SOMME SENSATION
' THE BRITISH; FRONT. EXTENDED ' SUCCESSFUL OPERATION REPLY OF ALLIES TO GERMAN : ■ PEACE NOTE . i- , SINAI CAMPAIGN TURKISH COMMUNICATIONS ; . MENACED The principal item of war news to-day concorns an important, extension of the British front in the Somme legion, which was suc- ' cessfully completed on Christmas day. According to the "Daily Telegraph," the Allies, are stating, in reply to the German Peace Note, that they cannot surrender their potential victory, and that peace would be a German peace nnless German militarism ■' had been first, broken. Practically identical statements were made by the Tsar in an . ' order issued to his Army and Navy on .December 25, the text' of which is published to-day. Apart from the extension of the' British \ : main front and a successful continuation of the. operations in which ' the Turks are being driven out of tho Sinai Peninsula, no important developments are reported in the war theatres.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2963, 29 December 1916, Page 5
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150SOMME SENSATION Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2963, 29 December 1916, Page 5
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