BRITISH ON THE SOMME
ENEMY ATTACKS REPELLED
RESULTS OF AERIAL FIGHTING
(Reuters Telegram.)
LONDON, 25th September. Sir Douglas Kaig reports : South of the Ancre three attacks by the enemy west of Lesboeufs were repulsed with loss. There is artillery activity at many points. Five raids were made by our airmen on railway stations, and on the enemy's lines of communications. Five hostile machines were destroyed in the air fighting yesterday, two others being brought down and damaged. Five of our machines aro missing. The High Commissioner reports :—
LONDON, 25th September, 2.45 p.m. A British official report states that southward of the Ancre an enemy attack east of Courceletto was repulsed. North of Neuve. Chapello and also north-of Hulluch we exDloded. mines, damaeins enemy work?
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 75, 26 September 1916, Page 7
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