BRILLIANT SUCCESS OF THE FRENCH

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2878, 16 September 1916, Page 9

BRILLIANT SUCCESS OF THE FRENCH

LE PRIEZ FARM CAPTURED TEST MOBILISATION IN ■ - HOLLAND EXTRAORDINARY CREDIT FOR : ; DUTCH NAVY GREEK CABINET CRISIS BULGARS EE-OCCUPY KAVALA . . / . 1 •.. ~ The French are actively following up their brilliant achieve- \ ment in piercing the enemy line ,on a section of the Somme front, and already • have done something to widen the. breach. Capturing a strong position east of Combles, they have isolated that place, • and their, gains as a whole are fully maintained. They have made some further progress also south of the Sommo. In Macedonia the Allies have gained ground in the Vardar valley and further west, and reports point to, an. increasing stir of battle. The Austrians are still retiring in Transylvania. There are further reports of coh- , sulfations between important, personages in the different countries of-the Teutonic group, and a,Balkan offensive against the Allies is said-to have-beeii 'discussed. but the gcineral tendency, of the news is to' show that the-Huns are badly at a loss, while the Allied offen- , sive is rapidly growing-in scope and power. There is not much detail new 6 of the Russian tnain campaign, but General Pau, who has been visiting the. Eastern, theatre, is . said to ' have' returned to France, convinced that striking Russian victories are imminent. Particulars are given, of the honours awarded to the higher officers of the . Navy .who- were engaged-in the Jutland battle.