In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 65, 13 October 1916, Page 5

In the West

THE BATTLE OF BOVENT.

BRILLIANT FRENCH VICTORY.

Press Association—Copyright, Austra-

lian and S'.Z. Cable Association London, October 12

The Daily Chronicle’s Par's correspondent states that after three week’s quiet the French south of the Somme won a brilliant victory in the battle of Bovent, wherein the 10th French Army, under General Me-

cheler, straightened the German salient into a line four miles long, nearly approaching the Bernv-Chaulnes high road.

The French batteries on Hill 109, near Bovent, cover all the enemy positions to the Somme and Chaulnes, and the enemy is in the same predicament as he was at Thiepval and Combles. Sixteen days ago General von Katlien, commanding Silesian, Bavarian and Wurtcmberg troops, fought hard, counter-attacking five times with much vigor in the region of Ablainconrt and Chaulnes Woods, which bristle with machine-guns. ALLIED AERIAL WORK., Press Association—Copyright, i Reuter’s Service. London, October 12. General Sir Douglas Haig reports: Our aeroplanes yesterday bombed and destroyed two enemy battery positions and damaged many others. They penetrated well behind the enemy front and bombed railway stations and trains and billots effectively. Two of our machines engaged seven hostile aeroplanes, and downed and dispersed all but one of the enemy 1 machines. They afterwards destroyed two others and severely damagd four. Our machines are missing.