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Show BRITISH CRASH THRO GERMAN LINES WITH COMPLETE SUCCESS! -f BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM. Sept. 2C (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) (Delayed.) Once more the British fighting machine has crashed crash-ed its way through tho German trenches trench-es along the Ypres battle front with great success. Tho battle, begun in the dawn of misty morning, by noon had accomplished virtually what had been planned for it and this afternoon the men of Australia, England and Scotland were holding positions which represented a gain of from 1000 to 1300 yards over a large part of the sector involved. They had secured the whole of tho Tower Hamlets ridge which the Germans Ger-mans had fought bitterly and long to retain; they were clear of the famous Polygon wood wliose eastern slopes had been filled with concrete rodoubts and snipping shelters; they had battled bat-tled half way through Zonnebeke village vil-lage of Immortal memory, and north of tho Ypres Roulors railway they were holding many German strongholds strong-holds In the valley of the Hanebeko river. Hard fighting still continued especially south of Polygon wood at which place the Germans were'trying determinedly to regain the.ground lost and further counter-attacks were not unexpected. Sanguinary Battles Fought. Tho advance on the extreme right was not deep, but Avas in accord with the plan to drive tho Germans from Tower Hamlets ridge. The buttle for this position really began' yesterday when the British, in an endeavor to push back the German right flank received re-ceived a series of Uerce counter-attacks on both sides of tho Ypres-Menln highway. The fighting here yesterday-was yesterday-was continuous nnd sanguinary for the Germans kept throwing infantry in squadrons against the British posi tions. The defenses were forced to give way slightly, but with undaunted undaunt-ed courage hurled thcmselvs on the enemy with such fierceness that they were able to re-establish themselves before tho hour for the new advance arrived. A lot of British troop3 in this sector sec-tor began the new push this morning under tho fatigue of many hours battling bat-tling against a determined foe, but they did their work today and did It well. Tho fighting about Tower Hamlets Ham-lets was very severe and the Germans were able to get heavy machine gun fire on the British from positions to tho south. Advance Under Withering Fire. Along tho Menin road the English made the slight advance called for under un-der a withering machine gun nnd ai tillery fire. North of the Ypros-Men-in road, the line of advance swung out much further Into enemy territory in order to includo the Polygon wood and other Important positions. The Australians who negotiated most of the territory between the Ypres-Roulers railway and tho Ypres-3Ionin Ypres-3Ionin road, appear to havo comparatively compara-tively little trouble in getting through with the exception of a narrow stretch Just south of tho Polygon wood wL-aro the Germans held on tenaciously for a time. They had to fight their way Ihrough a ruoro or less intricate trench system to Polygon wood and encountered encoun-tered n' great number of block houses which turned a- vicious machine gun and rifle flro ngainat them. Among the troops opposing them wore Poles. The men made a good start in getting get-ting over tho top and swept through the eastern portion of Polygon wood. The Germans In redoubts on tho eastern east-ern slopes of tills wood surrendered and within a comparatively short time the Australians wore surging across the race course on the level below. ' Austrians Make Time. North- of Plygon wood the Australians Austral-ians covered tho ground assigned to them in two hours and twenty minutes, the average depth of th,eir advance be-1 ing 1200 yards. The entiro Austral-! ian operatlqn was accomplished with! exceedingly small casualties. It was a proud day for those English Eng-lish troops who forced their way into tho western end of Zonnebeke village. Not sinco tho bitter period of April, 1916, when the British were compelled to withdraw from this place had an allied soldier entered It. Tho wound of this defeat was healed largely today. to-day. In the sector north of Zonnebeke the offenslvo proceeded systematically until the final lino was crushed . I Heavy German Barrage Fire. Tho Germans were active throughout last night and put down a heavy barrage bar-rage flro before this morning's attack but It did little damage. Much machine ma-chine gun fire and sniping was encountered en-countered at many places but for tho most part tho Germans did not make a determined stand. The block Iiousob gave little trouble. Tho British artillery artil-lery preparation here had been exceedingly exceed-ingly good and the ground was strown with onemy dead. Sorlous but briof fighting occurred at a few of the fortified for-tified farms and near the railway the Germans delivered an immediato "coun-ter-atLick but this was broken quickly. quick-ly. Among the prisoners in this sector wore a number pf Prussians who are sturdy looking troops. Prisoners wcro coming in all along tho line' of the offenslvo of-fenslvo but it was impossible to estimate esti-mate the total further than that sover-al sover-al hundred had been accounted for at nn early hour. |