FRESH GAINS ON THE SOME

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2871, 8 September 1916, Page 5

FRESH GAINS ON THE SOME

ANOTHER GERMAN .GENERAL DISMISSED MYSTERIOUS NEW ARMY ; HINTS OF A NEW MOVE FOR RUSSIA A ZEPPELIN SECRET " J SPYING CAR A bitter battle- is raging on tho French front oil the feomme, ' while on the British front the pressure is being maintained. I'rcsh gains are reported on both fronts. The Paris correspondent of tho "Now York Times," after a visit to the Somme front, gives his plain and candid opinion that in the last big two-days' battle the Germans wero soundly thrashed —something for tho German-Ameri-cans to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. ■ Tho "Morning 1 Post's" correspondent at Petrograd speaks vaguely of "a mysterious new army which, charged with a special mission, is going to participate in some move to help the Russians, and also refers to a reorganisation of the Russians' foreign munition supplies, which will add 50 per cent to the driving power of the Muscovite Colossus. Meanwhile, the Russians arc continuing their succcssful advance in Galicia and the Carpathians, and, with the assistance of British armoured cars, are systematically driving the Turks in Asia Minor • westward. In the Balkans the Rumanian official communique today states that tho southern frontier is being steadily hold against the Bulgar-German offensive; there is great artillery on tho Franco-British-Serbo .front,-while in Albania and Epirus the Italians are developing thoir offensive. There is little news from the Italian front, whers, 'in their high altitudes, our -Allies have felt tho first snow of the coming winter. The British investigation into the circum- , stances surrounding the last big- Zeppelin raid have disclosed tho ' ' purport of what is referred to as the "mystery car," an observation attachment dropped to about 300 yards from the ground, from a Zeppelin' in the clouds.