BRILLIANT FRENCH VICTORY
ENEMY LINE STRAIGHTENED.
OVER A FOUR-MILE FRONT.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association
(Press Assn. —Reed. 11.30 p.m.)
LONDON, October 12
The "Daily Chronicle's" Paris correspondent says: Afcer three weeks quiet the French, south of the S amine, won a brilliant victory in a battle at Govent, in which the Tenth French Army under General Michelen straightened the German salient into line over a section four miles long, nearly approaching the Berny-Chaul-nes road. The French batteries on Hill 109, near Covent, cover all the enemy positions to the Somme. C'hanlnes is in the same predicament as Thiepval and Combles- Sixteen days ago General yon Kathen, commanding th e Silesian, Bavarian and Wurteniburg troops, fought hard, counterattacking xive times with much vigour in the region of Ablaincourt and Chaulnes Woods, which bristle with machine-guns.
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Northern Advocate, 13 October 1916, Page 3
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