SOMME BATTLE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17273, 14 September 1916, Page 7

SOMME BATTLE.

BRITISH FRONT. ENEMY ARTILLERY AT WORK. •f The High Commissioner reports:— LONDON. September 12. A British officii message says:— Yesterday we caused two large conflagrations in the enemy’s ammunition depots at Grandecourt. There was hostile artillery fire in the night-time between Delville Wood and Mouquet Farm. WITH THE FRENCH. enemy attack repulsed, trench at BERNY taken. The High Commissioner reports:— LONDON. September 12. A French official message says:— South of the Somme we repulsed an enemy attack east of Belloy-en-San-t<!We occupied a German trench south of Berny cemetery. There has been the usual cannonade elsewhere. terrific cannonade. PRELUDE TO ANOTHER ADVANCE Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, September 12. The “ Petit Parisien ’’ states that the cannonade continues to rage in Picardy. It is especially violent from Barleux to Chaulnes, and is of the sahle character and intensity as that which preceded the advance on September 3. ENEMY DAILY WEAKENING. Reuter'* Telegrsm*. PARIS, September 12. Correspondents on the British front hint that the Germans, who arc everywhere outfought, cannot much longer resist the deluge of steel. COMMUNICATION SJIASHED. EFFECT OF ARTILLERY FIRE. Reuter’s Telegrams. NEW YORK, September 12. An Associated Press correspondent with the German armies cables that the Allies’ artillery, preceding the latest attacks on the Somme, shook windows a; Cambrai. A realisation of what this inferno means may be gathered from the fact that the troops were going for the first timo prepared to hold out for a week without communication, while carrier pigeons had replaced telephones from the front to the rearward, owing to the lines being regularly smashed.