BULGARS HUNTED OUT OF SIX VILLAGES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2897, 9 October 1916, Page 7

BULGARS HUNTED OUT OF SIX VILLAGES

Resuming active operations after a'period of bad weather, the .Western Allies have driven home another splendidly-successful attack in the region north, of tho Somme. The British havo captured the strongly-fortified'village; of Le Sars, covering'one of tho main approaches to Bapaume, and have closed in upon the enemy's fourth-line defences south-east of thai plaoe. Attacking simultaneously on a front of more than five, miles, extending south and east from the British,flank, the French swept forward twelve hundred yards, notably extending their foothold' astride, and eastward of, the Bapaume-Peronne road. A captured report by an enemy General emphasises the failure of the German war-machine under tho test now Imposed, and more to the same effect is contained in a Press Buroau communication whioh treats of the heavy losses sustained by the enemy in relation to those of the Allies. Very heavy fighting continues in the Koissian theatre. A semi-official statement conveys a warning against expecting rapid; developments in Volhynia and Galieia, where von Hindenburg. has' massed nearly all his reserves. Tho same'statement; remarks that thero is hope of a decisive success in tse Balkans at an early date. 1 ' ' . ) .1