The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-10-01
But the British Have Lost
Heavily at SOmme Front in
The Past Few Weeks and
Desperate Fighting is Still in
Progress Along the Line.
The September Losses of the
English was Something APP
pallirg and Unheard OF in the
History of Wars-Nearly four
Thousand Daily Have Been
Sacrificed by Our Cousins.

LONDON, Sept. 30-Desperate
fighting has been in progress along
the northern end of the Somme front,
where the. British recently have made
important inroads upon German posi-
tions south of the Ancre 1t is report
ed today that heavy counter-attacks
by the Germans near the Stuff re
doubt and the Hessian trench and
declares that division of the new
creditably in beating off the Germans.
FRENCH PUSH ON
FURTHER AND FURTHER.
Further down the line toward the
Somme the French have resumed
their attacks, pushing further the
wedge into the German lines in the
region of Banrourt. The new
French advance, according to Paris,
was secured by means of hand gre
made operations north of Bancourt
The British lost heavily in the
fighting on the Somme front dur
the casualty lists, which show the
casualties on all fronts dlring the
month to have been nearly 100, 900
officers and men, or at the rate of
more than $500 day.
HULGARS TOO ARE
HAVING SUCCESS.
In Macedonia the Bulgarians re-
port success in the Kaimakcalan
region near the Servian border,
where a trench of the main Ser
Wan position was captured after a
Servian attack had been repulsed,
~ important changes in the situa-
elsewhere in Macedonia or in
C-SDrudja are announced.
Petrograd reports that there have
been no important happenings Ell
ther On the Russian front or in the
Caucasus.
SOMME SEES SOME
MORE HEAVY FIGHTING.
LONDON, Sept. 30.-Unusually
heavy fighting occurred yesterday on
the Somme front in consequence of
German ccunter-attacks. A division
of the new British army was engaged.
The official account follows:
During the night the enemy
shelled heavily our battle front south
of the Ancre. We consolidated the
German area won yesterday morning
at Destremont farm northwest of Le-
Sars. We improved our positions in
the Thiepval area.
Enemy counter-attacks were beat
en- off in the neighborhood of Stuff
redoubt and Hessian trench. The
fighting in this section yesterday was
very severe and our troops engaged
a division of the new army-showed
great endurance and resolution.
ga successful raid was made by a
London territorial battalion south of
Melville st. Vaast, where the enemy's
trenches were entered and prisoners
were taken"
AND THEY CALL THE
"AGE OF CIVILIZATIONS"
PARIS, Sept 30-The French
have made further progress north of
Rancourt by grenade attacks, accord
ing to the Official statement issued by
the war, office today.
The statement ollows:
"On the Somme front we made
some progress north of Rancourt by
means Of grenades. There was inter
mitten artillery fighting in different
sectors north and south of the
Somme. Everywhere else the night
was calm. Bad weather continues"
LONDON. Sept. S0.-British losses
in September we're at the rate of more
than $500 a day. The casualties on
all fronts reported in this month
were: Officers, 5,439; men, 114,110.