HUGE CAPTURE OF MEN AND BOOTY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2792, 9 June 1916, Page 5

HUGE CAPTURE OF MEN AND BOOTY

ENEMY HOTLY PRESSED , BATTLE OF VERDUN GERMANS CLAIM CAPTURE OF FORT VAUX THE NAVAL. BATTLE ' FIRST LORD' OF THE ADMIRALTY . REVIEWS RESETS \ LORD KITCHENER'S DEATH .With the excitement over tlio great naval battle and ttho tragic death of the British War Minister now subsiding, important events in land theatres of the war are obtruding themselves. The Russian operations on the Southern European flank are developing into a brilliantly concerted drive westward, and the toll of captured men and booty has now reached a staggering figure. The enemy is being so vigorously pressed that he is ' unable to transfer forces from one part of tho front to another to adjust his line to meet tho exigencies of the situation; while the capture of guns • intact affords another indication of the precipitancy of the enemy's withdrawal. In Asia Minor, too, tho .Russians are developing their successful advance, although the Turks claim to have scored in the Caucasus region. There is no news from the Italian theatre. In the.Western theatre there is increased activity on the British front, while the enemy claims to have captured Fort Vaux, at Verdun. The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Balfour) has delivered an important speech on tho results of the naval battle, and beside his convincing points a speech by tho Kaiser at Eiel is a. ridiculous farrago of'nonsense. Tho body of Colonel Fitzgerald, the late Lord kitchener's Chief-of-Staff, has been washed ashore at the Orlojeyspathetic, evidence from the sea. • V . '