COMBINED ALLIED MOVE

Evening Star, Issue 16263, 4 November 1916, Page 4

COMBINED ALLIED MOVE

|l v NEAR BETHUNE ROAD. I ;LE TRANSLOY FACED. |j ;rress Associntion—By Telegraph—Copyright, fr-'Australian and N.Z. Cable -Association and *"''; ■' Rente f. \\ . - PARIS, Novemlier 3. |;, .Official: North of the Sommc we ear-|-i\ned out n new operation tetweon Les | ',Booufs and Sailly-Sailhscl whereby an ap't pwci&ble amount of ground was" gained. $ Our total prisoners in this sector since yesterday number 736. J, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. c < LONDON, November 2. jThe jThe 'Daily Chronicle's' Paris corresponj." Sent says that foven battalions of the V Wurtombergs and Silcsians participated J- in the attack on Saillv-Saillisel. Tire »'\ French lines went; dose<l plentifully with ' r \flarning liquid and poison gas Tire OerKUUi infantry advanced bravely to six as- ,* BS.ults, but were smashed up with heavy , v losses. ~ t ,A successful advance later brought the ' ' 'British within 200 yards of the te Trans-' V loy trench, near the south of this im- . portaavt point. Mr Percival Gibbon leports that since '< October 23 the fighting eastward of Les i Boeufs ebbed and flowed against the stubborn Bavarians until only the crest of a trench held out. For a week our artillery t pounded the trench, smashing it out of , ' existence. On October 30 the British, l after fierce bayonet fighting, again rushed tho slopes, and won every objective. Our line is now parallel with the great ■ German system before Tie Transloy. Tho , price paid is not excessive, o.nd that the '. Germans lost heavily is shown by the number of corpses lying in the rain. The Bavarians were so dazed by tho violent, fighting that they declare they destroyed two ".tanks," whereas there were no tanks engaged. The rain continues, and the mv.d is broadening. There are pools of water everywhere, necessitating constant efforts Jo keep the: positions-.in repair.