The sun., 1916-09-29
BRITISH DOMINATE
VALLEY OF ANCRE
Troops Take by Storm
Schwaben RedOubt Atop
Thiepval Ridge.
LINE TO EAST
|Germans Confirm Entente
Gains on SOmmc and Praise
Fighting Of Enemy.

LcYpoS. Sept 3s.-At last the British
have reached the top Of the Thiepval
rdse. at the northern End Of their
somme front. which for three months
I,hey have striven to attain. Gen. Haig's
troops stormed to-day the German works
Italled the Schwaben Redoubt. from
which the British guns can dominate the
whole northern valley OF the Ancre.
During the night the British lines also
Isdvanced at points on the line east Of
Irhiepvai. taking another step forward
toward Bapaurne. They are within
500 yards of Eaucourt lAbbaye. little
more than three miles southwest Of
Bapaume. IN the fighting Of the past
twenty-four hours the British have taken
800 German prisoners.
The Schwaben rcdoubt Is 500 yards
north OF Thiepval. 1t comprised an
u other Of the strongly fortified trench
mazes, strengthened with entanRlements,
concrete and armored machine gun en-
placements and warrened with dugouts
that the Germans Of the is0th Regiment.
which garrisoned Thiepval for months.
,.hax. 49,. - -
' "oP'"e " '"""e '"e
offences OF the ridge impregnable.
NJ MERCY Of brteish.
From IT the Germans in the Ancre vii
ages Of G%randcourt and st. Pierre
plVion ana the intervening trenches are
ra,tl,uIi., NJ ~ ,o.,. -. 49, -..ta
nun. II, ,os,ss,,or o,.,. -no..,.r,,,..
Iof q squee Gins Of their position, alorr
,id. from, hs ,w.., IN. -.
And the British salient 10 the nor,h ~
IArras
The French rested on their part OF
the Somme front, though the artillery
Ibonbarded German trenches. according
TO their statement. At Verdun they beat
back a German attack on the famous
IThiaumont- Fleury line.
The German statement o-day. how
lever, admits the French successes about
IRsncourt and Bouchavesnes and the st.
Pierre Vast wood. which the French an
bounced yesterday.
The British statement tonight says:
We attacked S~chwaben Redoub,
mos, of which is I'm our hands In The
last twenty-four hours I'm this area
1csrlv 500 prisoners were taken
The r.doub, occupies a ores, soo
. Yards nor,, of ThlepyaI and rpresents
4 lie highss, ground oil the Thiepyai
spur. With a fuil view over the north
.rn valley IT tho Ancre.
da;-l our ground and advanced our
l,,,, WIZ ~ou''e
L"sscs comparatively small.
III. ..,uor pr,,i.,
MOS ,hs small ur,,ish 49,. .,,p.a,
10 III, nris,re,s ,aion !, ~,
nu',"s 'he nisn' our ihc was ad-
,sheu al various points
Hst"nPu'ch ana Gueudecourt and
poS,s were estahished TO the west and
southwest 81 Eaucourt rAbbaye and
'hh'n SUI yaras OF 'hat village.
On Inc LETT OF our front our posi-
Soh was consolidated on the ridge
northeast 81 Thicpval. a battalion Of
enemy infantry with transport was
caught on the march by our artillery
And successfully shelled.
The Nghting in the past few days
hes been singularly economical. Dur
losses were small. not only relatively
20 the Importance Of our gains but
absolutely. our total casualties we're
rot more than twice the number OF
enemy prisoners taken. me division
which had a specially difficult task
slotted to II took AS many prisoners
g. it suffered casualties.
~. c.,-.
Tie German statement regarding the
tomne iighting says:
Between the Ancre and the Somme
the English and French enewed their
strong attacks after artillery prepara.
experiences. On the greater part of
lively suupor,ed nv ar,i,lsrv ANA .w,..
tors under command OF Gems. sixt Won
Arnin, Won Huegel and o Schenck.
VIGOROUSLY repulsed the enemy.
Near Thiepval ana to the east OF
Eaucourt rAbhaye a violent battle has
not yet come to a conclusion.
Especially violent were the attacks
repeated toward evening and deliy-
cred from the Morvai Bouchavesnes
Inc. These were made by the enemy
reeirdles' Of his %sanguinary losses
during the fret storming attack,
which failed completely. The enemy
succeeded In maintaining his hold on
snail trench sections northwest OF
Rancourt and east Of Boucha vesnes.
our aviators yesterday brought
do1n seven aeroplanes--four in the
sonme district. A small enemy
squadron. which appeared from over
pu'ch territory and returned In the
same direction. attacked Alost, fifteen
miles northwest Of Brussels. without
success
During the English bomb attack on
brussels fifteen houses were destroyed.
lhlrteen Belgians were killed and