ADVANCE IN ALSACE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2492, 21 June 1915, Page 5

ADVANCE IN ALSACE

INVESTMENT OF METZERAL BIG IOYEIEM OF GEMAN TROOPS PLANS FRUSTRATED BY THE BRITISH ITALIAN TOWNS SHELLED LIGHTHOUSES BOMBARDED LIEUT. WARNEFORD KILLED Further light is thrown in tho week-end messages upon tho continued development of the Allied offensive in the Western theatre. Apart from their recent gains north and south of Arras, the French are pressing forward in tho valleys of tho Northern Vosges, on the approach to Colmar, and a dispatch from Sir John French states that tho British are in possession of tho whole of the German front-line trenches east of Ypres and have retained some of tho trenches lately won north of La Bassee. A Dutch report declares that German reinforcements totalling 400,000 have recontiy been absorbed in strengthening those sections of the German front against which the AngloFrench assaults havo been chiefly directed. 111 Galicia the Russians liav» fallen.back to new positions covering Lemberg on the west, but south and west along the Dniester have at a number of points driven back the enemy with loss. Recent activities of British submarines ill the Dardanelles and Sea of Marmora are reported to havo caused intense alarm at Constantinople. A Paris newspaper states that Turkey is about to cede territory to Bulgaria, but other reports declare that Bulgaria has given Rumania a written assurance of friendly neutrality, and that the latter country is ready for immediate action against Austria. Lieutenant Warneford, the .heroic Canadian .aviator, who lately earned tho Victoria Cross by destroying a Zeppelin, was killed while testing a. new aeroplano near Paris.