Show AND BEGIN ALLIES TEAR THROUGH GERMAN LINES IN FRANCE APTER AFTER TERRIFIC GUN GUNFIRE FinE anglo french army cuts cut gash twin ty five miles wide in german front ip in drive which had been planned for months montha london tho the british have launched their long lone expected offensive on july 1 the and french forces began a furious attack against the german clerman forces along a front of 0 atwon ty alvo miles exten extending dini from beltow ft the dommu to Gomme north 0 of the inthe first thirty six hours flours of their furious lif rious drive the french and british V have captured more than ger p man amari prisoners cleared fifty square miles of french territory of the in and have carried eleven vil labes and a complicated series of on en i and re doubts that the germans have been more than twenty months constructing tho the long expected offensive ane hag push for which tho the hove have abeen preparing for mont months lis and which Us a part of a general closing in on oil germany cie on all fronts got under way at 7 30 saturday morning tho the troops kEn En glish gilill scotch irish and french surged from their trenches after a bombardment of an leour lour and a half which was tile tho climax ot of tile the steady pounding of the previous fourdais four days hundreds brundred of batteries poured tons toni of iron and explosives into tho the appos illig trenches wrecking them hom and burying III g tho the occupants tho attacking front of the british was approximately twenty miles expending from Gom lomme mccourt court tb a point 1 I orth north of the somme the french 1 kormod forward over about live miles on ion both sides of tho the somme domnic it ts 13 bupt north of the somme that tho the british and french fronts join tho the hiren il ench cli extending on to verdun rind and the swiss frontier r and iho british down to the sea r tho the french offensive offen alvo in france Frati with its ife preceding alv day bombardment la Is described by tho the military experts in that theater of op orations erat lons as the last word in scientific warfare ilera here aro are some ot the things the british and french did ns as a i fry ary 6 their drive through tho the ger i man front I 1 near tiam me 11 biad built mites miles of railroads to fir IA ellingto ellig c to moving m mu ut and troops and handling them th wounded put a metal on nil all the turn t pikes i i rebuilt or strengthened evory every t bridge and railroad concentrated fight fighting lua men ached aC ked by y aux auxiliary illary workmen and railroad builders ii t filled tho t lie vh whole region with hid ia den bifi guns of tho largest caliber many of them fifteen inch mortars inor tara and planned n and U I 1 pe guns with french artil lery experts i installed nil all over tile the region a new dew phone system with concrete poles augmented bya network of telegraph wires and stations and field hospitals burled ammunition everywhere together will 16 medicines dicen os and food sup piles so that ia po matter khero th X troops m moved 1 oved iv an emergency they would have shells and food Mt without hout tho the trouble anil and delay at ordinary amodei of transportation i arranged tho the big guns in such a way as to provide concentric flye from many guns on small areas of the tha german trenches in the preliminary five anve day bombard ment the french army fired shills bhella over a ninety mile front frant |