THE WESTERN THEATRE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLIII, Issue 13, 15 August 1916, Page 6

THE WESTERN THEATRE.

THE ANZACS. ! BIRDWOOD'S TESTIMONY. LONDON, August 12. i General Bird wood, writing to the » Commissioner of the Australian Com- > forts Fund in appreciation of the* work, adds: "Our hoys have been going 1 through a lot of terribly hard fighting I j during the last three weeks. They have • | done .-imply magnificently. No words ' | could half express my feelings of their • courage and determination in sticking it out. We not only captured Pozieres, ' but tiie much more diilicult ground above and beyond. I am sorry to say ihat our casualties, as was inevitable, ijre heavy, not in the taking of the trenches but in the holding of them ' artc-rwards, because it is extremely difficult to provide cover against the heavy guns.'' GERMAN LOSSES. THE BAVARIANS. LONDON, August 12. A Munich message states that the Bavarians' losses at the Sornrne in .July were 14,5(10 men killed, (57,000 wounded and 4000 missing. IMPORTANT GAINS. PARIS, August l.'i. A communique states: Attacking the third German position on a 61-kilometre front eastward of l Hardeeourt to Buseourt, on the Somme, our infantry took all the trenches and 1 various strongly organised works from j a depth of 600 to 1000 metres. We seized the southern portion of Maurej pas and the cemetery, and established new lines ou the southern slope of Hill I 100 along the iMaurepas-Clery road and jtlie ridge westward of Clery. A eoun- | ter-attack between Clery and Maurepas | tollApsed.