END OF GREAT RETREAT ANNOUNCED

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2559, 6 September 1915, Page 5

END OF GREAT RETREAT ANNOUNCED

, — ♦ ; : ;'' : NEW LINE ALMOST READY • GRODNO IN SUMS ■' ; HOAR OF THE GUNS IN THE WEST . NINTH DAY OF EFFECTIVE ' BOMBARDMENT' .PEACE PROPOSALS' STRANGE RUMOURS FROM , AMERICA Two items, in to-day's news from the great war theatres-arrest the' attention —first, Grodno has been evacuated, and tlie Russian retirement is about ended, the armios now being manoeuvred' to the - "positions: which, it is officially;. stated; will put the enemy at a disadvantage; second, there has been nine days of. effective artillery fire ' along the whole of the Allies' front in the West, a significant pre- . lude,- judging from tho tactical sequence of 'tlio battles of this great • iionflict. There is 1 a report from .Vienna, asserting that the Austrianarmies whioh have been co-operating with the Germans.in the great .offensive in Poland: have been t-umud towards Serbia-, and-that the . • : Germans, will now liold the Eastern' line themselves. The Italians have scored further, successes in-their mountain war with the Austrians. There are no fresh developments in the Dardanelles, But recent events are said to have disturbed tho complacency of German military experts; a'raiding squad has landed from ' a British, submarine with some dynamite-and returned safely after a business excursion into tho enemy's country. The news from. America to-day is full of extraordinary rumours of; German peace- proposals, rumours which are : Ecouted by the British Press.- The Paris "Figaro," bursting to tell ' all about the British; Admiralty's war oii- the German submarines, . ; almost lets the cat out of the bag with, its gleeful- hints of good ' '"catches"- by fishermen; ' Some of the hillmen in the 1 Indian North- •'- West are giving trouble—tho Bunervals again, who were sharply .; . dealt witli some days ago.. - : '.V-'fi' : iVu-V..' i ■ ' ■'