THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 September 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

j" (Australia-New Zealand Cable Service.) Ii s THE ALLIED ADVANCE L\ FRANCE. is 3 j Paris, fc'ept. 27. A communique .states.—The battle , wars renewed north of the Som-me and the Allies largely increased! their gain. "■ Tliev reached the objectives fixed fcor ft ' the second day's fighting in some hours. The French in the morning captured a part of Combles east and south of t'lie railway. Their patrols co-operated with tho British, who were cleaning up the north-west of Combles. Shortly .il'tonvards the whole village was cnptiircd. The booty was large, 1 a.s the Germans had ocou-mulated enormous munitions and supplies in subterranean pa-sages. A hundred abandoned German wounded were collected. Combles was full of German corpses. The Eiench. pushing forward in the afternoon, -seized! a small wood northward of Freicourt and the bulk of the strongly-org uiized ground between the wood and the western point of St. Vaast AA'oe-cl. eastward of the Bethune road. SIR DOUGLAS "HAIG'S REPORT. London. Sept. 27. Sir Douglas Haig reports:— We captured Thiepval and Highridge to the eastward, including Zollern redoubt-. Our sueecsses in the last two days have been of very considerable importance. As a result "of the. capture of Freicourt and Morval the Anglo-Fk'eneli I oceupie; l , Combles. I We heat off heavy counter-attacks in the neighbourhood of Morval and Les l';:euts with severe enemy losses. AA e stormed the fortified village of Guedcourt and drove the Germans back in disorder. Zollern redloubt was very strongly fortified by an elaborate system of I:ravfly-wired trenches and was defended in desi»eration. THE FRENCH REPORT. Paris, Sept. 27. An eighty-four hours' bombardiment i of unprecedented violence preceded the general attack on Monday. The deatelling roar of the guns suddenly ceas- ; ed at 12.30 p.m. from Martinpuieh to < the Somnie. There was a deadly si- , donee in which the French and British sprang from their trenches and ad- . vanced to the- assault. The ensuing battle was possibly the bloodiest ever , fought. The understanding between ; the artillery and the infantry was so j perfect that tho ''seventy-fives" were i sometimes hurling volleys only twentv- ( five yards in front of the assaulters. t I lie British scored/ the first success, ( the French having a terrible strugirle r with a Prussian brigade between Le i Priez and Rancouvt. The British ear- ; i.ed Hill 'I.jO east of 1' lei's in the most c brilliant manner ,and penetrated the f ruins of Les Booufs but there was three f hours hard .fighting before they penes trated the part of the village west oi* c the road between Freizeourt and Les 1 Boeufs. The entire villag was captur- i edi at six- o'clock. , RUMANIAN CAMPAIGN. j Rucliarest. Sept. 27. t A communique states:— f There is fierce fighting in the Jitil A alley, in Transylvania, where the IJumanian.s have - advanced. The enemy thrice attacked in mass- I es in the Dobrudja, but were repulsed, t A squadron of aeroplwnes bombed v Bucharest on Monday afternoon, a Bombs .struck tho hospital and the or- e phanage, killing sixty and; wounding many, mostly women and children. A Zeppelin bombed Bucharest on Moil- s day night, killing five children. z 0