PROGRESS AT IRLES AND PUISIEUX-AU-MONT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3022, 8 March 1917, Page 5

PROGRESS AT IRLES AND PUISIEUX-AU-MONT

OPINIONS ON THE RETREAT PRESIDENT" AND THE ' . CHINA'S OPPORTUNITY " tK : \ ' - '. .Further progress is reported from tho British* front on thn Ancre to-day, as the result of pressure at Irles and Puisinex-au-Mont. . French critics differ from the British opinion that the German retirement is voluntary, and insist that it is an. enforced retreat resulting from tho sustained pressure on their front. Heayy fighting is reported from the Meusq 3 and the suggestion is put for- . ward, that the German Crown. Prince-is about to try his luck with . another blow in, this, Verdun, region. Colossal preparations of the Russian armies on the Eastern front lave given a Berlin newspaper cause for'depressing prophecy as to tho German prospects in,-the event of simultaneous blows by tlio Russian armies at all points. The demoralised e'tate'.of the defeated Turkish army in Mesopotamia, coupled with a recrudescence of activity on tho Itnssian front iu the Caucasus, raises tho question 'of German assistance, and its probability, which is considered tangible. There are no material (developments in the situation in America. Tho "filibusters" ■who did so much harm lo the national cause in the Senate aro now busily engaged in explaining , to an indignant public that tho deadlock occurred in spite of ?hcm. '