FRENCH CASUALTIES
HALF THOSE IN 1915. (Australian and NVZ Cable Association.) (Rec. Sept. 25, 12.50 p.Tfi.) Sept. 25. French casualties on the Sornme -were proippiitdomately one half those in 1915. The roiiruifceniess of the artillery preparation and) aerial observation enabled' the infantry to advance under a curtain of sheliLs .moving continuously two hundred yardls aheadi of t«heim. AIRTIILT/ERY ACTIVITY. (Rec. Sept. 25, 1.5 p.m>.) BAEIS, Sept. 24. A French communique says :—Our artillery is active/northward, of the Somme. We repulsed several German attacks south-east of Tfliia-umont. German aviators are unusually active, but we remain incontestibly .superior. 'ln 29 aar combats on the Somme front we brought down 10 1 German?..
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Nelson Evening Mail, 25 September 1916, Page 5
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