THE PRESSURE IN THE WEST

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2871, 8 September 1916, Page 5

THE PRESSURE IN THE WEST

- ,i FURTHER ADVANCE OF THE ALLIES SEVERE FIGHTING ON THE FRENCH FRONT (By Telegraph—Pisss Association—Copyright). Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. London, September 6. Sir Douglas Haig reports:—"We have captured the whole of Leuze Wood. We made a successful gas attack on Gommecourt. Fighting continues between Leuze Wood and Combles, also round Ginchy. Artillery on both sides has been active northwards of Pozieres and Mouquet Farm. We effectively shelled hutments at Polygon Wood, eastward of Ypres." HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. The High Commissioner reports: London, September 7, 10 a.m. A British official message says : "Sevcro fighting continues about Ginchy. A large party of the enemy, emerging from Courceletto, and numerous working parties, were caught by our - artillery fire and dispersed. The enemy's artillery is active against portions of our front in the neighbourhood of Thiepval. North of Arras, between La Bassee Canal and Richebourg-la-Voue, we successfully bombarded the enemy's line." ON THE FRENCH FRONT" The High Commissioner reports:-™ London, September 6, 2.55 p.m. The French official report states: "Thero was no reaction at night on the front north of the Somme. South df the Sommo tho Germans attacked tho new French positions south of Deniecourt, and also near Bemy-en-Santerre, but all the attacks were broken by our curtain of fire. A German attack at Fleury failed, under our machine-gun fire." London, September 6, 12.55 p.m. A French official message says : "North of the Somme there is violent artillery activity. South of tho Sommo this afternoon the French successfully resumed the offensive, capturing trenches south-east of Berny-en-Santerro and a greater-part of the village. Between Vermandovillers and Chilly the struggle is bitter. We conquered; northward of Vermandovillers, new •trenches between Chaulnes and Chilly, and pressed our first'line to the borders of Chaulnes. Numerous prisoners were taken." ■../ ' GERMAN OFFICiI.AL COMMUNIQUE. Australian-New Zealand Ceble Association. London, September 6. A German official communique states: "There is no diminution in the intensity of the battle on both sides of tho Somme. Twenty-eight British and French divisions are engaged. The enemy has gained ground in some small places. Clery remains his. We maintained our first position against a fresh French attack at Barleux, and to the south of Chilly, up to last night. South of tho Somme we have taken 1468 prisoners." * ANOTHER GERMAN GENERAL DISMISSED. (Rcc. September 7, 6.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, September 6. The.. Kaiser has dismissed General von Deimling, who commanded the right .wing of the Crown Prince's army at Verdun. ! "A CRUSHING DEFEAT" OF THE GERMANS "'•'AN UNPALATABLE OPINION FOR GERMAN-AMERICANS. i ' New York, September 6. Tho .'iN'ew York Times' " Paris correspondent, who has visited the Sommo front, sayS: "In a two days' battle, tho French inflicted a crushing defeat on the flower of the German forces. They stormed what the Germans claimed to be impregnable fortifications, with a minimum of loss to their own side, and caused fifty thousand German casualties." The correspondent asserts that tho Germans arc trying to fight the war on the lines originally laid down, but the French adapted their tactics to the changed conditions, with tho result that since the beginning of July tho French have advanced along a fifteenmile front to a depth of from five to ten miles, holding and strengthening the captured ground. Thoy are not trying to break through the German line, but ' are exerting a steady and inexorable pressure, before which the whole sector eventually will be forccd to give way." GERMAN TESTIMONY TO OUR TERRIFIC 'GUN-FIRE (Reutcr's TeloKram.l (Rec. September 8, 1.25 a.m.) Amsterdam, September 7. Correspondents omphasiso tho terrific character of tho Anglo-French bombardment. Tho Berliner Tagcblatt" says that it is "tho maddest gunfire tho world has ever experienced. Never, auywhore, have guns been brought together in such masses as on tho front at Mauropas. Clearly tho i enemy has attempted to cover every incirof tho Gorman lines with shells. Thoy are fighting with nothing else but brutal money, with which he has bought his shells." A Gorman Army chicf ou tho Sommo said: "Wo may loso projecting points, but they will ncvor i''reak through."-

GERMAN CHANCELLOR MEETS THE PARTY LEADERS OPTIMISTIC ASSURANCES FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION. (Ecutcr's Telegram.) London, September 6. A telegram from Berlin states that the Imperial Chancellor (Herr Bethniann Hollweg) assured a, conferoneo of party leaders that the military situation was good and the war loan prospects of tho .brightest. Obviously the assurances were necessitated by tlio widespread uneasiness in Germany. FEEBLE RESPONSE FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC. Australian-New Zealand Gable Association. Amsterdam, September 6. Tlie chief 'subscribers to the Gorman war loan arc the savings banks and munition firms. The total sulTscriptions for the first two days wore far below that for the previous loans. Tho general public is subscribing very little.