GERMANS' FURTHER ADVANCE CHECKED

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2807, 27 June 1916, Page 5

GERMANS' FURTHER ADVANCE CHECKED

, THE, RUSSIAN DRIVE CONQUEST OF BUKOWINA A heavy, and sustained bombard teent riglit along 1 the British lino from the La Basses Canal to the So in me—so heavy and sustained that the Germans'devote a special communique to tl\e fact—ia mported today. Is it the long-expected Big Pusli in the West? The alnswer must be left for subsequent events. Meanwhile the greatest battle in history /—tie German attack on Verdim—has reopened ftvith inqrediblet fury. For fifty liours German shells of largo calibre have rained down 'upon three odd miles of front; massed waves of German infantry have surged to and fro, welled up, and flowed over Fort Thiamont, only* to bo dammed np by the desperate resistance o£ the French at tlio village of Floury. The carnage on the German side lias been, frightful,, and the gain—7oo'yards! . On the Eastern front the Russian tide is Etill pressing'westward and south-westward. The conquest of Bukowina, is com- i plete, and in the completion thereof more prisoners and great booty have been added to the profit sido of the Muscovite war ledgesr. The Germans in the' Vilna Te'gion havo m fide -unsuccessful attacks on the Russian line at Smorgoni, but these demonstrations are not being taken seriously by the Russians. In the Trentino the Italians continue to develop their counter-offensive. There is l a promise of developments in the Balkans; The Bulgarians are concentrating on the Greek frontier, ■while the Allies have been bombarding the 'Bulgarian port'of Dedieagatch and other coast towns. The Entente Powers are giving Greece finan- i cial assistanco 'to' tide the country over tho period between now a»d the elections. ■