OFFICIAL REPORTS OF LIGHTING

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 23 October 1916, Page 7

OFFICIAL REPORTS OF LIGHTING

SATISFACTORY WORK

(Received Oct<: 23, 11.50 a.m.) Paris, Oct. 22. A 'communique says: All gains in JSomme^on Saturday have fyeen inainta~m?cl:p"gaa;"despite a violent'attack on our new .positions in the vicinity of Chauhies, fh^'enemy was repulsed with heavy losses., Aeroplanes bombed railway statiozu^at'St. Ouentin and also at Courcelles,- eas% of Metz.

(Reuter Service), ■. ' LONDON, Oct. 22. A British official message, from' Salonika says that owing to bad weather there were only patrol encounters. General Haig says yesterday?s attack was very successful, and the whole bbiective was gained. We took 800 prisonc. s: our casualties are "believed to be s'.ight. The enemy did not attempt to retake captured ground. ■