BRILLIANT STROKE BY THE FRENCH.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2830, 22 July 1916, Page 9

BRILLIANT STROKE BY THE FRENCH.

GERMAN LINE IN DANGER. AUSTRIAN r ARMIES ■ "BROKEN. f THE AFTERMATH OF VOLHYNIA. " '■'' GOVERNMENT ■ DISCUSSION.A long dispatch to-day throws an, interesting and encouraging light on a brilliant stroke by General Foeli, " the French on the Sdrome. By. teariflg a five-mile .gap in the German line)'tie four-to-one pressure on the British angle at Longuevale and Belville has be.en.re-. lieved,"-and 1 now that the British line.js approximately level with the French, tho .German front is under a new menace, which the enemy, we are told, has. realised." On the Russian front the aftermath.of the Ens-' sian-victory is revealed in the broken and dispersed ' condition of the Austrian armies, which are now beyond aid from the Germans, • themselves very hard pressed. The strategy of the .Russians is bewildering to the Germans, who know not whence the next blow will come. There' are reports of a.sea fight in the Baltic, with, indications of a German defeat at. the; hands of the Russians. Mr. Asquith. has characteristically evaded a discussion of the Dardanelles and Mesopotamian campaigns by promising Commissions, but enough has been said in both Houses—as is told to-day—to show that' negligence and incompetence are chargeable to some authority, and, as Mr. Lloyd' George, the new War Minister, frankly says, it will be the duty of the Government to sees out and punish those responsible. _