, 1916-11-15

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in our lines. Many others were driven down
in "a damaged condition. One of our machines
is missing.
London, Nov. 12th,-The bulletin from
headquarters in France issued tonight reads:
The enemy's artillery has shown considerable
activity during the day, particularly in the
neighbourhood of Les Boeufs and Eaucourt
LaBayes. Early in the morning and again
during the afternoon we successfully dis
charged gas against the enemy trenches
north of the Ancre, otherwise there is no
thing to report.
London, Nov. 12th.-The Admiralty today
made the following announcement A squa-
dron of naval aeroplanes on Friday bombed
successfully Bulgarian aerodromes. and stores
at Drama, Porna, and Angistn(on the Macedo-
MAN 'FRONT.' with excellent results.
Paris, Nov. 18th. North Of the Somme
the French have retaken the greater part of
Salllisel village. The fighting continues nc
cording to the bulletin issued by the War
Office tonight. South of the Somme there
has been chiefly artillery action. The Ger
mans dropped bombs on Amiens several
times during the night. Iu the eastern
theatre tue Serbians are carrying on a vl3o-
rous offensive along the Cerna River and
have taken prisoners 500 Bulgarians. The
statement reads. We delivered a sharp at
tack on the village of Saillisel on the Bapaume
road, a greater part of which was captured.
Our troops are occupying the northeastern
outskirts. The struggle continues i'll the
eastern part of the village where the enemy
is still resisting desperately. The lumber
of prisoners counted up to now exceeds one
hundred, including four officers. South OF
the Somme an attack made by the Germans
against our positions south of Pressoit was
ranuISa6 with homie Tha orfillaru 6ual cOn-
tiuues violently on both sides in the region
of Ablaincourt aud Gomiecourt. There was
an ntermitte cannonade on the west of
the front. Between ten aud eleven o'clock
on the morning of the 10Th n group of seven
teen British aeroplaues bombarded the steel
works at Focklingen VoIklingen) north
west of Saarbrucken. One thousand Kill
ogrames of projectiles were dropped
on the buildings which were damaged
seriously. IL the course of the operation
British machines fought several actions
against enemy machines, three of which were
felled. On the following night between 8
and 9 o'clock 8 of our aeroplanes executed u
fresh bombardment of these works, dropping
1000 Kilograms of projectiles. Several fires
we're observed. All our machines returned
safely.
Kingston, Jca. November l3th.--)By Wire
Tess ia DONueuD II is IepOib6u Cua1 IL
United Fruit Cos. Steamer (Suriname) is
ashore off Belize.
Paris, November 11th.-(Continued) Dur
ing the night OF November 10-l1 our sqUa-
drons drenched with projectiles the stations
of Ham, st. Quentin, Tergnier and Nesle in
the Somme region, and the aerodrome at
Dreuze, the blast furnaces of Hagondange
North of Metz. These operations caused
great damage, and several explosions and fires
were observed. A German aeroplane during
the night of Novemberl0-11 bombarded sew
eral French towns. Nancy and Luneville re-
ceived projectiles which caused no damage
or casualties. The open town of Amiens
was also bombarded on various occasions
during the same night. Nine persons of
the civilian population were killed and
twenty-seven injured. Eastern army. On
the left bonk of the Cerna the Ser5iaus
taking the offensive vigorously in the Noun
famous region of Chuke north Of 5koohiver,
busted the Bulgarian forces and drove them
back Notwithstanding fierce resistance from
strongly fortified positions. Up to now 500
prisoners, including 10 Officers, 10 guns, and
10 machine-guns have fallen into the hands
of our Allies. On our left wing q lively
artillery duel continues. We repulsed seve-