FRENCH FRONT

Nelson Evening Mail, 19 September 1916, Page 5

FRENCH FRONT

FURTHER PROGRESS SOUTH OF IHE SOMME. COUNTER-ATTACKS REPULSED. (Reuter's Telegrams.) PARIS, Sept. 18. A communique states that north of the Somme our artillery actively bombarded enemy works. South of ithe Somme we gained important successes. The villages of Vermandovillers ancß Berny, hitherto partly occupied -by us, were conquered iby a brilliant assault. Some of the houses are still resisting. All the ground -between Vermandovillers and Deniecourt, and 'between JJeniecourt and Berny. defended by several systems of strongly fortified trenches, fell into our hands after a desperate struggle. The fighting continues around Denie<tourt. "We captured a number of trenches between Berny and Barleaux. All enemy counter-attacks were shattered by our fire with heavy loss. Seven hundred unbounded! prisoners have heen counted. A GERMAN" COMMUNIQUE. I Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON. Sept, 17. A German communique says: "All attacks northward l of the Somme were sanguinarily repulsed. is still proceeding round- sirnll positions near Courcelette and Flers. Westward of Les Boeufs very definite attacks developed. South of the Somme there is ceaseless artillery fire,'' GERMAN COMMA<NiDER. IN A'LSACE (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON. Sept. 17. It is reported that Genera! C'jaed. the German Commander-in-Chief in Upper Alsace, is dead.