THE WEST FRONT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 4369, 13 October 1916, Page 5

THE WEST FRONT.

FRENCH ORGANISING NEW POSITIONS. ENEMY REPULSED BN THE VOSGES. BRITISH RAIDS SUCCESSFUL. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, Oct. 11. Sir Douglas Haig reports increased enemy artillery north.of Neuville St. Vaast. We raided trenches south of Hulluch. A French communique reports: We have organised the positions captured south of the Somme. The prisoners now total 1377. The enemy violently attacked Syhoehoelz, in tlie Vosges. Some parties reached our trendies, and were driven back 1 with heavy losses. ALLIES’ LATEST REPORTS. HEAVY BOMBARDMENT KEPT UP. (Routor' s Telegrams.) (Received Out. 12, 8.30 p.m) LONDON, Oct. 12. Sir Douglas Haig reports a heavy enemy bombardment all day.' Attempted enemy attacks north of Ooureelette were stopped. We shelled hostile infantry assembling in the. rear. Our aeroplanes yesterday bombed and destroyed two enemy, battery positions and damaged many others. They penetrated well behind the enemy front and bombed 'railway stations, trains and billets effectively. Two of our machines engaged seven hostile aeroplanes and downed or dispersed all. One of the enemy machines was destroyed and two others were severely damaged. Four of our machines are missing. A French official message reports a reciprocal bombardment on No entire Somme front. Violent enemy attacks at Bois de Chaulnos were repulsed south of the Somme. BRILLIANT FRENCH VICTORY, CHAULXES NOW ISOLATED. FI’S FALL A MATTER OF TIME ONLY. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received’ Oct. 12. 11.10 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 12. The ‘ Daily Chronicle’s” Paris correspondent says: After three weeks of quiet the French south of the Somme won a brilliant victory in a battle at Dovent, in wlnich the 'l entb Ereneh Army. under General Micheler, straightened a German salient into a. line four miles long and nearly approaching the Berny-Chaulne.s high road. French batteries on Hill 109, near Dovent, cover all the enemy positions to the Somme. Chau hies is in the same predicament as Thiepval and Combles were sixteen, days ago. General von Kathen commanding Silesian, Bavarian, and Wurtemburg troops, fought hard, counter-attack-ing live times with much vigor in the region of Ablaincourt and Chaulnes woods, which bristle with machine guns. THE ITALIAN FRONT. IMPORTANT PROG DESS MADE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received Oct. 12, 9.10 p.m.) ROME, Oct, .12. A communique says:—We captured on Monte Pasubio a whole network ot entrenchments. Ou Cosmagmongengo, to the erp«-.* of Monta Generele and the lowest ot tlie southern slopes of Monte Bode, ive pierced the enemy line. Oil tli • .Julian front, between Sober amt Vertorba'. wo captured several successive entrenrhmci;ts. Near Vipacli we seized Noviala and adjoining strong positions northward. Besides 3034 prisoners, we captured large quantities of arms and ammunition.

ITALY'S C'AITI'RKS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn..) ' (Received October 12. 5.20 p.m.) LONDON, October 12. OHieial: The Italians have taken prisoner 5034 men. including 16-1 oflicers, in the Carso. THE CAUCASUS CAMPAIGN. TUB ICS AGAIN DRIVEN BACK. (■Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) PEI!U)GRAi), Oct. hiA Russian comiiiviiiique states: Tn tin* con si ill region oi tlic Cnucnsus we tl is lodge'l the Turks . from mountain slopes : 1 1 Sega and Oinardjik. .."d gained the right bank ol the Iv.usnniilarisa as far as its mouth. GERMAN POLITICS. opposition to the chancellor. (Australian and X.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received October 12. < .15 p.m.) BERNE. October 12. The “Suldeutshe ZeUung” says Hr von Bet bin ann Holhvog’s opponents bold a majority in the Reichstag owing to the* accession of a large section of the Centre Party. and they are resolved to move a No-confidence vote at the earliest moment after the Reichstag reassembles. r GERMANY’S FOREIGN PROPAGANDA. OYER £10,000.000 SPENT. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) BERNE. Oct. IE 'l'lie German Foreign Office Budget shows that ten millions sterling was spent in foreign press propaganda during two years of the war, two millions going to America, one million •to" Greece, and £1,200,000 to Austrollungarian newspapers. ENEMY REPORTS. G ERAIA~ COMMUNIQUE. (Amelia,, A German communique states: There have been numerous enemy attacks extending far northwards ol the Ancre. The enemy estaohshod himself on a narrow front on our first line between Morval and Bouclmvosnes North-west of Tlnepval fighting continues for a small point d appui. Tim French penetrated \ ormaudovdiors, cutting off a salient including the Gneudemont and Bovent - l:u Vy: South-east of Rhoims we penctiateu the French third line. Ihc enemy is resuming operations m Maros A alley. He retired at Goerzeny Valley, northeast of -Pa.ra.jd. Purwut continues ol the Second Roumanian Army at B.as,so. ■ AUSTRIAN COMMUNIQUE. &wis?w» AMSTERDAM, October 12. A wireless Vienna communique says ._We re-occupied Czintsoredaszi. Tlk enemy’s resistance in the GcoiMountains continues. • The Italians in the Stippaoh region gained ground but we afterwards I drove them back.