ANOTHER VILLAGE STORMED BY THE BRITISH

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2930, 16 November 1916, Page 5

ANOTHER VILLAGE STORMED BY THE BRITISH

5000 PRISONERS COUNTED BATTLES IN THE BALKANS BULGARS SEVERELY HANDLED DREADFUL ATROCITY BY 1 AUSTRIAN AIRMEN ' Following up their brilliant success at Beaumont-Hamel and St. Pierre Divion, the British on the Ancre havo captured the village of Beaucourt-Sur-Ancre. Tho tally of prisoners since tho attack was ■launched in this sector has now reached 5000; they are still coming in, and the German official communique on tlie battle makes the almost unprecedented admission that "our losses were important.', 1 Explanatory dispatches show that the attack was delivered with the object of straightening out an awkward angle of tho lino, thus clear- ~ ing the way for tho grand attack on Bapaume. frothing of importance has occurred along tho remainder of tho Western front. Tho German Crown Prince has been given the command in Alsace—Verdun knows him no more. Incessant battles are being fought on tho Rumanian front, and under heavy pressure on their left wing the forces of our Ally have had to give ground slightly. Th© oil depots at Constanza have been fired by the guns of tho Russian warships, and the city is now in flames. The* Italian communiquo roports ac- . tivity in the Trentino, to what purpose is not yet clear. In tho Balkans the Serbians have been engaged in a series of sanguinary oomb&tswith the Bulgars, whose desperato resistance suggests a critical situation for them.