FRESH LAURELS IN FRANCE AND EGYPT.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2845, 9 August 1916, Page 5

FRESH LAURELS IN FRANCE AND EGYPT.

MOUNTED COLONIALS' SPLENDID DASH ANJD COURAGE. 1 TURKISH ATTACK A FIASCO. ATTEMPT TO RETAKE POZIERES. ! FIVE ATTACKS BY THE GERMANS. BRUSILOFF LAUNCHES A GREAT OFFENSIVE. Fresh glory in war lias Leon added to the Anzacs.j To-day's ■ dispatches give a thrilling account of the gallant fight by the Anzacs in defence of their newly-won trenches on tho Poziorcs plateau, whilo from quite a different battle-ground—tho desert country east of the Suez Canal—tho splendid work of tho colonial horsemen has evoked high compliments frqm tho British correspondent in Egypt (Mr. W. T. Massey), who acknowledges thqt the Australian ' Light Horso and tho New Zealand Mounted Rifles played an important part in securing the discomfiture of tho Turks, whoso attempt to attack the Canal has proved a complete fiasco. Reverting to the Wostern theatre: Sir Douglas'Haig reports five separato attempts by tho Germans to regain their lost positions on the Poziercs plateau —all repulsed, with heavy losses. The French on the Verdun front have recovered another portion of the village of Floury, and advanced another step on tho Thiaumont seotor. On tho Russian front, General Brusiloff is reported to have launched, a violent -general offensive on the wliolo of. his front..' Fierce fighting continues south of Brody. There has been a drastic cleau-up in the Austrian high com- ■ mand, the cashiered officers including General Pflanzer and the Archduke Josef Ferdinand. The Italans have initiated an offensive on the Lower Issonzo, and have already captured over 3000 prisoners.