| Show AND FRENCH BEGIN IVE J ALLIES TEAR THROUGH THE GERMAN LINES IN FRANCE AFTER terrt IC GUNFIRE anglo french army cute cuts gh gash tvan mile miles wide in german front in drive which had been planned for months london the british have launched kun ched their long expected offensive offen alve on july 1 the british and french forces began a furious attack against the german forces along a front of awen miles extending from below the somme to Gommo Gomme court north of the anaro in the first thirty six hours of their furious drive the franch and british have captured more than german prisoners prie onore cleared fifty square miles of french territory of the in and have carried eleven vil lages and a complicated series aeries of en trench menta ments and redoubts that the bernans Oer nane have been more than awen ty motha mo tha constructing the long expected offensive the big for which the british have been prep preparing arlig for months and which Is a part of a gencil closing in on germany on all fronts got under way at 7 30 saturday morning the troops english scotch irish and drench surged from their trenches tren chea after a bombardment of an hour and a half which was the tile climax of the steady pounding of the previous four days hundreds of batteries poured tons of iron and explosives into the or ing trenches wrecking them end nd bu burying the occupants attacking front of the british wae was approximately twenty milea miles ex tending from Gomme Comme court to a point north of the somme the french stormed forward over about five mile miles on both sides of the somme it Is just north ot the somme that the tile british and french fronts join the french extending on to verdun and the swiss frontier and the british stretching retching et don dov n tj the de sea the french offensive in france with its preceding five day bombardment is described by trie military experts in that theater of op erat orations lons as the I 1 last word in scientific warfare hero here are some of the things the and french did an a pre pr ellmin limin ary to their drive through the ge german front near somme built miles of railroads rall roada to fa militate cili tate moving munitions and troops and handling the wounded put a metal surface on all the turn tarn pikes rebuilt or strengthened every bridge and railroad concentrated fighting men backed by auxiliary workmen workman bridge and railroad builders filled the whole region with hid den guna guns of the largest caliber many of them fifteen inch mortars and manned these guns with french artil lery experts installed all over the region a new phone system with concrete poles augmented by a net network Nork of telegraph wires and stations sta tlona ant field hospitals burled buried ammunition everywhere to brather with and food supplies so that no matter where the troops moved in an emergency they would have shells and food without the trouble and delay of ordnary ord luary lary modes mod es of transportation arranged the in such a way as to provide concentric fire from many guns on small areas u of the german trenches |
