The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-09-28
Turning, Believe London Ex-
perts-Many Captives
Taken

| l4olidoll, England.-The Brit.
! lsh again advanced on the Som
me front last night, it was off,
clally announced today. The
greatest success was won in the
direction of Eaucourt L'Abbaye.
Paris, France.-The capture of
Combles with its great booty COM
pletcs what is regarded today by
military experts here as one of the
most brilliantly executed operations
|of the summer campaign.
Teh whole front of the attack from
Martinpuich to the Somme has been
pushed forward uniformly for over
a mile. Military observers declare
that the fullness of the success proves
THAT the Allies are incontestably mas
tiers of the situation.
A brilliant French attack east of
/ Vermen-Dovillers succeeded in cap
turing a strongly fortified wood, ac-
'cording to an official statement issued
by tho war office today.
Take Many Prisoners.
| London, ngland-Between 5000
and 1000 prisoners were taken by
the British in Mondays and Tues
days fighting on the Somme front,
i General lIaig's report of Tuesday
might, given out today.
Take Pivotal Points.
London, England.-Combles. the
pivotal point in the German line
guarding the approach to Bapaume,
on the north, and Peronne, on the
south of the somme front, has fall
len before the attacks of the French
1o,.;% %;e1, E,H
to the death or surrendering when
there was no longer hope.
French and British troops swept
in from three sides after their cap
ture of Morval and Fregicourt,
broke through the German defenses,
overran the town and carried all be-
fore them. This place, With its
marvellous subterranean passages
caught in the grip Of the Entente
and south had already advanced
tal beyond it and cut off corlnuni~
cation with the rear, except a mar
TOW strip, which was covered by
the allied guns. At the end of the
fighting the town was filed With the
bodies of Germans, the French OF
1 tIcIGl SlilCIu0ul says.
Thiepval at the northwestern end
of the British line and the fortified
town OF Gueudecourt, northwest OF
Les Bouefs, also have fallen to the
British. General Sir Douglas Haig's
men. after capturing Thiepval, drove
ton eastward and took the Zollern
/ redoubt a strongly fortified posi-
tion which lies between Thiepval
land the bend in the British line at
Courcelette.
The French, likewise, advanced
! beyond Freicourt and captured the
wood between that village and Nor
4 val and the greater part of the Ger
man fortified positions lying between
/ this wood eastward across the Ger
man road to the western portion of
the ST. Naast wood. nipping off an
other portion oil the German line OF
I communication south of Bapaume.
4 The German casualties in the fight
ing are declared by Paris to have
been heavy and in addition the two
! days fighting, more than 200 Ger
mans We're made prisoner by the
French, while the British took in eX-
cess OF $500. Large quantities of
booty were taken by the Entente al
lies.
While Petrograd continues silent
With regard to the operations on the
eastern front, both Berlin and Wen
ma tell Of the repulse of strong Rus
sian attacks in Nolhynia, Galica and
/ the Carpathian mountain region.
On the Rumanian front Austrians
and Germans have been compelled
to evacuate the Vulcan and Szuruduls
passes of the Pennsylvania Alps, in
order to avoid an extensive Ruman-
ian encircling movement.
Sofia reports the capture of the
Amzarech-Pervels line in Dobrudja
from the Russians and Rumanians.
Raids by aircraft of the Teutonic
allies since Saturday night have
resulted in the deaths of 139 per-
sons--74 in England and 65 in
Bucharest, Rumania. A large num-
Der of persons also were injured in
both regions by the explosion of
bombs dropped from Zeppelins and
aeroplanes.