GERMAN ATTACK IN THE CHAMPAGNE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3007, 19 February 1917, Page 5

GERMAN ATTACK IN THE CHAMPAGNE

BRITISH CRUISER FIGHTS SEA RAIDERS BERLIN AND PARIS '~'.■. COMPARED AMERICAN DIPLOMATS SURPRISED DASHING ADVANCE ON THE ':• TIGRIS The enemy in Champagne ha s suddenly manifested some activity, and by exploding mines has been able to penetrate tho French" salient. . The Crown Prince is commanding this latest enterprise. A violent artillery duel is raging at present. Thcro is considerable patrol activity in the Woevre, and French successes are also reported from the Vosgcs and Alsace, 0 n the British front the raiders continue to harass tho enemy. Reports from Romo states that messages from Salonika indicate import aint happenings on the Macedonian front. The enemy's right wing—the Albanian sido of tho line—is reported to have been broken, and the Anstrians and Albanians dispersed with serious losses. The war at sea is still mainly confined to tho German piratical submarine blockade, of the.futility of which evidence is accumulating. Tho American Cabinet-is said to have decided iu favour of arming tho mere haut ship, a decision which has evoked a left-handed threat from Germany. An engineer from an American ship just arrived atßal timore relates that he saw a huge . flotilla of captured German submarines,; including-'the trans-Atlantic ■ commercial' U-boat Deutschland, the oaptaiu and crew of which, he : says, are now in gaol. The coll ective impressions' of Mr. Gerard's party on iho condition of Paris as contrasted with the wretched poverty of Berlin, the city they had just quitted, make a striking picture. Apparently, tho Americans were immensely surprised to ■■'. find that Paris \was so comfortably off? .'-'•■ ' A late message brings news of another advance by tho Bdtish on the Ancroj'and a scries of dashing advances on the IVres.