THE GERMAN STATEMENT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 25 October 1916, Page 7

THE GERMAN STATEMENT

LARGE ROUMANIAN CAPTURES CLAIMED.

, (Received October 25, 11.50 a.m.) LONiXXN, Oct. 24. A German communique states: The Franco - British attempt to break through were sanguinarly defeated north of the Som'me, the dead lying in heaps west of Le Transloy. The .French advance in the Abiainoourt-Chaulnes

sector, and also near Verdun, was ' stopped. , ; '

\v 9 captured Predeal after bitter fighting,:.-and;'broke1 down tne Roumanian resistance at the southern exit fi Red Tower pass., Cavalry pursuit disordered the enemy. We reached the region of Caramurat and captured ' Medjide and Rasovo: The booty including Saturday's, totals 6770 prisonk ers, 32, machine guns and twelve can(non., .-. _ - \--.. ■. ■ v ■■•■■•-.-