Over three hundred
guns, including many of heavy caliber, were captured. The ground had
been plowed up by shells and thousands of bodies of men and horses were
found lying where they fell. A feature of the attack was the swift
whippet tanks which advanced far ahead of the infantry lines.
[Illustration: Photograph]
Copyright Western Newspaper Union
British Official Photo
FORWARD WITH THE TANKS AGAINST BAPAUME
This picture gives an excellent idea of the method of combined tank
and infantry attack. Behind a low ridge among artillery positions they
are forming their line. A company falls in behind one of the waddling
monsters that will break a way for it through all obstacles, while on
both sides of the road other detachments await the arrival of the tank
they are to accompany.
[Illustration: Photograph: Line of marching soldiers stretching back to
the horizon. Several men resting in the foreground.]
Canadian Official Photograph.
From Underwood and Underwood, N. Y.
CANADIANS IN THE GREAT CAMBRAI DRIVE
One of the busy scenes just preceding the victorious attack by the
Canadians upon Cambrai. In the center can be seen captured Germans
carrying in one of their wounded comrades.
In the French official report occurred the following statement:
"The brilliant operation which we, in concert with British troops,
executed yesterday has been a surprise for the enemy.
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