Evening star., 1916-08-19
BRITISH ADVANCE
ON TWO-M|LEL| LINE
IN SOMME BATTLE
Penetrate German Positions
200 to GOO Yards From High
Wood Southwark.
FRENCH ALSO SCORE
SUCCESS AT MAUREPAS
Repeated German Counter Attacks
Reported to Have Been
Put Down.
FLEURY POSITION GAINED
FLEURY POSITION GAINED
Gen. Neville's Men Push Ahead,
Inch by Inch, in All-Night
Fight and Finally Take
Position.

LONDON, August Io, 4:4o
p.m.-The British line on the
Somme front has been advanced
over a section two miles long and
200 to Goo yards deep, from High
Wood to the junction point with
the French forces, the war Office
announced today.
The remainder of the ruins on
the edge of the village of Fleury,
on the Verdun front, was cap
tured last night by the French,
the Paris war Office announced to-
day. The battle continued vio-
lently all night long, and the
French won their way forward
foot by foot.
The French forces also have
made further progress in the vii
lage of Maurepas, and also along
the road from Maurepas to ClerY.
Repeated counter attacks were
made on the Somme front by the
Germans. The French statement
says the Germans were repulsed
after violent fighting, leaving fifty
prisoners in the hands of the
French. +
British Report Of Gains.
The latest British statement says:
Fighting took place this afternoon Fn-
day) over the whole front from Pozieres
to the Somme. As result we captured
several strong enemy positions and gained
ground toward Ginchy and Guillemont.
taking more than 200 prisoners dur
ing the day.
"on our right the French also made
progress.
Yesterday a German aeroplane was
brought down af1ame in our trenches
after an air combat. and a second ma
biilets have been successfully lombard
ed at various places by our air craft
Sub-Lieut. George Guynemer of the
French flying corps, whose exploits
the most daring of French aviators. Is
again mentioned by the French wal
ofiee. On August IS he shot down
his fourteenth adversary.
Raid Munitions Station.
British naval aerop1anes raided Ger.
man ammunition stations at LIGHTER
velde. in Belgium, thirteen miles south
west Of Brugcs, yesterday. causing large
fires. the war Office announced today.
AT noon yesterday a successful at
tack was carried out by naval aero
planes on enemy ammunition dumps at
Lichterveide." the statement says.
"Forty-eight bombs were dropped from
a height of about 5000 feet. Large
fires were afterward observed
All the machines returned safely"
Lurid Battle Picture.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES ON
THE sOMME FRONT. August 1s.-The
tnunders of the heaviest rainstorm OF
the season Joined those of the artillery
and flashes of lightning from the heav.
ems We'd with the flashes from the
months Of many guns in q most lurid
battle picture in the darkness of the
: early hours this morning as a finale &c
yesterdays Anglo-French attack from
Pozieres to the Somme. The chilly
heavy downporr continues. making ar.
tSllery observation dificult.
The British main advance was towart
Guillemont. where they gained an i'm
portant position either side of thu
town. besides ground on the right o.
High Wood
No Cessation in Fighting.
F-om the ridge above Pozieres. wher,
the battered stone ruins of a windmill
stand. to the highest point on the hori
zon. along the edges of bloody Higl
Wood and thence along Delville, o.
= DEVILS Wood. to the lower levels Of tn
river valley. where there has been n,
cessation IN the lighting or the pound
ing of the guns day after day, ther
was n continuous cloud of smoke from
the bursting shells a. the British an.
French guns united in their thunders
The British made gains on either sid
of Guillemont, where the Germans still
hold the Notifications of their old sec
ord lire and have their heaviest con
centration of guns.
The fighting stili is in progress q
this writing.