Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-10-21 | Page 2 | 3000 Huns Are Seized by British

100 IIS ARE SEIZED B! BRJIiSH Haig's Men Go Forward to Victory in Spite of Rain and Mud. . By Unlt.d Press. LONDON, Oct. XI. More than 1000. prisoners ware takes by tha Brltlah north of Le Cateau yesterday. Field Marshal Halg reported today. In their drive against Valenciennes from the southwest. English. Scottish and We'sh troops fighting la a rainstorm rain-storm shattered desperate realatance by the Oermans In villages along the railway Una. Tanks want forward with the Infantry and eroeeed the flooded Selle river.' Working under heavy fire the British threw brtdgee acroaa the flooded Belle and the artillery ar-tillery croaaed the river cloee behind the Infantry. NIGHT ATTACK. WINS. Tho statement said: "The number of prlaoners In tha operation op-eration veaterday north of Le Cateau now exceeda auvO. The enemy'a positions po-sitions on the Belle river were of great natural atrength and were held with reaolution. Our attack waa launched by English, Scottish and Welsh troops i at I a. m, under the moat unfavorable unfavor-able weather conditions, a continuous rain rendering the advance moat dlf- i flcult Fighting waa heavy all day 1 long, the enemy offering atrong realatance re-alatance la tha village, along the railway rail-way Una. In overcoming thla raalat-anoe raalat-anoe great aaslstance waa rendered at certain polnta by tha tanas, wnicn, despite de-spite the flooded condition of the river, succeeded In passing to Ita eaat bank at an early hour. As soon aa tha line ef the river had been aecured, a number ef bridges were rapidly constructed con-structed under heavy fire from hoatlle artillery and machine iuua These bridges enabled eur guna to push close behind the' advancing Infantry and they afforded effective assistance at ahort range. COUNTER ATTACK FAILS, I "During the evening at certain polnta j where parties of the enemy still were reatatlng, local operations cleared them j out. A counter attack directed at Knmeries wss beaten oft with heavy loaaea. "North of Denaln our advanced ele-menta ele-menta continue to pres. forward, maintaining main-taining contact with tha enemy. We are approaching tha village of Bt. Amand and the line ef the Scheldt, j north of Twimtl" t