The sun., 1916-09-10
BRITISH, IN HOT FIRE,
TAKE ALL GINCHY
Complete Capture Of Village
After Artillery Assault on
3 1-2 Mile Front.
NOW MENACE TO COMPLIES
Allies Make Gains Along the
SOmme and in Vcrdun
Region.

LONDON, Sept. s.-British and French
gained more victories or the somre and
at Verdun to-day. They took importan,
positions and several hundred prisoners
after tremendous artillery lombard.
ments.
The British north OF the somme this
afternoon made the most important ad.
vance In an assault on q front Of three
and a half miles. and TOOK all the re.
mainder OF Ginehy. They also took more
ground near Ginehy. making q total ad.
vance Of 900 yards to a depth OF 500
yards into the German trenches.
These new British advances make
more serious the menace to Combles and
Also put the British in possession of al
most all. OF the last remaining uncon.
quered peak Of the Albert Ridge. which
dominates German positions for miles.
Ihey practically finish the shing of
the German second line north of the
Somme.
Attack From HiGh WOOD,
The attack herr was made on a front
extending from High Wood (Fourcaux
wood. which Is northwest OF Ginchy,
10 the Leuxe Wood. which Is southeast
OF Ginchy and only a mile northwest
OF Comblcs. The main object Of the
British dash was to clear out nj, the
Germans from the eastern part of
Ginchy. which they stu he'd s%tubbornly.
In bloody hand to hand nght.ng, in
which quarter was neither asked nor
given. the British did what they had sc,
out TO do. and more. They pushed their
lines east Of Ginchy. following the fee
ing Germans. and gained ground about
the railroad where IL loops east Of I.euze
Wood. They pushed ahead also on ths
plateau east OF High Wood.
In the shell swept trenches northeast
OF Poz!eres the British made another
smash at the same time that the assault
further south began. Here also they
were successful and overran and held
500 yards OF German trenches near
Martinpuich. The village itself they did
not try to occupy. for the German artil-
lery Are upon II Is SO strong that troops
cannot live there.
Many Prisoners Taken.
Prisoners were taken In both attacks.
but the number hus far is not known.
Sixty have been sen; back from the cap
'nred tren"hss about Pozieres. The
British took q score Of prisoners earlier
in the day when they storned a German
trench in High Wood. Two were officers.
The French were not inactive on their
par; Of the Somme from; during the day
u carried a small! wood by assault
with :he hayonet east OF Belloy-en-San-
terre. In the direction Of Viliers-Carbon-
mel. East OF beniecourt the French also
made some progress In very stubborn
fighting.
ON the 2i0,h day OF the great v.rdun
battle the French again took the Of
fens!ve on that from, and swept back the
Germans east of the village OF Fleury.
scene OF so much desperate fighting. The
poilus. In what the French War Once
describes az Il "hr ll!ant assault" took
n whole section a. German trenches. 200
prisoners and several machine guns.
Before Verdun the great German Of
fens!ve has died, and It .s beginning to be
a great French offensive. The gains to-
day east OF Fleury are but part Of a
steady drive TO get back Forts Vaux and
Douaumont, the two outlying defenses Of
the Nerdun system that the Crown
Prince took at such great cost. German
troops have been drawn from Verdun to
10 TO the Rumanlan and Somme fronts,
and the artillery is weaker.
French Rrpuise Germans.
German counter attacks here are un-
awaiting. Last night another o! these
attacks on the trenches TIE French have
taken In Naux Chapitre Wood was re-
pulsed by the French barrage fire.
Another British oYensiv. north OF the
present one on the Somme. or an ex-
tension Of II. IL suggested by continued
reports OF trench raids and artillery FIRE
az strategic points along the line. Last
night the British bombarded German
trenohes on Why ridge. opposite Sou
chez, and near the inn called the RED
Cabaret" This is the I~ns-Arras sec
tor. Near Arras me Neuve Chapelle
there were more trench raids
Prisoners taken by the French troops
alone on the Somme front since Septem-
her 3 amount to 5000 men. including
about 100 officers. II Ia announced. The
British have taken about half that num-
her. Reports from various sources
agree that the German losses during the
last allied attacks rave been great.