) session. More lines of troops "w j moving- through the German c -tains of shell fire to the support f those who had gained the hotly s-sired s-sired summit ami now were look g down hill, where the German p is : are hidden, and with the Bapaiie ridge in the distance. Behind tl "i all was the organization which id plotted the action of the army tiT back of those were battalions acting act-ing their orders. A sergeant of artillery, of ha typical ruddy-faced "John Bi" type, sitting stiff on his horse iter a sleepless night directing the 'ol-umns 'ol-umns of caissons, hurrying uj Rm- munition to the greedy guns, llf'.i out: "Mind your wheel horse! s"ovv all together like I taught v to do." The wheels with their paddr and noiseless axles went up t li embankment em-bankment with every rider iing his straining mount. F |