ON THE SOMME
FHENCH CASUALTIES. Received September 25, noon. PARIS, September 24. Jhe French casualties on the Somme aie proportionately one-half of those of 1915, the minuteness of the artillery preparation and aerial observation enablins the infantry to advance under a curtain of shells moving continuously 200 yards ahead of them. ENEMY TRENCHES ENTERED. ARTILLERY ACTIVITY. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received September 2"), 12.5 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 24. ■ Sir Douglas ifaig reports considerable artillery activity un both sides southward of the Ancre. We entered the German trenches eastward of Neuville St. Vaast and took prisoners.
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Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13294, 25 September 1916, Page 5
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