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Show GUR1M0F FIRE Germans Have Brought Up More Men and Guns for Somme Fight. With the British Army In France, July 24, 2 p. m., via London, 11:35 p. m. "How about the Australians?" everybody .was asking today at the front. "Were they sticking to it?" What the official bulletins call a curtain of fire, hid the ruins and Pozieres, Po-zieres, where the Australians had yesterday yes-terday established themselves on one side of the main street, with the Germans Ger-mans on the other. Unremittingly, the German guns kept a curtain there, with burst after burst of shrapnel raining bullets and high explosives, their black bursts churning the earth. On the other side of the massed, re. mains of that village, which is proc ious high ground, the British guns placed the same kind of a notice that no one might pass tho barrier of dead and oin in the struggle of the com. batants surrounded by an infernal ring. But back from the scene came more prisoners and two guns taken and news that the Australians, not content con-tent 'with holding ono side of the street, now had both, and, digging? bombing, ducking and ruBh amidst piles of fallen bricks and debris, were pressing onto the mastery of the -whole village. a 1 , This and some sections of a trench beyond the Bazentyn-Le Petit were the gain for this sultry dryy, with the thick dust of the traffic in the rear and the smoke of shells hanging low over the field of battle. Never since the battle of the Somme began has the correspondent of the Associated Press soon moro shelling by both sides. Pounding, with no recess, is progressing pro-gressing on every part of the line, but is particularly heavy on the right of the line as well as on the left at Pozieres. The Germans aro pouring In an unceasing volume on the Trones wood, where the BritlBh Infantry face the village of Guillemont, and answering answer-ing thunders are deluging Guillemont, What Pozieres is to tho left, Guille. mont and Ginchy beyond, are to the right. Apparently, the Germans have brought still more guns and troops from Verdun for the issue at stake here. |