Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-10-18 | Page 2 | French Occupy Group of Houses in Stronghold

FRENCH OCCUPY GROUP OF HOUSES IN STRONGHOLD PAR IP, Ct. 17. 12:30 p. m. Another croup of houses in the village of tfalHy-SailUscl, tfalHy-SailUscl, ou the Sommc front, was captured cap-tured last night by the French, the war office announces. A strong German counter-attack was repulsed. The statement state-ment follows: "North of the Pom me we occupied a new group of houses in tfailly-Saillisel. The enemy this morning delivered a violent vio-lent counter-attack and succeeded in penetrating a portion of our front line. An immediate counter-attack drove him out. The number of prisoners made yes-terdav yes-terdav in the course of our counter-attack was ninety. We captured two machine guns. "South of the river Eomme a rresh attack at-tack on our positions east of Berny-en-S-anlerre was broken by our fire."