FRONTIER VILLAGES CLEARED
; Speoulation. is rife as to tho motive and object of a. heavy German concentration in Southern Alsace. Experts are divided in opinion as to whether the enemy meditates an aggressive stroke or is apprehensive of a French advanco towards the Rhine. Favourable accounts arc given of tho campaign iu Rumania. Enemy bridges on the Danubo have been carried away, and tho Allies are said to be advancing on the whole front. 'I ffelatest reports in hand, however, mention ah Allied reverse on one part of tho Sereth line. An improving situation is ■.eported in Greece The British Blockade MinIsTei- (Xord Robert Cecil) claims that tho enemy countries aro being c'iieetuaHy prevented from obtaining supplies from ovorseas by way of neighbouring neutral countries. It is now Thought that tho German raider in tho South Atlantic may be the Moewo. An unconfirmed German report asserts that one of tho raider's prizes, tho Yarrowdale, has reached a German port with a cargo of captured goods and a large number of prisoners. A British explosives factory near London has been destroyed, with some 3oss of life. It is stated that tho output of munitions will not be affected. It is announced that an "Australian transport, tho Port Nicholson, was sunk, but that her troops wcro safely landed. I
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2983, 22 January 1917, Page 5
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217FRONTIER VILLAGES CLEARED Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2983, 22 January 1917, Page 5
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