Show British Tell of Somme Attack I Scenes of Glory Mark Charge I Victorious Regiments Find Choice Luxuries Luxuries Luxuries Lux Lux- uries in irr German inGerman Trenches Accounts Accounts Accounts Ac Ac- counts Are Thrilling PRESS CAMP BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE July 5 Battalions which have been fighting since the battle began now have been relieved from the front line and are In billets in quiet villages or towns free from the sound of shell blasts or cracking bul bul- lets Answering questions as to what they wanted most when relieved they invariably answered in three words Sleep wash shave I Every battalion Is proud of keeping keeping keep keep- ing its formation until the first line of the German trenches was reached and of the fact that the new army made good One battalion with whose officers the correspondents talked met machine gun fire and lost half of its officers and men before reaching the first line trench but fought its way on another thousand yards to an objective set for It where it in in- trenched and maintained its position One of the officers of this battalion served out biscuit and half a bottle o of soda water to each man from supplies supplies sup sup- plies found in the German dugouts The British who had to subsist on their travel rations for the first few days in some instances were saved from shortage by the German rations which escaped destruction by shell fire These included canned German GermanI beef beet which was found foun to be good I Soldiers Eat Families Starve Talks with prisoners generally revealed revealed re reo re- re I that the German soldiers have food while letters from their homes in every part of Germany indicate privations privations of the civilian population Asked what he thought of the great naval battle one said aid he never heard of it Another said that fresh eggs had been a great luxury In InI Inthe inthe the German army and that a basket of them had just arrived and the Germans tier Ger I mans in his trench were feasting their hungry eyes upon it when a British howitzer made a direct hit One I British officer found his favorite I brand of cigars in a German officers officer's dugout I Many of the prisoners asked the same question as do tao British soldiers soldiers sol sol sol- I diers Has the British army enough shells to keep up such bombardments as that of last week The story of the Ulster divisions In Inthe inthe inthe the first days day's battle of the Anglo Anglo- French offensive is now ac accessible It had one ono of the most terrible parts of the difficult attack in the northera northern north north- 1 ern era section of the offensive Its trenches were disadvantageously located located lo- lo on ground facing a ridge where the German batteries had an enfiladIng enfilading I ing fire The Last Cartridge Through curtains of shrapnel fire in the face of machine guns and under enfilading fire from machines in a village the division captured the first German line shouting No surrender and Remember the Boyne and started for the second line Still under cross and every kind of shell fire the troops of the Ulster division continued continued con con- on until they gained a strong redoubt on tile the summit of the tho ridge There those who ha has ha survived dug in Against German counter attacks and machine gun an and rifle fire from two sides they tiley held on until they had no nomore nomore nomore more bombs or cartridges Hopelessly shut off from further supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies by German curtains of shell fire I they had to fall back bringing prisoners to the German first line of trenches passing through sections of or ori i fire to do so Here they established I and stu until help came An English battalion from Yorkshire Yorkshire York York- I shire and Lancashire caught In the same fashion so far as known fought almost to the last man in holding the Germans north of the while battalions farther south made uniform I progress I All reports of prisoners agree that the Germans the real center I attack would be north of Regular Regular Reg Reg- r ular army officers say that nothing in the annals of the guards or of any other regular regiments in the battle of Ypres or in the history of or orthe the British surpasses the gallantry of these Kitchener battalions which kept pressing on oa toward the objective set for them when half halt their numbers were down clown |