Berlin newspapers publish a statement from "competent military authorities saying: the Anglo-French drive on the Somme has been halted by the exhaustion of the entente troops and their heavy losses and by unfavorable weather." The statement says:
"After the tremendous losses sustained by the British and French on November 6, when they employed six British and four and one-half French divisions without success in an attempt to break our front between Le Sars and Bouchavesnes, they have been unable to drive forward for large attacks their exhausted and decimated troops over ground made impracticable by rain. All attempts have been stifled immediately by the fire of our artillery and machine guns, and only south of the Somme, near Presse, did the French obtain insignificant local successes. Attacks launched repeatedly on Wednesday in St. Pierre-Vaast wood, although continued until late in the night, were crushed by the tenacious resistance of the German troops. With the clearing of the weather, the artillery became more active, but the British and French were unable to make a general attack." 