WEEK-END BATTLE ON THE SOMME.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2913, 8 November 1916, Page 5

WEEK-END BATTLE ON THE SOMME.

MAGNIFICENT DASH OF THE ALLIES ENEMY TERRIBLY CUT UP GREEK TREACHERY AMAZING DISCLOSURES DESPERATE FIGHTING IN ■ " RUMANIA French Press tributes to the success of the week-end-battle on the Somme stress the magnificent valour and dash of the Allied troops and the terrible losses sustained by the' Germans in the subsequent counter-attacks. The gains are important, both from their effect on the enemy' 6 morale and from their tactical value. Bad -weather has caused an interruption to the Italian advance on the Carso, and the victorious troops are being given a well-earned rest. On the Russian European front repeated onslaughts by the Germans havo. been hurled back. Desperate fighting continues on the Rumanian front, where the enemy is exerting his utmost efforts to gain his objective before the advent of winter, now rapidly advancing. Tho Rumanians have bad to give ground slightly in the Predeal Pass, but elsewhere the situation is full of promise- The latost Greek sensation is the discovery,' following upon a raid on the Greek deputy at the Piraeus, of documents proving beyond all doubt tho pro-German Greek clique's complicity in the revictualling of Gorman submarines. The Allies have .decided to temporise no longer with the Greek Government on the subject of tho latler's light warships, and the French flag is now flying from the Greek torpedo boats. ■