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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1916
Page
4
Allied forces seize key Athens locations including railway stations and the city hall while a royalist demonstration celebrates King Constantine and the Greek navy. Battleships Kilkis Lemnos and Averoff taken. Greek crews displaced as Paris and London pressure Greece to curb French actions.
Rome reports repeated Austrian assaults on Monte Pasubio and the Trentino front were checked by Italian forces. The night of Oct 15 and following morning saw enemy attacks repulsed. weather hampered artillery, with heavy mountain snowfalls noted.
Berlin reports attacks north of the Somme failed near Gueudecourt Sailly Fresnes and Mazan court. Near Gueudecourt our fire stopped the assaults. near Sailly and Fresnes hand to hand fighting continued. Our airmen downed six enemy planes, two by Captain Broelke. In Champagne Le Mesnil was repulsed and artillery duels raged in the Argonne and Meuse Verdun sectors.
Official dispatches report French capture of Sailly Saillisel area on the Somme front after repelled German counter attack. Romanian and Austro German actions repulsed in Transylvania. Somme air combats with five German planes downed. Cerna River fighting. Serbians stop Bulgarian counter attack. Russian front sees defeats and heavy counter offensives near Lemberg and Halicz.
The official Russian statement from Petrograd details night reconnaissance near the River Nevda, an ambush attack with four enemy killed including an officer, and captures of a machine gun and 60 prisoners near a border junction. It notes persistent fighting along eastern Romania and at Dobrudja with no overall shift, plus heavy cavalry clashes in Turkish Armenia and artillery strikes on Bolu.
The French war office says on the Somme front both sides bombarded intensely today. East of Belloy en Santerre the enemy launched two fresh attacks that were repulsed with heavy losses. German planes dropped bombs on Amiens but caused no damage.
British report describes bombardment of Neuville St Vaast Wytschaete and area northeast of Ypres. Artillery activity south of the Ancre. clear weather enabled extensive aerial reconnaissance and bombing of rail lines stations billets factories and depots. Several enemy aircraft were destroyed or forced down. one British plane lost. Macedonian front patrols active. front lines report little else.
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