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Show FIGHT FIERCE 01 nan uk Huns Make Every Effort to Retain Defense Against British. Enemy Combs Cookhouses and Depots; Need of Men Desperate. By PHILIP GIBB3. Nw V or h Times-Chir aeo Tribune Cable. Copyright. ) ) W A U CORRESI ON K NTS- HE A D- Q1 "A RTt;KS. Oc t. 4. This morning when I went up from Hellenglise to Beliicourt j ami along the great t unnl where the Scheldt canal goes under the ground for f several mile:, there- was a heavy gunning j on tho left of Gouy and Le Catclet and j in the direction of Montbrehain and I Bcaurvo!r, where tiiere was fierce fight- big yrs erday, continuing throughout the ! nlu'ht and resumed toda y. Thei e a fa-j fa-j mot: a Fmglish division added to its rec-I rec-I ord jestrday by capturing .,H more prisoners ;i t Wiaii'-ouri. and the outskirts I of Mori 1 1 're! -a in, where they had heavj I fighting. j It was probably some of these men T saw ma rchhig ba. k this morning shortly a;" ter dawn, when mists ere while on the fields and dead trees on the skyline ab.ie the canal wcie faintly penciled as masts of .shins in sea fog. Through this gra ness and high thistles that grow between be-tween slicil craters and trenches came a long column of Germans, guarded by a few "men with fixed bayonets. Prisoners Many. I watched them as they passed from the bat tie line in their long gray over-coa over-coa ts and field caps. Only a few w ore their camouflaged shrapnel heimets and here and there w as a man without any kind of headgear. Later In the day I saw another column of about 600 without overcoats, over-coats, this time having left their line in a greater hurry, and the officer with me I said: j "it looks like defeat when every day j sees such a number of prisoners coming back. Truly it looks like a breakup of j an army," Yet the enemy is fighting hard now for his Beaurevolr line, kuow-! kuow-! ing that if he loses it he has lost every-I every-I thing that can be called a lfne until lie goes much further back. Tt was not easy fighting for our men yesterday nor any easiar today. English and Scots of the Thirty-second division who retook Sequehart, which had been in our hands , twice, were violently counter-attacked. but succeeded in beating off these at-'. at-'. tacks. i It was the Second Australian division which broke the Beaurevoir line west and southwest of that village, working for-: for-: ward with the aid of tanks, which were ; handicapped by bad ground and water, to the outskirs of Montbrehain. 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