The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-09-28
COMBLFS IN
HANDSOFEN-
TENTE ALLIES
Several Other Towns Are Taken
in General Advance
Eraly in Week
THE FRENCH TAKE
GERMAN TRENCHES
Result of Thrust in Direction of
Peronne - Roumanians Appar-
emily Holding Own Events
in Macedonia and Arabia

i
| London, Eng. Attacking SIM
ultaneously on an arc of fifteen
miles running from Martinpuisch
to the Somme, the British and
French forces have delivered an
other smashing blow on the Ger
man lines, and pushed forward
their positions for notable gains.
| From Martinpuisch to Combles,
a distance of six miles, the British
| have driven on their wedge to
depth of more than a mile and
captured in the attack the impor-
tant stragetic towns Les Boeufs
and Morval, the latter a scant mile
north of Combles.
To the French fell the town of
Rancourt, two miles east, and the
outskirts of Fregicourt, in the vi
cinity of Bouchavesnes and to the
south from the vicinity of the Ca
nal Du Nord sto the Somme were
taken. Combles was entered on
Tuesday.
Another notable step in their
approach upon Peronne is marked
in the capture by the French of
trenches in the Canal Du Nord re-
gion.
Except in France there have
been no important engagement =.
on any of the various fronts. Ber-
lin reports the repulse of Russian
attacks in Volhynia, Galicia, and
the Carpathian Mountains. Pet
rograd is still silent as to the op-
erations on the Eastern front, but
unofficial advices say the Russians
have begun new offensive on a
large scale in the hope of putting
down the counter-atttacks of the
Teutons and piercing their front
before winter sets in.
The Rumanians are still strug-
Cling for the supremacy over the
Teutonic Allies in the Szurduk and
Vulcan passes of the Transylva-
nlan Alps, but according to Ber-
lin all their attacks have been re-
pulsed.
In the Macedonian campaign
continued reports of successes for
the Entente Allies come from the
various war chancellories. West
of Florina, the Russians have cap
tured hill from the Bulgars; the
Serbians have crossed the frontier
into their own country and reach
ed a position north of Kreusgrad,
while the French northeast of
t'lorina have penetrated the out
skirts of Petorak. The British to
the north Of Lake Tahinos, on the
eastern end of the battleline al
so report an advance, but Berlin
says that all their attacks were re-
pulsed.
Aside from the capture by the
Italians Of an important noun
tain peak on the Trentino front,
only bombardments have taken
place in the Austro-ltalian thea
ire.
Another success for the Arabian
revolutionists is reported in
Reuter- dispatch from Cairo today.
1t states that the sheriff of Mecca,
leader on the revolutionary
movement which has resulted in
the capture of Turkish garrison at
Mecca and other important points,
now reports that the Turkish gar
rison which has been holding out
in the forts of Taft, sixty-five
miles east of Mecca has been fore
I'd to surrender. The troops that
surrendered, the dispatch adds,
fifty officers and 500
men with large number of guns
and a number of military stores.
British monitors and destroyers
Dombarded the Belgian coast Sun
lay between the Heyst and Bruges
according to a Reuter- dispatch
from Flushing.