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<p>a9755012.html</p><p>the men ready to start. The cars completely settled the whole of this transport with machine-guns. Then they came upon four junior German staff officers in a motor-car. These were either shot or captured. They found two German steam waggons in a road, and finished these and left them blocking the road.</p><p><strong>Incidents of the Chase.</strong></p><p>Two other cars hastened on and found a village full of German troops having lunch. The cars raced down the street shooting into the houses, killing numbers of the enemy. Everywhere the cars went they saw fugitives making back, but they nowhere met any formed body of German troops. Finally, some cars went down the main road towards Peronne. Here a solitary German field-gun was firing, and turned on them direct, and shot off one wheel. One other car was disabled on this road. The cars turned around and captured a number of Germans, who dragged the disabled car back to our lines. Our infantry came on some German transport, with horses already harnessed up. These were sent back with wounded prisoners.</p><p>We saw a German waggon with two horses not far from the German front line. Both the horses were dead. Behind the waggon was a German trench mortar, which they were evidently attempting to get away when the horses were killed.</p><p>Our losses throughout all this were ridiculously small. One battalion, which we found at the furthest point of the advance, had only three casualties. I do not know the exact figures for the rest, but they are little more than those of an ordinary day in many parts of the line. The Germans seldom fought their machine-guns with determination. Nearly all ran or surrendered at once. Our troops are now looking out over country where they can</p>