PROGRESS CONTINUES.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 July 1916, Page 5

PROGRESS CONTINUES.

TRENCH ELEMENTS CARRIED. AEROPLANES BROUGHT DOWN. : Received July 17, f1.40 p.m. Paris, July 10. A communique <iays: There is great activity by French and Russian patrols on the Champagne front. After -j. lively bombardment of Chattancourt we carried some trench elements east of Hill 304, and followed up our progress west of Floury. We brought down two aeroplanes at the Somuie. RUSSIANS PARTICIPATE. A FRENCH JOURNAL ON GERMANY. THRASHED BY BRITAIN. , Received July 17, 0.35 p.m. Paris, July 10. Our (Russian allies received their baptism of Are on the French front on Saturday. After French artillery preparations, the Russian companies entered the German trenches and secured prisoners. The Figaro states that Germany was the strongest military nation since the days of Rome., Her national industry was war, and she was armed to the teeth, but she found England stepping into the breach with no army to speak of, and who did not know what war really meant, yet in two years she had produced two armies, which, to-morrow, would be the largest on the Western front. Already she holds up and thrashes the German Empire. BELGIANS AT WORK. GERMAN DEFENCES ATTACKED. Received July 17, 0.35 p.m. London, July 16. A Belgian communique states: During the week our batteries poured a destructive lire on the German defensive works at Di.xmude, Driegac/hten, Steenstraet, Hetsas and Boesiaghe. HEROIC FIGHT AT BAZENTIN. i FRENCH CRITICS VIEWS. GERMANS ROUTED. SOUTH AFRICANS DO GOOD WORK. ,Received July 17, 5.5 p.m. Paris, July 10. One hundred German dead bore wit--1 ness to the heroic struggle at Bazentin. ! The Journal Le Petit states that the ■ English are irresistible and that the Germans are realising once more thai they are beaten. They have ordered up what is left of the Prussian Guard, hut the British have inflicted cruel loss on the Kaiser's picked troops. The British routed the Germans and took Longueval in seventy-five minutes. ! The South Africans took Belville Wood. ~ . THE CAVALRY'S FIRST CHANCE. A GLORIOUS EXPLOIT. GERMANS SHRIEK FOR MERCY. THOROUGH WORK OF LANCE AND BABRE. Received July 17, 5.5 p.m. London, July 10. The Times correspondent at headquarters, describing Friday's battle, says the most dramatic incident was the cavalry action. Companies of the Dragoon Guards and Decan Horse crossed the trenches and made way in the neighbourhood of the high wood covering the left of our advance on Longueval. They came under machine-gun lire, but the casualties were immaterial, the enemy sniping from a cornfield. Tiie cavalry went through the fields joyfully, one troop with lances and the other with sabre. When the horses came on many Germans threw themselves down, shrieked for mercy, and desperately clutched the horses' legs as they passed Lances and sabres did their work so cleanly and thoroughly that, with the exception of 34 prisoners, no Germans were left alive. When the little job was finished the cavalry sent back t»e herses and dug trenches for the infantry to take over. PORTUGAL READY TO HELP. STATEMENT BY THE PREMIER. Reuter Service. Received July 17, 10.30 p.m. Paris, July 17. The Eclair publishes an interview with the Portguese Premier, who stated that Portugal is ready to assist the Allies by grading troops to France or elsewhere whenever the Allies desire, the course of events and Portugal's financial resources determining the number. REJOICINGS IN PARIS. ■Paris, July 16. The city was never in such joyous spirits. Large Sunday crowds are swarming in ulie streets and pay voluble tributes to the "British John Bull, who has the Bosches on the run." General Haig's name is affectionately mentioned and all agree that the British fought with unequalled courage, dash and vigor and that the results are remarkable because the Germans had prepared for the most strenuous resistance.