FRENCH OPERATIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, 20 September 1916, Page 5

FRENCH OPERATIONS

WHOLE OF DBNIECOUIvT CARRIED. FURTHER PROGRESS AT OOIMfBLES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) PARIS, Sept. 19. A communique states that we captured a cluster of trenches 200 yards south of Combles. We carried the whole of Denieoour.t after a fierce battle, taking prisoner the remaining defenders, and- progressed a kilometre southwardls: Sunday's and Monday's prisoners at Deniecourt number 25 officers and 1 1600 men. Simultaneous operations with those southward of Deniecourt enabled us to seize a trench westward of Horgny, expel the enemy- from three woods south-west-ward of Deniecourt, and occupy several trenches to the south-westward. We seized a trench on the southern slopes of the Mort Homme. A GERMIAN COMMUNIQUE. /Australian and N.Z. Cible Association.) (LOISTD'ON, Sept. 18. A German communique says: "Last night on the Somme there were battles on a 45-kilometre front from Thiepval to Vermandovillers. There was batter fighting north of the •Somme, the actions being favourable to us. South of the Somme ire abandoned positions between Barleux and Vermandovillers and the villages of Beiny and Deniecourt." THE BELGIAN COAST. GERMAN AIR RACLD ON ALLIED IS'HIEPS. A FALSE REPORT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) AMSTERDAM, Sept. 19. A Berlin official -message says: ' 'Our hydroplanes last night successfully 'bombed hostile warships off the Flemish coast. They hit the aircraft's mother ship, and' forced a hostile airman down in Holland." The British Admiralty denies that any ; ship was hit or damaged.