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Show ENGLISH LOSE HEAVILY THROUGH GERMAN RUSE LONDON, July 4, 3:40 a. nf. Some broad general criticisms on certain aspects as-pects of the fighting in the first two days of the allied offensive are emphasized in later dispatches from correspondents at lieadq uarters. The British won in the south, where it was most essential to win the first dash. . In the north they made less progress prog-ress and at some places in this section, after the first advance, they have fallen back on their original positions. The situation situ-ation in the north must remain obscure I until the Issue of the struggle, which Is still continuing for crucial positions In I this extremely difficult country, especially at Serre and Thiepval. Where the British have won. reports continue to insist that their losses, on the whole, are comparatively small. They suffered most from the German machine guns and perhaps the automatic rifles. The German system of defense was everywhere every-where the same. They had enormouslv deep dugouts, some of them thirty feet or more beneath the surface, such as are easily dug in this hilly and chalkv country. coun-try. The moment the bombardment lifted the men in the dugouts emerge! and manned their machine guns before the attackers had time to cross the intervening inter-vening space. Tn the actual fighting the British soldiers sol-diers did not, as a rule, advance at double dou-ble quick. Most charges were made at a walk or a pace very nearly a walk. A new German ruse is described in a Daily News dispatch, which says that at one place a large number of Germans came out of their dugouts, holding up their hands and waving white flags. They were rounded up and left under guard After the main body of the British "troops had gone on, more Germans poured out of their burrows, outnumbered and overpowered over-powered the guard, released the prisoners and began attacking the British troops from the rear. |