Central Powers

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 61, 9 October 1916, Page 6

Central Powers

THE GERMAN' REPORTS. ALLIES GIGANTIC THRUST. SUCCESS AGAINST ROUMANIANS. Press Association— Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. London, October 8. A German communique states: A fresh .Anglo-French attempt to break through between the Ancvc and the Somme was unsuccessful. There was continued increase in the strength of the enemy's artillery fire during the past few days. Prince von Buiow's army by stubborn resistance aml_ fighting repulsed the gigantic thrust, and the enemy only penetrated our lines at Le Sars and north-eastwards of Les Boeufs, between Morval and the St. PierreVaast Wood. Bpelocke downed his thirteenth aeroplane. The Roumanians, are yielding on the whole of the Transylvanian east front, We captured Brasso and forced our way in Alley. .We repulsed advances on the front and sides of "the Mona stir-Fiorina railway.?;