, 1916-11-08

Darded hostile trenches south of Armentieres
yesterday in spite of the gale our air.
craft did useful work observing for the ar
tlllery. One machine was in the air more
than three hours.
Paris, Via London, November 6th-The
official communication issued tonight saws
north OF the Somme we continued our pro
gress during the day in the northern part
q -. Fior'e V.ast Woods. We ha.s s:x-
en- in this sector since yesterday over six
hundred prisoners. It is confirmed hat the
enemy in the course of his violent counter
attacks last night on our positions in the St.
P~lerre-Vaast Wood suffered very heavy losses.
On the Verdun sector there has been only
artillery struggles, which continued in the
Douaumont-Va a Damloup region, In the
Vosges a sudden attack on one of our small
posts in the Fecht Valley failed. Or the
remainder of the front calm prevailed. Eas-
tern Army. Along the whole front Mace
donla) there is nothing to report, except
intermittent artillery duels and patrol en-
counters British aeroplanes have dropped
several bombs on Bogdan (eight miles north
east of Doiran.)
Rome, via Paris, Nov. 6th-The follow
ing official communication regarding activity
by the Ltali"" ne"o! tc.cea Is :ss3sa tSaa:T.
Anchorage Of the Austrian feet at Pola, and
fired two torpedoessat a large warship and
returned unscathed after making q compre-
hensive reconnaissance under the guns of
the fortress. Italian torpedo boats sunk q
large enemy steamer moored under the
shelter at Durazzo (Albania) the night of
November Bird.
Petrograd, Nov. 6th-Via London-The
otholal statement issued today by the Rus
cIon W0p - ma 80 -; -. n ~
region east of the, village of Silaventin the
enemy assumed the offensive several times
with the object of capturing commanding
heights wh;oi 10 occupied. Az siaa ,u,m1
attacks were frustrated by our violent rife
and artillery fire, The battle continues. In
the wooded C%arpathians the enemy launch
ed three successive attacks against our
troops in the region of Hill 5781, ten versts
south Of Mount Pneva, rne eneay met
with no success, being repulsed by our fire
on each occasion. In the region of Kirli-
bahia the enemy attacked the position of
one OF our gallant young regiments, three
and one halt versts east of that place, but
was repelled. The attack was repeated and
the enemy broke into our trenches and
captured one machlne-gun, but was driven
iloAn 'no ILononos 10y II OUuuter-AtUuck Iue
machlne-gu was recaptured. Ia the re-
gIon south of Mount Lamuntelu our troops
as the result of an engagement occu-
pied a series Of heights. capturing 8
officers, 306 men, six maoulue-guus, 81 onses
nt she's md 10 coses containing MACHINE
gun belts. On the Caucasian front repeated
attempts to attack our detachments south
west of Ognott were arrested by our fire.
Vienna, Nov. 6th-rhe following official
communication was issued today. Eastern
theatre. Front of Archduke Charles Francis.
Roumanlan attacks in northern Wallachia
were again completely without result. We
gained ground south of the Vorotorony Red
Tower Pass region and captured Laom Hill.
In the Bonzaer frontier mountains and near
Bekah and hughes fighting continues.
East OF Klrlibaba detachments of the 42nd
Ihereslenstadt (Bohemia) Infantry Regiment
and other troops detachments took by sur
PRISE q height capturing 200 Russians and
one macblne-gun. Front of Prince Leopold.
There Is nothing to report. Italian theatre.
In the coastal region the attacking activity
OF the ltAIi0na hac 1anoipiobnd ooro;lov.I Ii.