TO-DAYS NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3566, 28 September 1916, Page 5

TO-DAYS NEWS.

THE WESTERN

THEATRE.

THE RECENT SUCCESSES.

DDE TO EXCELLENCE OF

ARTILLERY

THREAT TO MONT ST. QUENTIN

. (Received .September 28, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, September 27. Correspondents at British Headquarters express the opinion that the very email cost: and the great_ success

oi: the receivt operations were due to the excellence of. the artillery aud the real collapse of the defence. The fighting of the German infantry on Tuesday was markedly weaker than on Monday, and tHe enemy's artillery fire was. spasmodic. The Anglo-French attack failed nowhere, and soveral important points were taken without opposition. • .'.. The whining tone of the German communique emphasises the impression of failure. , In- addition to the capture, of Thiop-

I v? j g^ Combles, the French in the h^ running northbUUU" ', ' ... . „m^^+nin, .east of the Somme, along the Tortille Valley„ and coming into direct touch \xrith the defence works of Mont St. Mont S t. Qucntin is . . . -7 . +w recemng similar..treatment to that ; which, was so successful at Combles, bt-eak across the Bapaumep^ R has been considerably awuu«j enlarged. There has been cavalry action key OlU j Gueudecourt.