In the midst of the conflict, the prisoners whom the correspondent saw were of the Twenty-ninth Regiment and of the sturdiest German soldier type, much superior to those of the Eleventh Division which became disorganized and surrendered freely in front of Poincaré recently. They looked well fed, and they showed few effects of the usual stiff trench struggles. Some of them laughed over how they had been trapped, and they were generally very happy, as they had heard what had happened to those who had tried to resist in such a hopeless situation.
Elsewhere, the story is of many trenches gained, some lost and a relentless action throughout the night, the Infantry laboring in the moist earth, fighting for possession of water-logged shell craters, while the artillery kept to their work, the hot gun barrels sizzling from the rain. Once, when the British were caught in machine-gun fire, they had to yield a position taken and found a counterattack developing. Twenty seconds after their 8. O. S. signal to the artillery commander, the guns were on that counterattack with curtains of fire that sent it to cover.
On the center, the British have pushed closer to Martinsburg and have taken (Continued on Second Page.)
Two Light Cruisers Sunk in North Sea by German Submarines British Admiralty Admits Loss of Ships While Searching for Enemy's High Seas Fleet.  LUXDO, August 21. — The Herman high seas Moot has again appeared in the North Sea, and in a clash between British submarines and British scout ships, two British light cruisers have been sent to the bottom. Reports are that one of the submarines was destroyed, and that another was rammed and possibly sunk. 