OCR Text |
Show Allies Capture Over . 480 I Big Gras and Many Prisoners. HEAVY GERMAN LOSS A Eleven Divisions Utterly I Crushed in Ikee- f day Fight. I ! . LONDON, Aug. 10. (By the Asso- jl ciatcd Press) The guns, captured by I the Allies are now nearly 400 In num- I I ber. jj No further couut of prisoners had I come In at this hour but the total is J probably rapidly mounting because of J the disorganization of Germans. The 1 1 Allied casualties including all the kill - ed, wounded and missing are less than Jj 6,000 or not more than one-fourth of the number of prisoners counted. On jj the other hand the German casualties J have been tremendously heavy. I Eleven German divisions have not B only been deefated in the fighting" of ill the last three days, but so utterly jj crushed that the German higher com- ' mand has been unable to make any i counter-stroke anywhere. l The German communications have I been so -disorganized that thus far !J only two divisions of reserves have I been identified and these new troops jj have not been able to make any Im- I pression on the advancing Allies. No further news on the northern U flank from the Americans of the fight- 3 ing front has reached London since ; il noon when the accounts of their suc- 9 cess in the Morlancourt region were at hand. There is every indication, B'sj however, that they are pushing ahead i Bteadily, according to the Allied plan. 11 ! The latest news from the French was that they had captured the towns .; of Saulchoy and Davenscourt. (Saul-choy (Saul-choy is about five miles northeast of I Montdidier.) The advices from the French around ( Montdidier stated that they were meeting no severe resistance and that- tthe Germans undoubtedly were trying : hard to escape from the nasty saliont. |