Show I MILLION MEN CLASH IN SOMME I j A J J BA BATTLE IN I T RY RA RAGING IN Huge Hue Armies Engaged Along Mile 40 Front in France With Guns Roaring pr a Every Death eath Dealing n ns Agency Known to Man in Use By s IDl International News Nerd Scene to The Telegram PARIS Nov 16 More Mo More e than a a. million men and guns are engaged along the forty miles of Somme front in n the most sa savage g f fighting the world has ever known i While these gigantic armies roll backward and forward over the shell scarred d field guns more ponderous than ever seen before th thunder in the rear po pouring ring their curtains of steel Behind the I fighting lines are tens of thousands of reserves ready t to into th the bloody maelstrom as their comrades die or fall from exhaustion Every d death ath dealing agency known to twentieth century warfare I is in use Gas and tear shells spread death and suffering in their most dreadful forms High above the th clash of steel and the roar of bombs aeroplanes skim the sky engaged in battle among themselves themselves themselves them them- selves or in in dropping explosives upon the he trenches beneath Tremendous losses mark this new stage of the grand enga engage engagement e engage ment ment of the Somme The field is thick with corpses some of which I h h. h xe ue lain for pr days bite wounded t 4 c oets ko Ee Eek k H PARIS PARtS Nov Counter 16 Counter attacks south of or il the Che Somme S-omme river again last night gave gave the French complete possession of or the village of or Pressoire The war wal office tod today y stated that the portion of or the village occupied by the Germans Gennan's yesterday has been recaptured by the French By Br AssocIated Iress to The Tel Telegram LONDON Nov No 16 16 King King George to today ay telegraphed congratulations to Gen Sir Douglas Haig British commander in France upon the great success success success suc suc- cess of the last few days reflecting credit on all ranks s. s General Halg Haig replied replied re reo re- re plied with a message of thanks I I During the night there was considerable enemy shelling of our battle battlefront battlefront battlefront front north and south of ot the says a statement nt from the war var office toda today Otherwise there is nothing to report 87 By International N Ned Nevra S Service nIe to lo The Telegram BE BERLIN LIN Nov 16 Via Sayville German Sayville-German German troops have recaptured the eastern part of Sailly Sailly-Saillisel from the French and have carried by storm stormI French trenches on the northern edge edg of or the forest of ot St. St Pierre the I war office a announced today The Th great battle between the British and along the river due west of Bapaume continues The official report states that the British are still attacking but that up to date all the assaults have been re re- pulsed Eight officers officer and prisoners were captured by the Germans South of f the Somme river the lines are unchanged The Germans have bombarded Nancy as a measure of or reprisal The text of the communication follows Western front Army front Army group of Prince Rupprecht Separate British attacks attacks at at- tacks on the Serre Mailly-Serre road to the eastward of this sector and also southeast southeast southeast south south- east of Beaumont failed in fighting with hand grenades Stronger attacks launched against our position at Grand Court broke down under our fire In In hard fighting from house to house we have wrested from the French the he eastern part of Sailly During the evening the Seventy Seventy- third regiment of Hanoverian fusiliers stormed tenaciously defended French trenches on the northern edge of or the forest of St. St Pierre Eight men and five machine guns were captured by us The Tho combats of Wednesday in the sectors of Ablaincourt and Pressoire left the lines un changed Thirty nine Belgians were vere victims of the fhe hostile air all attack upon apon Os Os- tend lend As a a. measure of reprisal against the bombing of or peaceful villages Nancy IH has s been shelled by us Ostend is a Belgian town within the German Jerman lines Nancy is In France within the French lines The German erman war office issued the following supplemental statement this evening Western Vestern front During the tile afternoon there were ere attacks by the British on both sides of t the Those on the so southern thern bank have already failed tRUed Near Sallly Sailly and Pressoire fighting continues The foregoing statement evidently refers to fighting that has taken place today as distinct from the fighting of ot yesterday and last night reported inthe in la lathe the earlier report |