Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-05
DESPERATE FIGHT
NOW IN PROGRESS
ONFRENCH FRONT
Germans Making Counter At.
taCks In Region of Bapaume
Where the British Re-
Gently Advanced.
FRENCH ON THE OFFENSIVE
English Losses $500 Per Day
Germans Defaat 2uman.
ian First Army in East
Pennsylvania.
FRENCH ON THE OFFENSIVE

London, OCT. 2.--3riIish losses in
September weve ~ tive rata OF more
than $500 a day. The casualties on all
fronts reported in .hia month weit:
Officers. $3.50; men. i14,;1
Desperate lighting has bean in r:og-
ress along the northern ena OF the
Somme front, where the British haze
recently made important inroe9s upon
German positions Gouth of the Ancre.
london today reports heavy counter
attacks by the near the Stuff
redoubt n the Hessian trench, and
declared that a division of the new Brit
ish army acquitted itself with great
credit i'll beating OF the Germans.
Further down tho line, toward tie
Sommc, the French nave resumed their
attacks, pushing farther the wedge into
the German lines in the region OF Ran
courts. The new French advance, &C
'cording TO Paris, was scored BY means
of hand grenade operations north OF
Gancourt.
Total Loss 307, 1869.
Heavy az were tho British Losses in
September, they were lighter than
| those of August, which were 127,9i5. q
daily average of 4,127. In July, the
first month of the Somme offensive,
| the losses We're about half those OF Au-
gust or September Notwithstanding the
fact that in July the British stormed
the first line German defenses. Inc
casualties III that month were b9,675,
so tina the total for The three months
of the Somiae drive is 307 1863.
The Overseas News agency esti-
mates thai the combined French n
British losses in the Sommc battle up
to September is, amounted to about
SOC, 900.
since January IS the British gov-
--.---A -. .u,,~l ,,>. i,r,,,.o, 80 fS} a
losses. Up to that time the daily av-
erage OF losses from the beginning of
the wal was slightly more than 1000.
Bulaars Report Gain.
In Macedonia the Bulgarians report
a success in the Kaiinakcatan region
near the Serbian border, where a e
of the main German position was cap
tured after n Serbian attack had been
repulsed. No important changes In the
situation elsewhere in Macedonia or III
Dobrudja are announced
Petrograd reports that there have
been no important happenings either
on the Russian front or In the Cnu-
casus
Today's official report from, the Lon
don war office says:
During the night, tho ene1hH
shelled heavily our battle front sout!
of the Ancre. We consolidated tht
ground won yesterday morning at Des'
JISIIloill Hui III, Iloi NhNS't VI - So
improved our position On the Thicpva
area.
IAN enemy counter attack was beat
en- off in the ~neighhorhood Of sschwaher
redoubt Hcssian trench. The fight.
ing in this section yesterday was yer.
severe and our troops en2aged-a di-
vision of the new arrnY--ShcWed Br"a
endurance and resolution.
"a successful raid vas made by /
, london territorial battalion south o
Melville st. Vaast, where the encn.
trenches were captured n prisoners
were taken"
Paris, Sept. 30.-The French haV.
made further progress north Of Ran
c court by grenade attacks. according t
the official statement issued by TT
war office today.