FURTHER ALLIED ADVANCES,

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 25 October 1916, Page 5

FURTHER ALLIED ADVANCES,

MOEE TRENCHES TAKEN

MARKED DECLINE IN BRITISH LOSSES.

NEW INVENTIONS PROVING EFFECTIVE.

LONDON, Oct. 24. General Sir Douglas Haig reports: v; e kave advanced our line eastward ot brueudecourt and Les Boeufs, capturing a thousand yards of trenches. Our artillery stopped the enemy, who attempted an attack southward of brrandcourt.

Two raids were attempted on Sunday night against the trenches in the Gommecourt neighborhood. Our fire stopped one and inflicted heavy casualties; the second penetrated the outpost lines, a counter-attack promptly driving the enemy out. Aeroplanes on Sunday bombed two railway stations behind the enemy's lines, hitting a train in motion, and doing much damage to buildings and rolling- stock. Seven enemy machines were brought down, and many others were damaged and forced to descend, ililgnt or our machines have not returned.

. PARIS, Oct. 24. ■A communique says: We have appreciably progressed northwards of Morval.

wu! , r „, LONDON, Oct. 24. . While Mr Philip Gibbs is recuperating in England, Mr Percival Gibbon represents the Daily Telegraph and ?/ ?<-?f ronicle on the Western front. Mr Gibbon describing .the fighting at tne bchwaben redoubt, says lie had just come from Russia, where he had seen heavy artillery firing, but nothing like that, on the Western'front and n w Vn r .anvtl iing like this pouring of' shells m- a cascade, or in a cloudburst ot steel and fire. The Bavarians suffered heavily from our machine-like attack, and great numbers of bodies are lying m the open before the .trenches. As a net result we gained 200 to 400 yards on a front of five thousand yards. .

_.- - NEW YORK, Oct. 24. figures prove a marked decline in the British losses on the Somme, compared with the earlier fighting Some estimates give the German losses at ?Ji y ? er cent Sreater than those °L , • Britlsil 5 whose new methods of attacking and advancing have resulted ™ saving men. It is believed that the tanks and other inventions have saved -the British nearly an army Qorps. ■ v