Abstract :
24 September 1918, and Britain announces that in August, during the first phase of the Allied push that was to become known as the \´Hundred Days Offensive\´, its troops in France captured 57,321 German prisoners including 1,283 officers. At the same time they took possession of 657 German guns, including over 150 heavy guns, along with 5,750 machine guns and more than 1,000 trench mortars. Among the "immense quantities of war material of every description" also seized were three trains, nine locomotives, and dumps containing hundreds of thousands of rounds of gun, trench mortar and small arms ammunition.
