VILLAGES CAPTURED
BREACH OF FIVE MILES RIPPED OPEN GERMAN RETREAT IN • DOBRUDJA 'ONE DIVISION WIPED OJUT SPLENDID ADVANCE BY THE SERBIANS
By a.brilliant stroke, delivered before daylight, the British oh the Ancre have ripped open tlie German lino on a front of five miles, captured tho villages of Beaumont-Hamel and St. Pierre Divion, and also a- strong trench system north of Serre, and .taken, up to the present, over 3000 prisoners. There is a lull on- the French front. Severe fighting is proceeding in the wooded' Carpathians,-' where the ■ Gej-mans are making furious but futile attacks, at heavy cost, on the Russian, line. Tho Germau : Bulgar retreat in the Dobrudja continues, and on other sections of the Rumanian front the situation is satisfactory. ■' The Serbians have again' distinguished themselves in their attack oh the Bulgarians on tho Cerna, and have forced the' enemy to retreat a distance of two miles. On the-Italian front the Austrians are displaying intense activity iii the', Trentino, with what purpose Temains to bo seen. :
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2929, 15 November 1916, Page 5
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