Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-07-07 | Page 2 | British Warned That Heavy Toll Will be Exacted

BRITISH WARNED THAT HEAVY TOLL VILL BE EXACTED LONDON, July 7, 12:10 a. m. Reuters Reu-ters correspondent at the press camp, British army in France, sends the following fol-lowing dispatch under date of July 6: . The impetuous forward movement of the entente allies has been checked but certainly not arrested. The allied armies are husily consolidating their gains and drawing a deep breath in readiness for the next mighty thrust. In the meantime they are battering, bombing and bayoneting the enemy by night and day with the most effective results. The fighting is reminiscent of the Verdun battle with the important distinction dis-tinction that the position is reversed and that the enemy has no such line upon line of fortified positions to retreat re-treat upon in the face of our smashing smash-ing blows, as the French have had defending their great fortress. At any moment the weakest link In the chain may snap and the broken ends fly apart. The enemy is straining every nerve. but is being attacked as never before. From the coast to the trenches of northern France on flowing streams of khaki are pouring in a literal flood and I am unable to resist the contagious confidence of our army correspondent who says: "Now that it is possible to write with some fullness full-ness the story of Saturday's attack, one almost shrinks from recording it, so terrible was the toil taken from the enemy." Modern warfare is terrible and no offensive is possible without the exaction of a dreadful toll. T Many of our regiments suffered heavily as they advanced, almost without cover in the face of a murderous mur-derous enemy fire, the machine guns in particular wreaking awful havoc. We must face the truth gravely of the heavy price we must pay and the ; nation must brace itself to the inex- j orable penalty.