Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1916 — ALLIES ARE NEAR TOWN [ARTICLE]

ALLIES ARE NEAR TOWN

BRITISH CAPTURE POSITIONS 800 YARDS FROM L’ABBAYE. ■ ■■ : j ; ■ ■ , ■ France Says Germans Attacked in Ver> dun Region, But Were Repulsed— Berlin Claims Successes. London, Sept 29. —The capture of the village of Eaucourt L’Abbaye, within sight of the outskirts of Bapaume, is held imminent here, following the capture of positions within 800 yards of the village. ' East of Eaucourt L’Abbaye 2,000 yards of German trenches were captured,' according to official war statements, and the advance brought the British still closer, posts being established- west and southwest of the village. The British forces hate captured the greater part of a German redoubt north of Thiepval, which overlooks the northern valley of the Ancre, taking nearly 600 prisoners, according to the official statement from general headquarters. French artillery carried out a violent cannonading along the entire Somme front, according to the French war office statement, and supported an advance of British troops at various points between Martinpuich and Guedecourt. A battalion of srman infantry, the British statement says, was caught on the march by British artillery and successfully shelled. A strong German attack was directed during the night against the Thiau-mont-Fleury front in the Verdun sector, but resulted in a sanguinary defeat, according to the French official report. Berlin, via London, Sept. 29. —German troops victoriously repulsed the Anglo-French forces on a greater part of the battle front between the Ancre brook and the River Somme, says the official statement issued by the German army headquarters staff.