IMPORTANT GAINS ON THE SOMME

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2876, 14 September 1916, Page 5

IMPORTANT GAINS ON THE SOMME

ALLIES' NEW "PUSH" IN THE BALKANS' BULGARS RETREATING SUCCESS OF RUSSO-RUMANIAN '■•■';'.'' OFFENSIVE By a lightning stroke'on the Somme, the French have wrested important trencli positions and very valuable fighting ground from tho Germans. Fifteen hundred prisoners were taken. Great events . are developing in the.Balkans, and the livliest interest is being .manifested) in the progress of tlio new offensive which' has been launched by the Allies on tho Struma front. The progress of the ■Allies, say tho ©sports, may ho slowed down by' natural obstacles, but tho idea seems to be, considering the lateness of the season, for a short, sharp, and decisive campaign, with the severance of the great Balkan railway, with the resultant-starvation of Bulgaria and Turkey'as the objective. The Russo-B.nmanian operations in Transylvania and on tho Bulgar western front aro balancing tbe score made by tho.Bulgars in'the Dobruja. Elsewhere tho war fronts are comparatively qniet. Senor Maurus, ox-Premier-of Spain, and l leader of the Consorvoti-ee, lias made a speech on the war situation as Spain which, has caused' a profound sensation. Ho points.to England and France as tho natural friends of Spain.