WESTERN ATTACK.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1916, Page 5

WESTERN ATTACK.

A SLIGHT ADVANCE.

1100 MORE PRISONERS TAKEN,

jGITOiG ENEMY HIS CWH iIEDICINE. 1 Received Oct. 16, 6.10 p.m, London, Oct. IG. i _ GcriOT' Sir Douglas Haig reports: Our • line luu teen slightly advanced northeast of Gueiidecourt. There is enemy fcrtillery activity elsewhere. A headquarters correspondent states , that beyon! Gueduecourt we practically reached the lowest ground Defore the new ascent commences. During the re- , cent advance we captured a gun and a hundred gas shells, which were turned on t>'o enemy until every round was ex!iunated. The enemy must be very sick pf itj. 'own medicine. Paris, Oct. 18.- „ A .communique states: There is great *ena!. activity on the Somme. Unrounded prisoners captured yesterday in sector totaled GOOD PBOGRES3 REPORTED. -- 1 London, Oct. 15. Sir Douglas Hnig reports: A single , company cleaned up 200 yards of eomf numication trenches northward of the \ . ®tuJF redoubt. The enemv in the Kchwaben redoubt suffered heavily. V, r e -entered trenches in the regions of Serene Coligcourt, Festubcrt, and Xeuve Chapel le. We made an important advance northWard and westward of the Schwaben redoubt, and made successful trench raids elsewhere. •,A French communique says: We ■ smashed counter-attacks, and maintained < yesterday's gains. Western headquarters reports that we advanced well over the plateau to the gentle downward slope, with the result that the. Germans bave regained to »ome extent direct observation for their artillery fire. The ground is practically Titbeut shelter. •THE GERMAX VERSION. London, Oct. 13. A German communique sar.">: English attacks north of Thicpval led to hand-to-hand fighting. The enemy got a firm foothold at one point, But elsewhere was heavily repulsed. The French obtained , ft foothold in the village and sugar /ofinery of Generemont. We hold the isutban part of Ablaincourt.