The sun., 1916-11-07
TEUTON LOSS HEAVY
IN S0MME ADVANCE
Paris Asserts German Gain
Was Made at Trpmpn-
dOus Cost.
HOT BATTLE IN WOOD
French Continue Progress In
st. Pierre Vast Region.
Repulsing Attacks.
HOT BATTLE ~ WOOD

LONDON. Nov. 6.-The most successful
German counter attack on the Somme
front In some time was made last night
and this morning. II resulted In the loss
to the French and British Of some OF
the positions won yesterday. The French
progressed In the northern part OF st.
Pierre Vast wood this afternoon ana
took 600 prisoners.
Both French and British adit their
losses In the unit attack. The
French say they had TO give up some
houses IN Sailly-Saiilisel and parts OF
the old german fourth line trench along
the southwest edge of the ST. Pierre
Vast wood The British lost some Of
the positions they had captured near
Butte de Warlencourt.
According to the German statement.
400 prisoners were taken. OF whom more
than 400 Were Frenchmen. and IL ma
chine guns all OF whi.h were taken from
the English.
Attack on Ten Mile Front.
The attack by the Allies yesterday,
the German statement says. WAS an at
tempt Oh a large scale to capture all or
most Of the strong positions south OF
Bapaume. u was made along a ten
mile front and with prOdigious artillery
preparation.
TIL wind blew 40 strongly yesterday
that neither the allied troops NOR the
Germans were aided to any great extent
by %aeroplane observation when the at
lacks were made. according to a corre-
%spondent at headQua rters. As q result
the artillery fire was less accurate than
usual and shells exploded In most unex-
pected places.
At one point in the German lines eome
800 Germans surrendered en- bloc with
their officers. They were sent across
No Mans Land. through their w bar
rage fire at a run. back TO the French
lines. escorted by only half n dozen
French guards.
T%o-night's French Official announce
ment follows:
North OF the somme we continued
our progress during the day In the
northern part of 81. Pierre Vast
wood. We have taken in this sector
since yesterday owe 500 prisoners.
II Ia confirmed that the enemy in
the course OF his violent counte at
tacks last night on our positions In
the ~. Pierre Vast wood suffered
very heavy losses.
Quiet At VerdSW.
on the Verdun sector there has been
only an artillery struggle which con-
tinued In the ouaumont-Vaux-Dam
loup region.
| The French statement said
North OF the Somme We made some
rogre@s between Les Bpufs and Sally
Saillis-l Yesterday evening and dur
ing the night the enemy violently
COUNTER attacked the positions which
we had taken. from Sally Saillisel rs
far south as 81. Pierre WAIST wood.
All attacks delivered against our new
trenches on the northern spur and
western edges of the wood withered
under our machine guns and artillery
IRE. which inflicted heavy losses on the
enemy. Southwest OF the wood and
IN the village Of Sailly-Saillisel the
enemy succeeded In gaining 4 little
ground.
The British night statement says,
our front betw-en tn. Ancre and The
Somme was heavilS shelled to-day.
especially in the neighborhood OF Les
BUufs and lie Sars. ON our right We
continued the consolidation of the
ground occupied YESTERDAY. Dur ar
tillery and trench morta-s sue
cessfully bombarded hostile trenches
south %: .Armentier.~
The German statement follows:
Army Group of Crown Prince Rup.
piNNh ~ Nv OoNNit ot
the Somne the 9Th Of November was
another fighting day OF the first class.
The British and French. with very
strong forces and employing the
whole firing capacity OF their artil-
lery. made a powerful advance against
the front Of Gen. Won Bellows army.
Troops from different parts OF Ger
many under the command OF Gems
Baron MaIschall Won Deimllng and
Won GARNER withstood the attack UNI
shaken and inflicted a severe defeat
upon the enemy.
The allied enemy on The entire front
from lie Sars to B~ouchavesnes. a dis
lance Of twenty kilometers, along
which they attacked. suffered very
heavy saneuinary losses and accom-
plished nothing except A small local
gain in the north part OF 81. Pierre
Vast wood. Wherever the enemy at
other places pushed his way into our
line h. was Immediately elected. lie
lef, ten officers. $40 men and booty In
our hands. Northeast of lie Sars more
than seventy prisoners and eleven
machine gums were brought in.