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Show BRITISH TANKS DO THEIR PART German Troops Demoralized as the Big Machines Move Forward in Flanders. BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM, Aug. 21 (By the Associated Press). British tanks scored another triumph In tho capturo of impqrtant German positions in the neighborhood of Ypres-Poelcapelle road, north of St. Julien. It was a tank show almost from start to finish, and the infnntry in thiB case played tho part of supernumeraries super-numeraries In support of the leading actors, while large numbers of tho enemy troops added a final melodramatic melodra-matic touch by surrendering abjectly or fleeing in terror as the heavy leads lumbered onto the stage and "reached for their shooting Irons." As recorded in the official communication, communi-cation, tho British captured German defenses along a mile front to a depth of 500 yards. Among tho strongholds occupied wore the Famour triangle, Hibau and Cockroft farms, tho sites of exceedingly strong concrete and steel machine gun redoubts that menaced the Infantry advance. It was the dawn when tho tanks lined up and waited for the signal to "go over the top." The British artillery, artil-lery, observing no less of chivalry to the tanks than to tho Infantry in the past, poured a preliminary stream of shells Into the German lines, then dropped a barrage ahead of the iron monitors, which started forward, looking for all the world like great dragons that had rolled out from one of Hans Anderson's conceptions into the gray morning light that shrouded this battlefield in the "cockpit of Europe." Eu-rope." Fighting at Redoubts Behind them came the infantry, ready to do the cleaning up of tho ro- fT1nlnn nntttn'ir ifinr flm tfinlro linrl finished their parL But there was little for the infantry to do except assemble as-semble and care for the prisoners as the tanks progressed. There was hard fighting at several positions, such as tho three redoubts mentioned, but It was always brief. The tanks wheeled into position and turned a heavy Are on tho fortifications fortifica-tions and the Germans were killed or else they surrendered. The enemy casualties were heavy. Great numbers num-bers of Germans wore seen fleeing terrorstricken as the tanks appeared in tho distance and a considorablo number throw down their arms and surrendered without offering resistance. resist-ance. Tho tanks cloarod the whole territory terri-tory desired and then trundled back home. They suffered no damage and tho casualties for the operation totalled to-talled fifteen. This has been tho most striking incident of tho latest fighting along this front. There have been intense in-tense artillory bombardments and the air services of both sidos havo boon unusually active. Last night the air was full of British and German planes, which bombed their way Into each other's territory amidst picturesque but awesome flashes from breaking shrapnel and long white rays from searchlights. Tho French engineers havo encoun tercd considerable difficulties amid the marshes into which thoir troops have advanced on their left, but the work is proceeding with marvelous rapidity. Gunner Is Shot Up to date, the French havo captured cap-tured about twenty-flvo German guns since this offensive bogan on July 31 and the machine guns taken are innumerable. in-numerable. Some of tho captured redoubts re-doubts wero found to bo veritable nests of machine guns. One field gun which a German artilleryman was about to blow up, was taken near Les Lilas, the gunner bolng shot Just as ho was placing the explosive. The examination of German prlson- |