14 OCTOBER 1916, Page 1
If we turn to the Western front, though there has
been nothing so sensational as the Italian triumph, the latest news is very good. The French were able to announce on Wednesday that on the day before they had made a most successful attack south of the Somme between Bemy-en-Santerre and Chaulnes, had taken the hamlet of Bovent, and now hold the northern and western outskirts of Ablain- court, and most of the woods of Chaulnes. They inflicted great loss upon the Germans and close on fifteen hundred prisoners were taken.
