FIGHTING IN THE WEST.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 857, 8 November 1916, Page 9

FIGHTING IN THE WEST.

FRENCH MAKE PROGRESS HEAVY ENEMY LOSSES. I .1. ci'd .V./. AysniddHun a,ul It'uffr. 1 DAHLS, November 7. A communique says:—North of the ! Somme we continued to make progress in the northern paid of the i SI. Dierre Vaast Wood. | Over (i(JO prisoners have been tak- | en here since yesterday. It is confirmed that the enemy suffered very heavy losses during his ’violent counter-attacks on the wood yesterday night. Nothing has happened at Verdun except a continued cannonade in the Douaumont, \aux, and Damloup regions. j THE BRITISH SECTOR. GAINS CONSOLIDATED. .i . Aim! ( llhlf A .'•-.V/.i* Ir,t• orl fl Uil I,‘fnfsr. i LONDON, November 7. i Sir Douglas Haig reports:—Our front was heavily shelled in the neighbourhood of Leshoeufs and I.e Sars. The consolidation of the ground I occupied on Sunday was continued. We sueessiul bombarded trenches - south >f Armentieres. MAGNIFICENT DASH. i AN OVERWHELMING RUSH.

Australian ami X.Z, fable Association. PARIS, November (i. Correspondents emphasise the magnilieent dash of the Biiiish and French troops on Saturday and Sunday when General i'oeh and Sir Douglas liaig look advantage of a spell of tine weather. The British in a few moments, earned heights east of Le Sars and north-east of Gueudeeourt. while the Freneh carried three lines of trenches on a front formidably fortified at the forest of St. Pierre Vaast. The Germans counter-attacked all day long, hut their efforts were indecisive until four o’clock on Sunday morning. Prisoners confirm the statement that the German losses have lately been tremendous, largely due to the had direct’on of their own artillery, whose aim fell short, thus pouring tons of projectiles on to their own infantiy. A GALLANT RESCUE. ACT OF NEW ZEALANDER. Vuitfd Sirrvi» % e. LONDON. November (>. Sir Joseph Ward, at the Lord Mayor's luncheon to his oversea guests, said that an instance of gallantry, deserving the Victoria Cross, had been brought to his notice at the front. Tilslev. of Rotorua, an electrician, went into No Man’s Land when the Germans were 3(10 feet away, and carried in a comrade who was shot in the leg.