ARTILLERY TORNADO ON THE SOMME
WITH GREAT AERIAL ACTIVITY ALL RECENT GAINS CONSOLIDATED Cltoiter'B Telesram.l (Eoc. October 12, 7.15 p.m.) c- t» * rr ■■',«. » London, October 12. bir Douglas Haig reports: "A heavy bombardment by the enemy was kept up all day. Attempted attacks by the enemy north of Courcelette were stopped. Wo shelled hostile infantry -which was assembling' in rear of the Qneniys front." (Rec. October 12, 10.5 p.ui.) „. • London, October 12. bir Douglas Haig reports: "Our aeroplanes yesterday bombed and destroyed two of the enemy's battery positions, and damaged many others. They penetrated well behind the enemy's front, and bombed railway stations, trains, an <3 billets effectively. Two of our machines engaged seven hostile aeroplanes, and downed or dispersed them alt. One 'of the enemy's machines was destroyed, and two others were severely damaged. Four of our machines are missing." "FRENCH OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. . . ' London, Octdb'er ,11. A French official communique states: "Wo have organised the positions we captured south of the Somme. Our prisoners now total 1377. The enemy violently attacked Syhoeholz, in the Vosges. Some parties reached our trenches, but were driven back with heavy losses. There have been numerous air fights." .. (Rec. October 12, 7.15 p.m.)' ~. __ . . . London, October 12. , A French official communique renorfcs a reciprocal bombardment along the Somme front. "Violent attacks! by at Bois de Chaulnes woro repulsed south of tho Somme." ■ '"" GERMAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. Aurtr&Han-TJew Zealand Cable Association, ' . London, Octoßer 1I ; . A German official communique states: "There have been numerous enemy attacks extending far northward of the Ancre. The enemy established himself on a narrow front in our' first line between Morval and Bouchavesnes. North-east of Thiepval the fighting continues for a small point d'appui. The French penetrated from Vernjandovillers, cutting off a salient, including Genermont and Bovent firms. South-east of Reims we penetrated the French third line." 7 THE FRENCH VICTORY AT VOVENT | BRILLIANT SCORE AFTER THREE WEEKS' LULL. (Rec. October 12,11,30 p.m.) London, October 12. The "Daily. Chronicle's" Paris correspondent writes:—"After three weeks of quiet, tho French, south of the Somme, won a brilliant victory at the battle of Bovont, in. which the Tenth French Army, under General Micheler, straightened tho German salient into a line four miles long, nearly approaching the Berny-Chaulnes High Road. The French batteries on Hill 109, noar Bovent, cover all the enemy's positions to the Somme. Chaulnes is in the Bame predicament as were Thiepval and Oombles sixteen days ago. General vou Kathen, commanding tbe.Silesian, Bavarian, and Wurtemberg troops, fought hard, counter-attacking five times with much vigour in the region of Ablaincourt and tho Chaulnes woods, which bristlo with machine-guns." SHOULD THERE BE ONE SUPREME COMMAND FOR ALL THE ALLIES? _,„_.. , _,„ • „ ;, Rome, October 11. The triornale D Italia" suggests that there should be one supreme command of tho Allied Armies, -with a united staff, having power to transfer troops from one front to another according to the strategic needs.- , RUSSIAN OPERATIONS IN THE CAUCASUS ~,_,-._.. . London, October n. A Russian official communique states: "In the coastal region of the Caucasus we dislodged the Turks from the mountain slopes of Soga Oinardiik and gained the right bank of. the Kars'hu River as far as its mouth." '
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2901, 13 October 1916, Page 5
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