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Show JRENCH AVIATORS V TAKE PART IN 56 j AERIAL FIGHTS I PARTS. Sfpt. ;s, noon. Frem-h pa- - trois approached the edijo of Combles, t on'the Somme front, last nicht. The official of-ficial statement issued Lore this nt'ter-, nt'ter-, noon says they found a great many dead Germans on the field and took a few j prisoners. South of the Somme there ( is active artillery fiehtinr?. French aviators enai;ed in fifty-six aerial fichts yesterdav. Four German aeroplanes were shot tiotvn. 1 The text of the announcement follows: I Xorth of the river Somme last niht passed in relative quiet. ! French patrols mailing their way ) to the southern boundaries of the village of C'oinbles found numerous (Vnniiu lrni on tho t'ioU. ThrR ilf;i-hiii.jit c.titun'il fiftooii (,nr-ir.un (,nr-ir.un iriMincrs, iiu'lmlin uno ufti-1 ufti-1 vor. i Sout li of t li t Souiino tlioro lins 1 Imhmi in ;i ri on m sci'torM t'nirly Ppirit-i Ppirit-i .l iirtillt-ry t'ihi in;. Ili'whrrtt t lnT, (WIS iH'i'll til ttT tllitlOll I I'llU-J'nliinlili. I'llU-J'nliinlili. On tho Stimmo front rriMtch flvin-t flvin-t ors tin rin thi- tin v of SiMitrmbor J- oiii;:ii;itl in :i total of fil'lv six ji im in I i'o 111 1 s. Ati a roMilt. of tliis II i t i it v, l our onoiuy noroplunos oro ilost rovotl, wliilo four o thorn w oro soon fulling ditsubloil. 1-Voiuli aviators onaoil in throwing hotnbs also havo u!i)lnyod roat not i vit v alony; tho on( iro I front. In lioTiuin ono of our Jlior.s I has thi(i n (low n four bombs on j tlio Imrra. in tho forost of Ilau-tluilot. Ilau-tluilot. In tlio ropion of tho Soinnm a tiotaoliniout of sixtoon I'li'in-h aviators avi-ators ha-s himibanloil tho railroad st at ions of Fins, Kpohy ami Iioso-lot Iioso-lot anil also t ho aviation ground at llorvillv, Vpon thoso four points I'ihty sliolls of 1-0 tnillimotors worn j III row a down. To tho iiuitlu-ast of ! Sispons nn ainnuinii ion ttnt ton of I tho ciioinv rpooivod twenty sholls. ' I Alo dtirin;.; tlio nifjht of Soptom- bor Jl! t a Ih.'iH-h dirii;iMo bom- ; b:irdod tho railroad trarks in tho I region of Mari'oinj;, outhwost of t ( aathrai. |