GENERAL SITUATION SATISFACTORY.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 155, 4 July 1916, Page 5

GENERAL SITUATION SATISFACTORY.

BRITISH TROOPS PROGRESSING MUCH WAR MATERIAL CAPTURED. FINE WORK BY AVIATORS. (Reuter’s Telegrams.) Received 8-1-5 p.m., July 3. LONDON, July 3. Sir Douglas Haig reports: Heavy fighting took place on Tun day between the An ere and the Somme, especially about Fricourt and La Boiselle. The former was captured at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. It remains in our hands. Some progress was made eastward. The enemy is stubbornly resisting ir the neighbourhood of La Boiselle, it our troops are progressing satisfactorily. Much war material has been captured. The situation on either side of the -An ere valley is unchanged. The general situation may be regarded as favourable. Later reports of enemy losses show that our first estimates were too low.

Our aeroplanes were very active, co-operating in an attack north of the Scmme. They bombed numerous enj emy headquarters and railway centres. Two Fokkers were downed.

We conducted long distance reconnaissances in spite of attempts to frustrate them. Three of orir plane are missing.