THE GERMAN STATEMENT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 9 October 1916, Page 7

THE GERMAN STATEMENT

(Received Oct. 9, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 8. A German communique states: A ,{fresh Anglo-French attempt to bi*eak^ ■through between the Ancre and the Somme was unsuccessful. There has a continued increase in the strength of the enemy's artillery, fire during the past few days.' General yon Bulow's army "by'stubborn resistance and hard hand-to-hand fighting

.repulsed a gigantic/thrust, and the enemy only penetrated our lines at Le ; Sars, north-eastward of Les Boeufs, between Morval and St. Pierre -'Vaast wood. Boelcke has downed his if hirtieth aeroplane..

The Roumanians are yielding on the whole Trahsylvanian east front. We captured Brasso. We repulsed advances on the front and sides of the Monastir-Florina railway.