TWO-MINUTE BATTLE.

Bruce Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 66, 23 August 1917, Page 3

TWO-MINUTE BATTLE.

BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN The war's latest development is_ a two-minute battle. It took the British just that long to capture three-quarters of a mile of trenches on Infantry Hill, each of Monchy lo Preux, Thursday morning. The time for "going over the top" was set for 7.25, and at 7.27 rockets signalled the fact all along the line attacked that the objectives had been taken. The British stole out of their trenches in broad daylight without a single shot, of artillery preparation having been fired, rushed across No Man's Land, surprised the German garrison at breakfast, and took three officers and 175 others prisoner without the slightest effort. It was only after they had : accomplished all- this that the British barrage was placed behind the German positions in order to cut off any possible, relief or immediate counter-attack from that direction. There were only two British casualties. Two enemy machine-guns captured had not fired a single round during the .attack.