Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-09-20 | Page 11 | Waves of Huns Mowed Down

WAVES OF INS MOWED DOWN Counter Attacks at Mouvres and Trescault Meet a Bloody Repulse. DEAD COVER GROUND British Have Fighting Superiority Superi-ority Over Germans in No-Man's-Land. BRITISH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Thursday, Sopt. 19. (Router's.) Via Montroal. The ground over which the Germans counter-attacked the British at Moeuvres and Trescault is covered with dead and tho enomy casualties are estimated to havo been 40 por cent of the troops engaged. The Germans Ger-mans attacked in dense waves but the assaulting ranks were mowed down by tho British defenders. Particularly strong were the German efforts against the British positions east of High and Ilavrlncourt woods. Here the enemy reached the British position at several places but very few Germans were able to got out alive. Prisoners taken by tho British say that the allied attack was expected north of GouzeaucourL When the British Brit-ish struck on a fifteen mile line south of that town, the Germans dhanged their plans and assumed the offensive north of Gouzeaucourt with disastrous results. In an order to his troops concerning 1 raiding activity. General von Buelow, commanding the 17th army, says: "This shows that at the present time the British have a fighting superiority over our troops in No Man's Land."