SOMME VICTORIES FURTHER DEVELOPED.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2889, 29 September 1916, Page 5

SOMME VICTORIES FURTHER DEVELOPED.

\ —■■■■■" i - ! i - NEW ZE At ANDERS AGAIN INACTION'. 1 . THE GREEK MUDDLE 1 BEPORTED CONVERSION OF "."..".m . VENIZELOS bEFINES HIS • . POLICY Following up their signal Successes at Gambles and Thiepral, ft a [Allies on tie Somme have further improved their position, The' British have pushed on, while the French, repelling heavy attacks by the enemy, have inflicted very severe losses. The Germans wore trapped in Combles, just as they were about to evacuate the position, by a dense artillery barrage, which, plarifel beyond, cut tham off ■ from their main force lite a wall of death. In the Balkans, the Greek muddle seems to be clearing slightly. • King Constantine appears to have been converted to the view ffiat the fortunes/ of his country can better be established in co-oporation with the Entente Powers than undor the present shiftless policy of make-believe neutrality. 'A Greek cruiser and another destroyer have slipped away from their own fleet and joined the Allies' in furtherance of the natio'nal movement. Events within the enemy's country are to an increasing degree, refleoting the trend of the war, and the German Chancellor is faced with a stormy session of the Reichstag. i ' ' ,