30 SEPTEMBER 1916, Page 1
On Wednesday the British and French advance continued with excellent
results. The total number of prisoners taken on Monday and Tuesday was about five thousand. The correspondent of the Times says that since the beginning of July sixty-five thousand German prisoners have been captured on the Somme. A regular feature of the fighting now is our complete supremacy in the air. Few German airmen venture over our lines. Our airmen, on the contrary, mot only infest the air over the German armies, but swoop low along their trenches-and moving columns, pouring machine- gun fire into them.
