OCR Text |
Show ALLIES RENEW THE ATTACK WHEN THE WEATHER PERMITS By 0. F. BERTELLI. " (Spf. i a l ruble hy ArraiiRomonl with London Dally Irlff.rapli ami I n Lei -national News Sim-vice.) I'A HIS. Oct. 8. When, after a week's I'ain, a tine spell of weather came yesterday, yester-day, General Foeh advanced his line on n fl e-mile, front to a depth attaining mile at some places. General Fayolle was ordered to -reach the outskirts of Sailly Saillisel, which, when t lie Sommo offensive began, constituted the easlmost bastion of t he German line "between l-'eronne and Uupanme. defending defend-ing the plain leading- to Cumbral. It was t lie eastern army corps, consisting consist-ing mostly of Parisian drafts, that went Into battle. So thoroughly had the artillery artil-lery pulverized (he defense works of the Germans th;it the ob.jeet.ives were reached within an hour and the position was thoroughly thor-oughly consolidated against counter attacks. at-tacks. Two hours later the Carlsbad, Teplitz n nd Berlin trenches, us well as the do-3-nsea on the outskirts of SL Pierre Vaaat wood, were carried in an Irresistible onrush. on-rush. Eyewitnesses tell mo that the German finny never nuido a poorer allowing-. The (shortage in shells, which the French staff li'id lung suspected, whs evident yesterday yester-day from the few ill-timed barrages the Oormans turned on the attackers. Their infantry, nevertheless, fought fiercely, conies con-ies I ing every defense work left unsliat-tt unsliat-tt red by t lie French gunfire. The Germans Ger-mans made no big counter attacks during dur-ing i hit four hours of daylight that remained re-mained after the French advance. Reports readied the staff late in the r ening that showed the German lino was worn thin at Sailly, and a violent cruss-jire cruss-jire vwas Immediately turned .in bv the French batteries, pinning these troops in thMr rear trenches and inflicting serious loss. Questioning of prisoners revealed the fact that the Germans rushed the reserve re-serve battalions hi automobiles to the move menaced sectors, but in a force insufficient in-sufficient to prevent General Fayo'.Ie from taking tho ohje tives assigned to him. His men are now 2u0 yards from Saillv Sailhscl and are also enveloping strnnglv the fortified St. Pierre Yaast wood, "an area of Tt'O square yards, and one of the last strongholds of the Germans north of Pcronne. Ome this wood is canied General Fayolle will have simplified the task of inducing the ttnal rampart. Mount St. Quentin, from " which the German gui:s re now rliiug In serried rows. |