GUNS ON THE SOMME PREPARING FOR THE ATTACK.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2846, 10 August 1916, Page 5

GUNS ON THE SOMME PREPARING FOR THE ATTACK.

.TERRIFIC FIRE ON THE < ' .GERMAN LINES. ■ ITALIAN: OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED.. SMASHING STROKE ON THE ISONZO. i — BRUSILOFF STRIKES. ANOTHER GAP IN THE ENEMY'S LINE. . From every great theatre- of the war to-day's dispatches are big with inspiring developments. After a comparative lull in the combined Anglo-French offensive on the Somme—during which the British advanced their line to tho Fozieres plateau and the French put in some effective work on tlie Verdun front—the Allied artillery is ■ . once moro booming in a terrific concert, heralding tho next phase of. the advance. The Germans are reported to ho uneasy, and puzzled as to tho cxact centre from which tho main blow will fall. The Italian offensive—not very much more than hinted at in yesterday's dispatch \- from Rome—has suddenly blazed forth into a. stupendous' attack on the Isonzo; the famous bridgehead at Gorizia, after an fire from tho new Italian mountain batteries, has been taken, and the . Austriaiis have retired to the eastern, Isonzo. The fall of Gorizia, whjch many times in the past has been reported to have been im- .: pinent, seems "now to he a moral certainty, and the Italian populace . are beiiagging their cities and parading tlie streets in patriotic processions. 'On the Russian front, General Brusiloff has delivered a smashing hlow on tho enemy's front, leaving a 16-mile gap in their line, and securing another huge bag of prisoners and booty. On the Suez Canal front, the British are olearing the battlefield at El Romani, while tlie cavalry i s harassing the Turkish rearguard.