BAPAUME CAPTURED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3031, 19 March 1917, Page 6

BAPAUME CAPTURED

FRENCH ACTIVITY EFFORT TO CUT OFF RETREAT OF THE TURKS The news this morning from the West front is of a decidedly cheering character. The British have captured Bapaume, and have occupied fourteen villages over a sixteen-mile front. It is rumoured that Peronne has fallen, but so far this remains a rumour. The French, too, have been active and successful in the Champagne and east of the Meuse. In Macedonia the British have secured a railway station east of Lake Doiran, and the French hare been busy in ■ the neighbourhood of,Monastir. In Mesopotamia a wing of General Maude's army is endeavouring to reach Khanikin before the Turkish army now retreating from the can get to the place, in which event the Turkish troops mu st either surrender or be forced , into th| desert. China has finally broken off with Germany, and the Legation officials have been handed their passports. Hostile aeroplanes have paid a visit to England, but do not appear to have done much damage. The French succeeded in bringing down a Zeppelin that had ventured near Paris. There are no submarine victims reported, but a British destroyer of an old type struck a mine in the Channel, and sank. Twenty-eight men are reported missing-