BRILLIANT VICTORY.
FRENCH GAINS. CHAULXES IX BAD PLIGHT. iutlmUan and S.Z. Cahlr Aisoeiatlan. LONDON', October 12. The "Daily Chronicle's" Paris correspondent slalcs sifter Hirer weeks of quiet, the French south of the Sonune won a brilliant victory in the battle of Bovent, in which the 10th French Army, under General Micheler, straightened a German salient into our line four miles lons and nearly approaching the BernyGbaulnes high road. The French batteries on Hill II)!), near Bovent, cover all the enemy positions to the Sonune, and Gbaulnes is in the same predicament as were Thiepval ami Cmnbles l(i days ago. General von Kathen, commanding Silcsian. Bavariiin, and Wurlcmburg troops, fought hsird, counter-attacking live limes with much vigour in the region of Ablaincourt and Chaulncs Woods, which bristle with machine guns.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 835, 13 October 1916, Page 7
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