FRENCH GAINS CONSOLIDATED

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14544, 24 October 1917, Page 5

FRENCH GAINS CONSOLIDATED

ARTILLERY STRUGGLE ON THE AISNE AND TEE MEUSE.

' (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Reuter.)

(Received Oct. 23/11.40 p.m.)

London, Oct. 23

A %ench communique says: During the djjjp the enemy artillery reaccted freely m Belgium.

Our troops consolidated the positions on the conquered ground north of Veldhoek. In the attack this morfiing two field guns were captured

The artillery struggle is violent in the Epine-de-Chcvrigny. and Pantheon sector, and in the Cerny.region.

There are fairly lively artillery actions at Avocourt Wood and north of Chaume Wood.

Between October 11th and 20th nineteen enemy machines and three balloons were brought down, and 28 aeroplanes were seriously damaged.