ENGLAND HAPPY.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1917, Page 8

ENGLAND HAPPY.

DELIGHTED WITH BYNG GERMAN'S TERRIBLE NIGHTMARE.

London, Nov. Hi. The wonuertul success of Sir Julian Bvng and his boys delighted the people of England. Thc' hearticst demonstrations were made in music hulls and .theatres, where the audiences sang "Rule Britannia." The surprise was the greater as the .advance came after Mr. Lloyd George's declaration regarding the impenetrable barrier in the West. If Cartfhrai is still unt-aken, six railways converging on the city arc now under the British field guns. It is curious to recall that the military critics in Berlin have recently been scoffing at the tanks, declaring that (hev are out of date British military <erities recall that General Otto von Below was recently commanding the Sixth German Army between the Scarpa and Cambrai, where he linked up with General von Tarvitz's Second Army. Seeing that his front was quiescent, General von Below may have taken some picked battalions to Italy, where he is now fighting. If so. Sir Douglas Haig and Sir Julian Bvng saw a chance to pounce. Haig's latest invention is a complete answer to Hitidcnburg's "Elastic defence in future,'' The German semievacuated zone must be strongly manned. Another advantage of the new tactics is that the ground does not 'become a crater zone. Thus the tanks assault, n.nd battalions of cavalry are able to advance. Correspondents narrate that the cavalry was able to cross, the bridges at Masnieres and Marcoing at midday on Tuesday, as the enemy had no time to destroy them. They swept round the German machine-gun emplacements, and took many prisoners. Several hundred tanks were engaged, moving forward in small groups. Thev rolled down the German wire, crossed, the deep gulf of the Ilindenburg main line, pitching down their noses as they drew their long bodies over the parapets, and rearing up again with the long forward reach of body, and thus heaved themselves into Paradise beyond. The Jlerman troops suddenly saw the grey monsters crossing "their "impregnable lines," firing fiercely from their flanks, and sweeping the trenches with machineguns. It. seemed fl. horrible nightmare. •The Germans ran in terror, t.rving : to avoid the bursts of fire, amazed by the motility of the tanks and their dreadful flower. Even the German ofiletfrs admit 'it was a brilliant attack.