WESTERN FRONT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11697, 17 October 1916, Page 5

WESTERN FRONT.

THE COMMANDER’S REPORT. ADVANCE REACHES LOW GROUND London, Got. 16. Sir'Douglas Haig reports: Our line "was slightly advanced northeast of Gueudecourt. There was enemy artillery activity elsewhere. A Headquarters’ correspondent says. Beyond Gueudecourt we have practically reached the lowest ground before the new’ ascent commences. Durng the recent advance we captured a gun and 600 gas shells. We turned it on the enemy until we had exhausted every round. must be very sick of their own medicine. AERIAL ACTIVITY. Baris, Oct. 16. A communique says; There is great aerial activity on the Somme. Un wounded prisoners captured yesterday in the Ablincourt-Belloy sector number 1100. ! GERMAN INCREASED ARMAMENT. London, Oct. 16. The Daily Express correspondent at Headquarters says Arnim’s appeal for more machine guns has evidently been heard, because they are novy hunched thicker than ever. They are now hidden in emplacements and dotted in defences to 300 yards behind the front trenches, but are so thick that they necessarily suffered more under our artillery.