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Show IfimllliOMl eSMJI 11 a . MUM! $kM w -MMlLn I COUNTER ATTACKS KEPT OP FIERCELY General Byng's Strategy Strat-egy Prevents Enemy From Attaining Object; Ob-ject; British Withdraw Men and Guns Quickly Quick-ly and Then Advance; Lose a Few Cannon and 4000 Prisoners, PRUSSIANS BEATEN ON NORTH FLANK Line Is Maintained Near Bourlon and Moeuvres; English Continue the Battle; Have Recaptured Recap-tured the Village of Gonnelieu and Vicinity. Vi-cinity. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, Uee. 1. Takinff all the circumstances into consideration the British experts seem, to be fairly vrell satisfied with the situation in the Cambrai see tor. General Byng's lines have not been so badly indented by the prententious German pincers attack on both, flanks that the English commander command-er need fear disastrous consequences. Had the Germans not been driven back from his points of greatest advance the situation -would undoubtedly be considered consid-ered serious, but the net gains of the enemy are chiefly in and around Villers Guislain, which is just south of the point where the new Byng line merged into the old. Tho enemy recovered some of the ground lost in Byng's advance, ad-vance, notably the village of Lavae-querie, Lavae-querie, but was driven back. In this region the British have virtually nullified nulli-fied the German gains, while on the northern flank the Germans were driven back almost to the line from which they started. Fighting Continues. The German attar k was one of great magnitude and resulted in corresponding correspond-ing losses, and though British losses were considerable they were compensated compen-sated for by the fact that the major object of the enemy was frustrated. Today the British continued their counter-attacks and pushed the enemy out of Gonnelieu. One hundred thousand Teuton "shock troops, ' ' every one of them with a "song td .iiato" in his heart, flung ' themselves against General Byng 's army in a huge triple attack before Cambrai nt dawn yesterday. All de.y long raged the fiercest battle yet fought in this war between Teutons and Britons. Xot until today was the result re-sult made known. Both sides waited twenty-four hours for a decision. Result is Satisfactory. The British admittedly suffered a setback. But measured by the gigantic-effort gigantic-effort of the foe and the results manifestly mani-festly exjuvted from it by him, the outcome out-come is reya rded as relatively more than satisfactory. Driven bin k fully two miles bv the initial Tea I ou onslaught, Byn g 's "armv rallied for a strong counter attack and in it snatched n:?ve than half a mile back from t he G ernia ns. Berlin of t'ici all v announced the capture cap-ture of -Mon British and several batteries. bat-teries. The recapture ot Gonnelieu and Villers Guislain villages and of the heights on the west bajik of the yohcldt (Continued on Pase Fifteen.) ) BRITISH ME LOST POSITIONS (ContinnoU from TaRe 0na,2 on both muc of Uantei iiImi were reported re-ported h the German war oHire, which isoited t!at the Hnth were thrown back to tho Gnuiieourt AnneuxA'uti lain bne on the northern side ot livne, s original vcd;;e in the German line, Political Move Seen. Political i'onddonitioiM o erluuiow ed ,the immediate military stvai.'-y mo lives undt il the German lnasod ; M.snult, it i.-i belieevl. They were: I "i impair PriU-di. protie at tho , Paris coal creneo. I J - To help nloipi the Teuton pence- di ive deii:ned tit make llusin and ; Italy, and- ultimately al! bclbiierents to ijuit th- war. ;; To back up the 'virtorv Moe.hcs" of Chancellor vp" Heithm; ar.-i Porei'U Minister von Knohleniaun , in the ridehta-j. nt the ame tune put ! tin that bodv into a pliable mood to vute a I'.uo new war credit. ! Prom 0. militarv standpoint the Ger- ; mans bv their counter drive aimed: 1 1 To restore their linos and save Piunbrai, 2 To force a continuance of the main British effort here in order to re iieve the Vlanders front. t 'Po restore German morale, seri-ously seri-ously impaired by 14vn$ 's recent sue cesses. Pinccr Tactics Ajjain. The ftttaik was Mauuched after the pet fashion of the Teuton militarv school pincor tactics. Bv tackling tho British at the two f!ank--not the flank? of tho advance base line of the salient, but whore tho two sides join with the original Krit ih li no - - the German commander tried for a bold convert mo emeu t behind t ho Krit ish thirl armv. and thus to cut it off and recapture thereby tho entire ground lot to Foii. a Cain between five and ix miles iieop on a front of sen.o oievcu miles.. In this mam object the Clermaus I failed. Thev failed becaut-o Bvn;,' beat them at Oieir own vaunted canie--iron discipline. For "Riro" r tic one of tho school of Bntih generals tliat makes diciplino the alpha and the onica of all its teachings. He has been known for years as one of thoe w ho insist on " parade in the morn-mi;, morn-mi;, parade in the afternoon, parade in the evening. ' ' British Draw Rack. That tort of trainins saved hi? arniT yesterday. Grasping at a flash the trap tho onemv wns ;ettiiiir roadv to spri nc he iravo the coia ma 1 to his ! ma in ad van ed forct- s, 1 'raw back. ' ' I Thev didn't like it a bit. His L!n-i L!n-i ! ish-Seott ih- Welh comb mat ion v. as : a? full of impetuous fihtin fervor as ever, and felt like hittm back on tiio instant and yield not an inch. Hut their commander's doctrine had lon beecnie a religion with them, mid back thev drew, fighting all the tin:e. Iater, when thev heard what was poTnu on in the two flank sectors, they thanked their stars for Bingo' Byng. It was an exemplary f ight ing ret ire men t in point of order and deduction of guns and materia s that mi'ht have fallen into the eLcray's hanup- 8ir Douglas llai made only refereace to the Gambrai battie in bis day report : "On the Pambrai battle front the Germans duging the night made no effort ef-fort to renew their principal attacks.'' I Front dispatches, however, told of renewed bitter fighting ensuing ia successive suc-cessive British counter-attacks. Shift to the North. Mearwhile the German heavy guns have begun a strong bombardment in the Scarpe valley to the north, indicating, indicat-ing, perhaps, a blow t here, aimed at preventing the British from drawing reinforcements from that front. The tanks asrain took an important part in yesterday's battle, particularly whoa the British came back. They had been swept out of Lateau wood, La Yaequerie, Gonnelieu. Villers Gui-slain Gui-slain and Gouzoaucourt, but later took all but Gonnelieu and Villers Guislain. When the Germans saw Byng had parried par-ried their main blows and that there was no chance of trapping a whole army, they scattered t heir at tacks along the two sides of the salient. The French at Verdun maintained their lines against a violent German attack oq the right bank of the Meue. |