ON THE SOMME

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 90, 13 October 1916, Page 7

ON THE SOMME

GATHERING ROUND CHAUL.NES

LINE STRAIGHTENED BY BRIL-

LIANT VICTORY.

(AESIRAUAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

LONDON, 12th October. The\Daily Chronicle's Paris correspondent writes : —"After three weeks of quiet, the French, south of the Somme, won a brilliant victory at the battle o! Bovent, in which the Tenth French Army, under General Micheler, straightened the German salient into a line four miles long, nearly approaching the high road between Berny and Chaulnes. The French batteries on Hill 109, near Bovent, cover all the enemy's positions to the Sorame. Chaulnes is in the same predicament as were Thiepval and Combles sixteen days ago. General yon Kathen, commanding the Silesian, Bavarian, and Wurtemberg troops, fought hard, counter-attacking five times witlt much vigour in the region of Ablaincourt and the Chaulnes wood,. which bristle with machine-guns." LONDOi\, 12th October. A French official commuliiqne reports a reciprocal bombardment along the Somme front. Violent attacks by the enemy at the Chaulnes wood were repulsed. (BEBTER'S TELEGRAM.) (Received October 13, 10.30 a.m.) PARIS, 12th October. A communique states : There is reciprocal artillery work south of the Somme and in the'Woevre. It is quiet elsewhere.