NEW ZEALANDERS AGAIN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2885, 25 September 1916, Page 7

NEW ZEALANDERS AGAIN

Another Zeppelin has been Drought. down in flames in England, > and it is thought possible that ono of her consorts shared the same fate. . Thero is good news from nearly all the theatres of war. On the Somme front the British have notably extended their advance towards Bapauroe, on one sector of the front pushing forward over a ' distance of a mile, and tho French are closing iiv upon Comblos. Thrilling accounts aro given of tho part played by Zealanders in ':' the lator stages of the big battle. Tremendous havoc is being wrought ■\ by the Allied batteries, and also by air squadrons;.-the latter attacking ivith splendid effect the enemy's communications and. war faotorics in' bis homo territory. In the Eastern theatros the Russians are reported to bo irresistibly closing in upon Halicz, and it is said ' . that Goneral Bimsilofi! has resumed the offensive simultaneously at ten' different points. News from Greece declares that King Constantino's authority and prestige have practically gone, and that the revolutionary movement is rapidly gaining head. (The walls of Athens are placarded with demands for tho King's abdication. Meantimo the Allies have made some further progress on the northern Greek frontier, and news concerning the Rumanian fronts is also favourable, r though it.discloses no sensational development. In the Dobruja. the • ' enemy forces are now entrenching after an extended retreat from the .line reached at tbe.heiglit of their offon6ivq. '