The reports from the Somme denote the maintenance of : nceasing pressure upop the enemy’s lines, resulting in daily gains at one point and another and bringing the more important objectives of the great aggressive movement ever nearer. There is, however, to-day, no incident of special significance to note/ excepting, perhaps, Sir Douglas Haig’s reference to our loss of aeroplanes, which would indicate that the enemy is improving this branch of his service. From Petrograd the messages of the last two days show that very heavy fighting is still going on in Volhynia and Galicia, as yet without any definite result, and also that the Austro-Germans are making a violent and sustained en-
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 260, 19 October 1916, Page 4
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