Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-11-11 | Page 9 | Germans Report Local Attacks on Their Lines

GERMANS REPORT LOCAL .ATTACKS ON THEIR LINES BKRLIX. Nov. 10, by wireless to Say-vitle. Say-vitle. Local attacks on the German lines in the Somme region, near Gueudecourt and Les Eoeufs. and a more formidable attack by the French on both sls of Sailly are reported in today's official statement. The attacks were generally unsuccessful, t hp assaults in the Sailly sector being repulsed in some instances in hand-to-hand fighting. Hostile loca! attacks near Eaucourt La Abbaye and Pressoire aiso were repulsed by the Germans. French aerial activity Is reported, seventeen hostile machines having been shot down by the Germans in numerous engagements. The statement follows: Conditions for operations being favorable, fa-vorable, firing activity was lively on both sides at many points along the front. in the Somme sector hostile local attacks were delivered without success near ftaucourt l.a Abbaye. Gueudecourt and Les Boeufs and at Pressoire. Stronger French forces advanced on both sides of Sailly., but. were repulsed. During the day airmen were very active and continued activity by moonlight during a clear night. In numerous aerial engagements we shot down a total of seventeen aeroplanes, the majority in the fiomnio region', on both rides of the river. Our air squadrons repeated their effective ef-fective ttai-ks upon railroad stations and troop and ammunlt ion depots, especially in the sector between Peronne and Amiens.