THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 September 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

(Ausitalia-Now ZiMiuud Cable Suffice.) inn wiisir front. London, .Kept, IS). Sir Douglas Haig reports: Wc captured n strongly fortified work called the Quadrilateral between Jluulcaux Wood and Gincliy. We advanced our lines to a depth or 1000 yards on a one-mide front. We took 500 prisoners in twenty-four hours. To-day's advance in important. Numerous prisoners were taken as the result of highly successful operation at the Quac'rilutein!. Counterattacks northward of Fler.s were repulsed with lows, and we progressed. •Hostile troops, massing for counterattack at l/es Uoeufs and Morval were caught by our artillery fire and disported. Five heavy howitzers, two field guns, three heavy and; three Tght trench mortars were c.iphired in addition to those reported since Friday. Several enemy aeroplanes wore brought down and lour of ours are missing. Paris, Sent. 1!). A communique states: - ' We captured n fluster of trenches | 200 yards south of Combles and carried the whole of Deniecourt after a (icree battle, taking prisoner the remaining defenders. AA'e progressed a kilometre to to the south. Sunday's and Monday's prisoners taken at .Deniecourt amount to 25 officers and IGOO men. We seized; a trench on the southern slopes of Mort Homme. .Simultaneous operations with those southward of Deniecourt enabled lis to se'ze a trench westward of Horgny 'and to expel the enemy from three woods' south-westward of Deniecourt. Wo occupied several trenches to-the southwestward. IX MACEDONIA. London. Sept. If). A French oflicial .Salonika message states The Serbian curtain of machine-gun lire nt Vctrenik .subjected, the counterattacking Bulgarians to heavy losses. The .Serbians are pursuing the advance further west. .Despite the difficulties of t!ie ground they dashingly captured the powerfully organized (in lgarian lii'at line on the Kajmaekalan crest. A counter-attack was repulsed. The battle of lJosna on the Fiorina .front was fierce throughout the whole of Sunday night. Large Bulgarian forces, after desperate and futile resistance vainly multiplied counter-at-tacks iand cavalry charges. The French carried Fiorina at ten in the 1 morning. THE FIGHT KOI? HALITZ. Petrograd, Sept. 1!). The great battle of the River Narayuvnka, northwards of Halitz, has been raging for three days. The Russians attacked on Saturday morning, fighting handt-to-hand. Repeated German counter-attacks upheld the struggle for the village of tSnistelnik'.v, eastwards of the river. It changed hands six times. Armoured cam were most prominent. The whole first line of trenches was oeoupied on Saturday, and on Sunday morning the Russian infantry a'e-at-tacked simultaneously nine sections of the front. Three lines of trenches fell. The lighting is still of the severest. • THIS GERMAN REPORT. London, B'ept. 18. A German communique says: — The mighty iSoinnie battles on a forty-five kilometre front from Thiepviil to Vormandovillers led to bitter lighting. North of the Somme the actions were favourable to us. South of the Somme we abandoned positions between Barleaux and Deniecourt. There is heavy fighting on the Zlotalipa. A German counter-attack astride tho Narojovka regained a great portion of the territory lost on .Saturday. We took prisoner 3500. London, .Sept, 18. A German communique states: — .The Russo-Riimnnians, after a threedays' retreat, have taken up positions on the line Rasova-Copadinu-Tuzhi, where they had been reinforced.