BRITISH PROGRESS BEYOND DELVILLE WOOD

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2863, 30 August 1916, Page 5

BRITISH PROGRESS BEYOND DELVILLE WOOD

FRENCH STAND FAST AT FLEURY ■ ' x ; ■':■ Australian-New Zealand Cable Association.' Lordbn, August 28. Sir Douglas Haig roprts somo progress cast of Dolvillo Wood, and great artillery activity at.Dolvillo' Wood and north of Pozjeres. (R«c. August 29,.8.45 p.m.) London, August 28. Sir Douglas HaigTOports a mutual heavy bombardment. A licavy ©torn overtook eight British aeroplanes. Five have not yet retuned. FRENCH OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. London, August 28. . A French official communiquo states: "Our Grenadiers easily repulsed - many German attempts against our positions before Floury." GERMAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. London, August 28. A Gorman official communiquo ropforts attacks by the British at Thiepval, Mouquet Farm, tho Dolvillo Wood, and Givenchy. '"The French made storm- ' ing attacks at Maurepas and Cilery, but thoy all failed." GERMAN FEAR OF THE BRITISH GUNS. (Rec. August 39,8.45 p.m.) - m , • , „,.,,„'■■ London, August 2? -■* The "Hamburger Aachnchten's" account of the British offensive insists on tho terrible results of sulphurous gas shells which America has mpplied in enormous quantities. "The British artillery doesn't know the meaning pf economy in ammunition." . \ GERMAN REPUTATIONS , BURIED ON THE SOMME. :'. (Rec. Außust 29, ll'AO p.m.) . footterdam, August 29. ' The German "Army Gazette" announces that Generals von Lugeky and ron Bern have been pensioned. Both were recently at the Somme. Fifteen generals have been pensioned sinco the Somme offensive commenced. ■—— / ' .■.■.-. >■" an American estimate.of franco-British- casual- - ■ TIES. .. ■.-...'■ New.York, August 2S, Mr. J. M. Beck, ex-Assistant American Attorney-General, who has returned from England", says that in one Veek of the Somme offensive the British and French casualties totalled 40,000. • " . . ■:»'.'■". GULLING TEE GERMAN PUBLIC (Rec. August 29, 9.50 p.m.) . ;". London, August 29. . The military authorities point out some remarkable German concoctions for local and neutral consumption regarding the operations on the Western front. For instance: Tho Australian and English advance at Pozieres on August 4, and a further advance on Aliffust if-the German report did not ' mention the former advance, and regarding the second advance reported that Imaginary British attacks had been repulsed. Weeks later the Germane refei casually to loßt places in tho possession of the Allies, pretending that thej had never been held or lost by Germany, v • -