EVENTS ON THE SOMME

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 21 October 1916, Page 7

EVENTS ON THE SOMME

STORIES FOR GERMAN EARS

<Received Oct. 21, 11.30 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Oct. 20. Gprman' authorities have issued a summary belittling • defeats on the -Somnie, describing the battle of Vaasb i - f. s A -cosily failure to the French and f. British attempt to break through An ■account, intentionally confusing, glowingly describes German defence and mentions the loss of successive tfoTtified villages, using the phrase "the position was then ueft to the enemy." 3? !e loss of Combles i s presented as a derma n success, because the garrison escaped heavily laden with arms and „. material. ' .