GERMAN ATTACKS BROKEN.
TREMENDOUS LOSSES
INFLICTED
; ( PARIS/September 22. The Germans yesterday sustained on the Somine the bloodie.st defeats since the beginning, of the, offensive. French airmen observed ti great massing of men and artillery, and whilo tho weather held them up, the Allies prepared, with 1 the result that the Germans suffered the heaviest casualties since the terrible' losses inflicted at Douaimont and Vaux.
North of the Soirmie tho fiffhting^ lasted from 7' o'clock in the morning J till 7 o'clock in tho owning. Six divisions in compact bodies assaulted the French, but wore heavily punished by machine-gun and artillery fire before they came in sight of our trenches. Tho battle was most fierce in tho centre ai Bouch'awsues, the Albe Wood, and Combles. Two Prussian battalions wevo nut out of action before le Prhz Farm, and six others further south.
An artillery officer, speaking of tho hellish inferno, said' that tho rpad from Combles to Rancourt was " a charnelhouse. Corpses were piled high o» each side, sacrificed without result.*'
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3562, 23 September 1916, Page 3
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170GERMAN ATTACKS BROKEN. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3562, 23 September 1916, Page 3
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