BRITISH LINE MOVES ON 45-MILE FRONT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3032, 20 March 1917, Page 5

BRITISH LINE MOVES ON 45-MILE FRONT

THREE TOWNS AND SIXTY VILLAGES CAPTURED FALL OF PERONNE FRENCH LINE ADVANCING ON The best, news lor owns » dav comes from ibi Brnisb front in fho Western theatre. Advancing ou a front of fotlx-fivo miles, tio British, in the space of twenty-four hours, have penetrat.od the enemy's lino at some places to a. depth of 10 miles, taking the towns of Poronne, Cbaulncs, and Neslo, and sixty villages besides. Tho cavalry patrolg ;iro out in advance. Kino weather favours tho advance, the ground is hardening, and tins <slan ot the troops is magnificent. On the French front, also, an advance has been mado in (.ho region of Roye and 'Novon, substantial ground being gained. Maude's brilliant advance on tho Tigris is beiug cncrgolicallT pressed, and lh<> defeated Turks, essaying a stand ou a. strong position, have, heen ousted from it, and their straggling rearguards ba.ve lost their organisation. A British proclamation in Bagdad announces the restoration of Ibc people's liberties, and invites (representations of tho eitvY. population to co-opera.to with fho Britisli political officers in tho gov. crnmont of affairs. Tho Russian a.dvanco in Asia, Minor is steadily maintained, and Van has now beau occupied. News from Petrograd shows that l.ho now Government i« taking a strong hold of affairs, and in a. striking manifesto, declaies its allowance In tho Allied catiso and pledges its powers lo co-oporato iu tho destruction of Prussian militarism. Tho Tsar is understood to have been sent to Iho Crimea; and tho Tsarina, to Ivieff. Tho pro-German influence of Iho Tsarina is so strongly suspected that tho roja) pair have been separated. Tho revolution, it, is staled, camo in tho very nick of timo. Prolopopoff, tho pro-German ex-Minister of tho Interior, was in the very act of negotiating, at Stockholm, a. secret peaco with tho enemy.